Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Wayne County

I.N. Shepperd, circuit clerk, Monticello, Ky., is a native of Wayne County,
born November 11, 1824, and the fourth of ten children born to Silas and
Mary (Stone) Shepperd, viz: Ervin, James J., Fountain F., I.N., Sarah J.,
William S., Francis M., Thomas H., Margaret and Shelby.  Silas Shepperd, a
native of Virginia came to Kentucky with his parents and settled two miles
east of Monticello, Wayne County; he was a hatter by trade, and took part in
the war of 1812, but devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural
pursuits.  He was a son of Isaac Shepperd, also a native of Virginia.  Mary
(Stone) Shepperd, who was born in Virginia, was a daughter of James and
Margaret (Jones) Stone.  I.N. Shepperd received his education at the common
schools.  In 1851 he was elected to the Legislature by the Whig party and
served one term, when he acted as deputy county and circuit clerk until
1857.  He subsequently went to Washington City to accept a clerkship in the
treasure's department and remained until March 11, 1861, when he resigned,
and in September of the same year entered the Confederate army as
Quartermaster in the Forty-sixth Mississippi Regiment, holding the position
until the close of the war.  He then went to Georgia and engaged in the
lumber business about one year, when he returned to Wayne County, Ky., in
1866.  In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, but did not enter into active
practice of the legal profession until 1866.  In 1868 he went to Danville,
Ky., where he practiced law and assisted in the circuit clerk's office until
1872; he then again returned to Wayne County, where he was engaged in
practice until 1874, at that time running for county and circuit clerk of
Wayne County, in which he was defeated seven votes for county clerk and
elected circuit clerk by 350 votes.  In 1878 he was again a candidate for
county clerk, to which office he was elected.  He held both offices until
1886, when he was re-elected circuit clerk.  He is a Democrat in politics,
and is the oldest living made Mason in Wayne County.

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VA GA

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