1. January 9, 1805 (Tombstone inscription at Willow Mount Cemetery Shelbyville, Tennessee)
Robert Paine Shapard was born in Caswell County, North Carolina.
2. Shapard A Family History. The Shapard Family Association, 2004.
(Contains much information gathered from records throughout the Shapard family)
3. November 8, 1806 (Shapard A Family History, printed in 2004, pg 43)
Robert’s brother, Lewis Shapard, Jr., was born in Person County, North Carolina.
4. 1808 (Shapard A Family History, pg 44)
Robert’s sister, Martha Shapard, was born in Person County, North Carolina.
5. 1809 (Shapard A Family History, pg 44)
Robert’s sister, Thelia “Avilla” Shapard, was born in North Carolina
6. July 22, 1811 (Shapard A Family History, pg 43)
Robert’s brother, Thomas Paine Shapard, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina.
7. June 16, 1813 (Shapard A Family History, pg 39)
Robert’s mother, Martha Paine Shapard, died on June 16, 1813 in Tennessee. Robert was 8 years old.
8. April 11, 1814 (Wilson County Tennessee Marriage Bonds)
Robert’s father, Lewis Shapard, married Elizabeth Parrish on in Wilson County, Tennessee. William Parrish was the Bondsman.
Note: Elizabeth Strother was born circa 1767 in Franklin County, North Carolina. She married Henry Parrish circa 1787 in Franklin County, North Carolina. In 1793 they moved to Wilson County, Tennessee. They had 6 children; David Whitlock Parrish (b.1789 in Franklin Co. N.C., d. March 31, 1876 in Christian Co. KY., married Lucinda Hunt in 1813), Fanny (b. 1791in N.C., married Samuel R. Anderson Feb. 20, 1811 in Wilson Co. Tenn.), William Parrish (b.1792 in N.C., married Martha Davis Feb. 11, 1812 in Wilson Co. Tenn.), Jane Parrish B. 1802 in Wilson Co. Tennessee, married John Penticost Oct. 10, 1822 in Wilson Co. Tenn.), Martha W. Parrish (b. 1803 in Wilson Co. Tenn. d. 1880 in Miss., married Hobson Ferrell Dec. 12, 1822 in Wilson Co. Tenn.), Elizabeth Strother Parrish (b. 1807 in Wilson Co. Tenn., d. 1845 in Columbia, Lowndes Co., Miss., married David Richards Aug. 9, 1827 in Wilson Co., Tenn.). Her husband Henry Parrish died in 1811 in Wilson Co. Tennessee.
9. August 28, 1816 (Land Deed Geneology of Rutherford County, Vol. 3, doc. Pg 487, doc. number 496)
William Barfield sold to Joshua Harrison lot #19 in Murfreesboro containing a storehouse and 31 feet of frontage on the public square on August 28, 1816. Beginning on the public square 68 feet from the south west corner of said lot no. 19 near the corner of the store house on said lot and the south east corner of part of said lot conveyed by Bennett Smith to Alfred M___, thence with the public square east 31 feet 6 inches to stake, being the south east corner of lot no. 19, thence a north course with the division line of lot no. 19 and 20 the street commonly called High Street to the north east corner of said lot no. 19, thence west with said High Street 31 feet 6 inches, thence a south course to the beginning. Witness: Samuel P. Black, R.W. Cummins. Reg. 21 May, 1817.
10. September 26, 1816 (Shapard A Family History, pg 42)
Robert’s sister, Sophia, married Joshua Norman Harrison in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
11. Spence, John C. Annals of Rutherford County Vol. 1 & 2. Murfreesboro: Rutherford County Historical Society, 1991.
(Contains much information on early-day Murfreesboro, when roads were built, early settlers, events, etc.)
12. “The Town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee – 1812.” Rutherford County Historical Society, Publication Vol. 33 issue no. 6 (July/August 2004): page 2-8
(Contains a map of the square lots of the town of Murfreesboro and who owned them over time)
13. February 1, 1817 (Rutherford County Deed Book L, 1817-1819, Pages 1-3)
On 1 February 1817 Lewis Sheppard (spelling used in the record) entered into agreements with Abraham Statler, Charles Niles, and Joshua Harrison under the terms of which his sons would serve as apprentices and learn a trade in the process. James Sheppard, born on 11 April 1801, was apprenticed to Abraham Statler who was to teach him the trade of hatter. Booker Sheppard, born 28 February 1803, was apprenticed to Charles Niles to learn the trade of saddler. Robert P. Sheppard, born 9 January 1805, was apprenticed to Joshua Harrison "to be taught and instructed in the art of nailer" (a nail maker).
‘Lewis Sheppard and Joshua Harrison for Articles of Agreement – Articles of Agreement made 1 February 1817 between Lewis Sheppard formally of Smith County, Tennessee and Joshua Harrison of Rutherford County. That whereas said Lewis Sheppard has this day bound as an apprentice unto said Joshua Harrison, Robert P. Sheppard, his son, who was born 9 January 1805, until he shall come to the full age of 21 years, to be taught and instructed in the art of nailor. He is also to be taught to read and write and cipher through the rule of three and to furnish him with such clothing as shall be necessary, &c.”
(Signed) Lewis Sheppard
(Signed) Joshua Harrison
Registered: June 3, 1817
Note: from book Constructing Townscapes; Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee by Lisa C. Tolbert – Several saw mills had been constructed along the Stone’s River before Murfreesboro was established, thus, sawn lumber was available for town builders who moved quickly to cover log buildings with weather boarding. In addition to mills, one of the first industries in Murfreesboro was a nail factory owned by Joshua Harrison. Located on the Square, in a small one story cedar log shop of about 18 feet by 25 feet, “blank nails were cut from pieces of iron…each nail then taken separately, placed in a vice [and] a head hammered on them.” Harrison & Company sold their locally produced nails at 25 cents per pound but were soon driven out of business by merchant competitors who could afford to sell their imported nails at 15 cents per pound.
14. August 7, 1820 (Census for Rutherford County, Murfreesboro)
Thomas Shepard lives next to James Mitchell (possible brother or uncle of Parthenia Mitchell). Thomas is 45 y/o or older, 3 males 10 – 15 y/o, 2 males 16 – 18 y/o, 2 males 16 – 25 y/o, 1 female under 10 y/o. 1 female 26 – 44 y/o, no slaves. James Mitchell house has 1 male 10 – 15 y/o, 2 males 16 – 25 y/o, and one male 45 y/o or older, 1 female 10 – 15 y/o, 1 female 16 – 25 y/o and 2 females 45 y/o or older, there were 4 slaves. 3 people were engaged in agriculture and 2 engaged in manufacturing.
Note: This Thomas Shepard is NOT Lewis Shapard. Many genealogist claim that this is him in the census but, from all records, he is known as Lewis and not Thomas. Also the ages and number of youths does not match up and his wife had died by 1820.
Note: Parthenia’s brother, James was NOT James C. Mitchell of Rutherford County who married Francis Bedford on Jan. 3, 1821, and was a Judge and Representative of the state who moved to Rutherford County in 1820s.
15. August 25, 1820 (Land Deed Geneology of Rutherford County, Vol. 3, doc. Pg 139, doc. number 67)
John Crisp to Joshua Harrison for lot #65. This indenture made the 25, August, 1820 between John Crisp of Rutherford County and Joshua Harrison of the same place for a lot of land in the town of Murfreesboro…
16. Carter, Cullen T. History of the Tennessee Conference. Nashville: The Parthenon Press, 1948.
(Information on the Windrows Camp Ground, Murfreesboro church organization in 1820, Rev. Robert Paine, Annual Conferences, etc.)
17. Carter, Cullen T. History of Methodist Churches and Institutions in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: The Parthenon Press, 1956.
18. March 12, 1821 (Land Deed Geneology of Rutherford County, Vol. 3, doc. Pg 468, doc. number 358)
Joseph Sloss to Thomas S. Harris for deed. Rutherford County. I, Joseph Sloss of Rutherford County have sold unto Thomas S. Harris of the same place a certain tract of land whereon I now live containing 31 acres… [also sold mare, cows, sheep and furniture and beds]… This 12 March, 1821. Witness: James Shapard and Elizabeth Sloss
Signed: Jos. Sloss
NOTE: This was before James married Rebecca Sloss
19. January 24, 1822 (Land Deed Geneology of Rutherford County, Vol. 3, doc. Pg 41, doc. number 39)
Robert Lowing to Charles Niles for lot #80. This indenture made 24 January 1822 between Robert Lowing of Rutherfored County and Charles Niles of the same place for a certain tract of land lying in the town of Murfreesboro on its north boundary known by lot # 80, it being the property of Thomas Montague and which the aid Thomas by deed dated 26 December 1818 conveyed to the said Robert. Witness: George Oliver and Booker Shapard.
20. February 1, 1822 (Shapard A Family History, pg 42)
Robert’s brother, James Paine Shapard, married Rebecca Sloss in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
21. October 22, 1822 (Land Deed Geneology of Rutherford County, Vol. 3, doc. Pg 299, doc. No. 234)
William C. Emmit sold to Joshua Harrison on May 17, 1822 a tract of land on the north side of Murfreesboro - Lot no. 8 containing a brick house which was the former home of Mr. Emmit.
NOTE: the harrisons moved to a new house in 1822.
22. November 10, 1825 (Shapard A Family History, pg 42)
Robert’s brother, Booker, married Mary Clay in Pulaski, Tennessee.
23. December 8, 1825 (Shapard A Family History, pg 42)
Robert’s brother, William Booker Shapard, married Marjery Childress in Nashville, Tennessee.
24. December 25, 1825 (Tombstone inscription at the Old City Cemetery in Murfreesboro Tennessee)
Joshua Norman Harrison died and was buried in the Old City Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Note: Mr. Harrison must have been fairly wealthy, as the inventory of his estate covered 12 pages.
**Note: Joshua Harrison is who RP Shapard was apprenticed to as a nailer when he was 12 years old until he was 21.
**Note: Joshua was Robert’s Brother-in-law. Robert’s older sister, Sophia Shapard, married Joshua Norman Harrison on September 26, 1816 in Murfreesboro Tennessee. Joshua was born November 20, 1789 in Philadelphia, was a nail maker by trade, had nine children and died December 25, 1825 in Murfreesboro and was buried in the Old City Cemetery. Sophia died on March 3, 1855 in Murfreesboro and is buried in the Old City Cemetery. The children listed above; William J. was born in 1820 and Mary was born January 12, 1822.
Note: (From Rutherford Count Wills 1824-1827) One years provisions laid off to Mrs. Sophia Harrison. Conforming with an order of court issued January term 1826, appointing James Maney, Samuel P. Black and David Wendel, commissioners for the purpose of setting aside for Mrs. Sophia Harrison, widow of Joshua Harrison deceased, one years provision, do set apart for her as follows: 4 barrels flour, 100 lbs coffee, 300 lbs brown sugar, 20 loaf sugar, 2 barrels salt, 100 loads of wood, 300 lbs pork, 500 lbs beef, cash for marketing $60, 25 lbs picked cotton, 2 milk cows, 50 lbs mackerel, cash $25.00 for the purpose of ___ and making shoes, 40 barrels corn, sundry articles selected from the store by Mrs. Harrison for the use of herself and family, per statement subjoined, amounting to $36.00. Given under our hands, this 20th May, 1826. David Wendel, Saml P. Black
Note: (From Rutherford County Deaths and Estate Settlements, Vol 1, 1804-1849) Sophia Harrison, widow. William D. Baird, administrator. David Wendel appointed special guardian of minor heirs in regards to laying out the dower. James Maney, guardian for Eleanor Harrison, Martha Harrison and Patsey Harrison, minor heirs of Joshua Harrison. William D. Baird, guardian for Sarah Anne Harrison and Caroline Harrison, minor heirs of Joshua Harrison. John R. Wilson, guardian for Mary and William J. Harrison, minor heirs of Joshua Harrison. On February 19, 1835, William D. Baird, guardian for Mrs. Caroline Talifaro and Mrs. Sarah A. Cameron, heirs of Joshua Harrison, made a settlement with the court.
Old City Cemetery, Murfreesboro: Joshua Harrison, age 30 or 36, died 25 Dec. 1825; Sophia Harrison, mother, 24 Nov 1799-3 Mar 1858.
Note: Rutherford County Deeds, January 24, 1827, Thomas Nurin sold to Sophia Harrison a female slave named Patty age 38.
Note; From Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 420) Joshua Harrison is listed as having rent houses and businesses in the form of a store room (rented out at $25 in 1826 and $45 in 1827); Old dwelling and shop adjourning the store with certain repairs (rented out in 1826 for $12 and 1827 for $40); Shop occupied by Jernigan in 1826 (rented out at $18); Hatter shop occupied by Miller (rented out in 1826 at $18 and 1827 at $18). These rent houses brought in $174 to the estate of Joshua Harrison.
25. January 1826 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 8, pg. 344; Familysearch image 177)
Inventory and account of sales of estate of Corns O Flyn decd. Robert Sheppard and Alexander Lawrance $11.45.
26. April 22, 1826 (Rutherford County, Tennessee County Court Records, Familysearch image 96)
R.P. Shapard was on jury duty on case Stephen Cantrell & Co., vs John Allen. Jury found in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $272.10. Also on same jury was William Mitchell.
Note: See January 25, 1826 John W. Lowrey vs John Allen and Booker Shapard. Notice John Allen.
Note: R.P. Shapard was 21 years old in 1826.
27. 1827 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 402)
B. (Booker) Shapard is listed as being in Rutherford County in 1827 and was paid $45.
28. 1827 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 408)
A slave, named ‘Marina,’ of Louisia, Peterson and Benjamin Warren was hired out to Sophia Harrision for $11.00
29. 1827-1828 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 505, 507)
W.D. Baird guardian of Sarah A. Harrison report listing payments to Nancy and Mary Banks for tuition; Mrs. Sophia Harrison for 2 years board $100; R.P. Shapard for articles of clothing - $31.57
W.D. Baird guardian for Caroline Harrison report for 1827-1828 listed payments to Miss Banks for tuition; R.P. Shapard for articles of clothing - $19.34. Recorded Feb. 16, 1829.
30. January 17, 1827 (Rutherford County, Tennessee County Court Records, Familysearch image 121)
William Mitchell, Sr. is released from double payment of taxes on 1800 acres and 13 black poles for the year 1826.
31. January 30, 1828 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 334)
R.P. Shapard on jury of case State vs. Christian W. Herst.
32. April 28, 1828 (Shapard A Family History, pg 44)
Robert’s sister, Martha, married Joshua Wilson McCown in Columbia, Tennessee.
33. May 1, 1828 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 27, 28, Familysearch image #538, 539)
Deed between Fredrick Johns and William H. Newgent both of Rutherford County for 20 acres on west side of West Fork of Stones River. (witness) H. Robinson and Robt. P. Shapard.
34. May 22, 1828 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 361)
R.P. Shapard on jury of case State vs. William D. Ferriss and State vs. Josiah Ferriss.
35. May 25, 1828 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 371)
R.P. Shapard on jury of case Henry D. Jamison vs. Charles Niles. Found in favor of Mr. Niles.
36. August 25, 1828 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 408)
R.P. Shapard on jury of many cases.
37. August 15, 1828 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 702)
Thos. H.P. Scales guardian to the heirs of Wm. Ridout dec’d. Also the following sundry articles furnished M.G. Ridout pr. Account at Shapard’s, paid August 15, 1828 - $13.06 ½
38. 1828 - 1829 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 769-770)
James Maney guardian of Martha Harrison report 1829 – 1830. On march 22, 1830 he settled her account at R.P. Shapard’s for goods purchased for 1828 – 1829 - $37.40
James Maney guardian of Eleanor Harrison report 1829 – 1830. On march 22, 1830 he settled her account at R.P. Shapard’s for goods purchased for 1828 – 1829 - $45.13
39. 1829 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 723)
Estate of James J. Maxwell dec’d. made settlement with Stephen Linch, exr of J.J. Maxwell, dec’d on November 1830 for outstanding debts – Robert P. Shapard & Co. - $11.34 (debit would have been prior to November 1830)
40. January 1, 1829 (Wills and Inventories of Rutherford County Tennessee, Book 7, pg 209)
We met to divide and set apart the negros of the estate of Simeon Horne, deceased. We have met at the house of Josaih Horne and proceeded to divide the following negros between the children and heirs of the said Simeon Horne, deceased. Heirs listed: Elijah Horne, Joel Horne, Thomas Shapard and Milly his wife we allotted Joe valued at $325, Josiah Horne, James Booth and Nancy his wife, Simeon Horne.
41. February 17, 1829 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 468)
R.P. Shapard appointed guardian of William Harrison and Mary Harrison minors of Joshua Harrison deceased.
Note: Sophia Harrison sued the heirs of Joshua Harrison which may be why they changed guardians. Guardians may have not been paying or upholding their responsibilities to the mother Sophia.
42. February 18, 1829 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 473)
R.P. Shapard on Jury duty on case Oplly Elliot vs. Partheia and Edward Donoho. Found in favor of plaintiff.
43. February 19, 1829 (Wills and Inventories of Rutherford County Tennessee, Book 7, pg 228)
John R. Wilson, guardian. 1828. By R.P. Shapard the present guardian receipt $2,960. Total $3,100.35. Signed by John R. Wilson, former guardian. R.P. Shapard present guardian. We have examined the above statement of a settlement with Dr. John R. Wilson, former guardian of William and Mary Harrison and the vouchers produced by Dr. Wilson seem to be correctly stated. This 19th day of February, 1829. (signed) S. Anderson, J.R. Laughlin, James Holmes, Commissioners.
44. February 22, 1829 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 484)
R.P. Shapard and James Bone on jury duty for case Warren Edwards vs. John ___ found for defendant.
45. May 26, 1829 (Rutherford County, Tennessee County Court Records, Familysearch image 522)
R.P. Shapard was on jury duty for many trials that day.
46. August 18, 1829 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 138, Familysearch image #595)
Deed between David Mitchell and Faultheroy Henry both of Rutherford County, whereby David Mitchell sold 90 acres of land for $451 on the east side of West Fork of Stones River bounded by Robert Weakleys. (signed) David Mitchell. (witness) J.C. Mitchell & R.P. Shapard
47. October 29, 1829 (Shapard A Family History, pg 44)
Robert’s sister, Thelia “Avilla”, married James Bone in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Note: According to the Murfreesboro Courier of February 16, 1831, James Bone sold his tanyard and stock to David Shepherd and G.W. Shanklin.
48. November 12, 1829 (Rutherford Co. Tennessee Marriage records)
Robert Paine Shapard married Parthenia Mitchell in Rutherford Co. Tennessee on November 12, 1829. Henry H. Treadway was listed as bondsman.
Note: The Mitchell Family arrived in Murfreesboro in 1815. There was another William Mitchell in Murfreesboro prior to 1815, who signed the petition for the formation of Rutherford County in August of 1803 and was elected Register of Deeds from 1804 – 1806. There are two sources confirming our William Mitchell arriving in Murfreesboro in 1815 (source: Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements for William Mitchell S4221 and his grave stone located in Rutherford County, Tennessee). Mr. William Mitchell (1763-1850) and his wife Elizabeth Currie (1773-1828) had 12 children: Nealine (1790-?), John (1791-?), Mary (1793-?), James (1797-?), Sarah Currie (1800-1867), William Jr. (1801-?), David (1803-?), Azariah (1806-1855), Charles (1807-?), Parthenia (1809-1872), Addison (1811-1862) and Calvin Green (1814 – 1887). Many of the Mitchells are buried in the Mitchell Cemetery located on the old Mitchell plantation in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County Tennessee. The 1830 US Federal Census of Rutherford County lists William Mitchell as having 24 slaves. The 1840 US Federal Census of Rutherford County Tennessee lists William Mitchell as having 26 slaves. As stated on his gravestone, William Mitchell died on January 20, 1850.
Note: (Rutherfordtnhistory.org. pioneers before 1800)
William H. Mitchell, Sen., b. May 1765 in Orange Co., NC - d. Jan 27, 1850. He m. 1790, Elizabeth Curry/Currie, b. July 3, 1773 - d. Apr 7, 1828 (Presbyterian Church records)[NBNW 19 Apr 1828]. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who fought in the Battle of Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, and King’s Mountain. He applied for pension Aug 23, 1832 in Rutherford Co. for Revolutionary War service on the NC line. He was living in Caswell Co., NC when he enlisted. He served with a brother, Lt. David Mitchell, who d. in Caswell Co., NC. [RWP]. He is buried on the Mitchell farm which was part of the Stones River Battlefield. He emigrated to Tenn. ca 1803. He was appointed a commissioner, 3 July 1804 and the first Register of Deeds from 1804 - 1806 (appointed Jan 3, 1804) [Spence, p. 33]. He appeared on a list of letters remaining at the post office in Jefferson on Jan 1, 1810 [GATN]. He signed the petition requesting the formation of Rutherford Co. 10 Aug 1803. He owned 200 acres on the 1809 Rutherford Co. tax list and was found on the 1810 & 1820 census. He appeared on the 1840 census for Rutherford Co. as a Revolutionary War pensioner, age 75. Presbyterian Church records state: “William Mitchell, Sen. died January 27, 1850 age 87". CHILDREN: Azariah Mitchell (b. 1806, d. 22 Oct 1855, unmarried); John Mitchell (never m.); Mary Ann Mitchell, (deceased before 1855, m. Daniel William McMurray); Eliza Mitchell (d. age 5); James C. Mitchell, (m. Fannie Bedford); Sarah C. Mitchell, (b. 1800, m. Samuel Hodge); William Mitchell, Jr., (b. 1801, m. Mary Ledbetter); David Mitchell, (d. before 1855, b. 1803, m. Margaret Peebles); Charlie Mitchell (b. 1806 - twin); Nealine Mitchell (b.1806 - twin - never m.); Pathenia Mitchell, (b. 1809, m. 1829, Robert P. Shapard); Addison Mitchell, (b. 1811, m. Mary Ann Hodge); Calvin Gorrell Mitchell, (b. 1814, m. Sadie Gannaway and Olivia
49. November 16, 1829 (Rutherford County Militia Commissions 1821-1830)
Robert Shapard joined the 104th Regiment of the Rutherford County militia on November 16, 1829, four days after his marriage to Parthenia Mitchell. His brother-in-law, James Mitchell, also joined the 104th Regiment this same day as a Captain. The 104th regiment had about 55 members during this time.
Note: The regiments of Rutherford County formed the 9th Brigade, which was part of the 2nd Division. The annual drill for the Rutherford County militia regiments was set for the second Thursday and day following after the first Monday in September every year. Tennessee militia was reserved for white males age 18 – 45 years old. The State militia was vital for the security of the United States due to the regular army not being large enough for proper defense.
50. November 22, 1829 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 590)
R.P. Shapard on jury of case State vs. David Gheen. Found defendant guilty
51. December 1829 (Rutherford County Deeds)
The administrator of the estate of Joshua Harrison (deceased), W.D. Baird made settlement with Robert P. Sheppard who gave security as guardian of William J. and Mary Harrison, minor heirs.
52. January 1830 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 620)
Robert P. Shapard guardian report for William and Mary Harrison reports on January 1, 1830 paid account at R.P. Shapard & Co. for merchandise – $18.26 and $9.34.
53. Jan 12, 1830 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 8, pg. 20; Familysearch image 15)
Settlement in the estate of Joshua Harrison, WM D. Baird administrator: Amount paid R.P. Shapard on account $11.37 and $13.81 ¼ . Jan 12, 1830.
54. 1830 (Census)
Rutherford County Tennessee, R.P. Shapard: 1 male under 5, 1 male 15-19, 2 males 20-29; 1 female 20-29; 4 slaves.
55. February 22, 1830 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 626)
William Miller, John McKinley, Joseph Moore, R.P. Shapard and Robert H. Goodloe were this day appointed constables for Rutherford County who severally gave bond and security and qualified according to law.
56. February 23, 1830 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 631)
Robert P. Shapard vs. Frank N.W. Burton and Henry D. Jamison. In debt. No. 45. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon also came a jury of good and lawful men (name of jury members)…who upon their oath do say that the defendants have not paid the debt of $115.50 in the plaintiffs declarations mentioned, as the plaintiff in the replying hath alleged, and they assess the plaintiffs damages by reason of the detention of that debt to $9.48. It is therefore considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
57. March 6, 1830 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 196, Familysearch image #623)
James H. Thompson of Bedford County, TN was indebted to Robert P. Shapard in the sum of $11.13.
58. March 22, 1830 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 135; Familysearch image 328)
James Maney guardian of Eleanor Harrison paid R.P. Shapard $47.23 for his account of goods provided in 1828 & 1829.
59. May 18, 1830 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 635)
R.P. Shapard guardian for two of the minor heirs of Joshua Harrison deceased returned current account with said heirs to be recorded.
60. May 19, 1830 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 651)
Robert P. Shapard vs. Randolph Hall and John Hall. In debt. No. 40. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon also came a jury of good and lawful men (name of jury members)…who upon their oath do say that the defendants have not paid the debt of $125 in the plaintiffs declarations mentioned, as the plaintiff in the replying hath alleged, and they assess the plaintiffs damages by reason of the detention of that debt to $10.37. It is therefore considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
61. May 25, 1830 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 279, Familysearch image #664)
John McKinley deeds lot #70 in the town of Murfreesboro to Mathew McDonald for the sum of $355. Deed was witnessed by R.P. Shapard and W. Mitchell, Jr.
62. June 1830 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 8, pg. 217; Familysearch image 114)
Thomas Yardly guardian report for 1830 for heirs of John Warren decd. Account for Benjamin Warren to merchandise from Shapard & Mitchell for bill $7.25. Recorded June 1830.
63. July 1830 (Rutherford County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard, guardian report in account with Mary Harrison. Several accounts listed to several named person including Sophia Harrison’s board, medical bill, &c. Robert P. Shapard, guardian report in account with William S. Harrison. Several accounts listed with several named persons including Sophia Harrison’s board and Doctor Wilson, former guardian for the amount of $25.
64. August 17, 1830 (Shapard A Family History, pg 169)
Robert’s son, William Shapard, is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
65. August 18, 1830 (Rutherford County Court Records, Familysearch image 686)
Robert P. Shapard who was appointed guardian for William J. Harrison and Mary Harrison minor heirs of Joshua Harrison at a former term of this court, this day came into court and gave bond and security as guardian for said children, Azariah one of the securities in his former bond having been released from further liability.
66. September 1830 (Census Rutherford Co., TN)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a free white male of age 20-29, with one male of age under 5, one male of age 15-19, an additional male of age 20-29, one female of age 20-29, and four slaves; one male 10 – 23 years old, two females under 10 years old, and one female 24 – 35 years old. There were 9 people living in his house including his slaves.
67. October 25, 1830 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s brother Lewis Shapard, Jr., married Thursa Burdette in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
68. November 6, 1830 (The Courier, Murfreesboro Tennessee newspaper)
(Advertisement) NEW GOODS. The subscribers are now receiving from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pittsburg a handsome assortment of Spring and Summer GOODS, consisting of the great variety generally kept by Merchants of this place. Fancy and Staple Goods; Hardware and Cutlery; Queens, Glass & China Wares; Groceries, Drugs, Medicines, &c. Which they will sell low for cash, or on a credit to solvent purchasers. They invite their friends and those wishing to buy to call and examine their Goods and prices; which we flatter ourselves will be found of good quality and at reduced prices. Shapard & Mitchell. (Placed May 29, 1830)
69. December 15, 1830 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 712)
R.P. Shapard purchased a negro named ‘Josiah’ for $335.00 from the estate of John McIvor dec’d on December 15, 1830.
70. December 11, 1830 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 8, pg. 225; Familysearch image 118)
Settlement made on Dec 11, 1830 with Stephen Lynch executor of the estate of James J. Maxwell decd. R.P. Shapard & Cos. $11.34. (Note: Jonathan Huggins is listed in long list of names in settlement which may be the Huggins of Huggins & Shapard)
71. 1830-1831 (Record Book of Rutherford County Book 9, pg. 5; Familysearch image 262)
Uriah Gardner Decd. Settlement made by August Court 1832. Note and interest to R.P. Shapard from August 6, 1831 in the amount of $11.89. August 31, 1831 for $5.15. September 15, 1830 to Shapard & Huggins account $0.15.
Note: there is a Jonathan Huggins and William Huggins listed in names of 1830s. Johnathan owned a shop in 1830 as people owe on his accounts.
72. 1830- 1831 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 868)
James Maney Guardian Martha Harrison. Receipt for 1831. Dispersements… To: Shapard & Mitchell account Merchandise for 1830-1831 - $15.12 ½
73. 1830- 1831 (Family Search, Tennessee Probate Court Books, Rutherford County Inventories, Settlements, Wills, 1820-1832, image 870)
James Maney Guardian Ellen Harrison. Receipt for 1831. Dispersements… To: Shapard & Mitchell account Merchandise for 1830-1831 - $20.18
74. 1831 (Deeds of Rutherford County, Tennessee)
Deed between R.P. Shapard and James Reed (S 605) (note need to check who bought and who sold)
75. 1831 (Deeds of Rutherford County, Tennessee)
Joshua W. McCown deeded to R.P. Shapard (T 205)
76. January 1831 (Deeds of Rutherford County, Tennessee)
L.P. Yandell, of Davidson County Tennessee, and John James of Rutherford County Tennessee sold to Robert P. Shapard, of Rutherford County Tennessee, for the sum of $200 a town lot in on the east side of Murfreesboro, described as: “Beginning at a stake at the south east corner of Canon Street to which leads from the public square in said town, running thence south with the east boundary line of the said town nine poles to a stake in said boundary, thence east nine poles to a stake, thence north nine poles to a stake and then west to the beginning…”
(Signed) L.P. Yandell and John Jones, January 1831.
77. March 22, 1831 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 137; Familysearch image 329)
James Maney guardian of Martha Harrison heir of Joshua Harrison decd. Paid R.P. Shapard for his account of goods in 1828 and 1829 $47.21.
78. May 1831 (Jury list for Rutherford County Tennessee, 1826-1841, Family search image 22)
Robert P. Shapard was a juryman for 1831 Grand Jury May term.
79. May 2, 1831 (Deeds of Rutherford County, Tennessee)
Robert P. Shapard, guardian Return 1831. In account with William J. Harrison. Total amount $2094.61. Credits to several named persons. Recorded 2nd May 1831
Robert P. Shapard, guardian Return 1831. In account with Mary Harrison, whole amount $2094.61. Recorded 2nd May 1831
80. May 17, 1831 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 91)
Robert P. Shapard vs James H. Rucker and Gideon Rucker. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon came also a jury of good and careful men, to wit, George Parks, Alfred Martin, James Dewent, Alaman Spence, George A Sublett, Isaac Miller, Alfred Miller, Richard Hallyburton, Peter Vaughan, Richard D, McCullock, Samuel H. Hodge and William Lewis, who being elected tried and sworn well and truly to try the issue joined between the parties upon their oath do say that the defendants have not paid the debt of $120 in the plaintiffs declaration mentioned, as the plaintiff in replying hath alleged, and they assess said plaintiff damages by reason of the detention of that debt, to 8 dollars 37 and ½ cents. It is therefore considered by the court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
81. May 17, 1831 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 93-94)
Robert P. Shapard vs. Joseph Yource. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon came also a jury of good and careful men, to wit, George Parks, Alfred Martin, James Dewent, Alaman Spence, George A Sublett, Isaac Miller, Alfred Miller, Richard Hallyburton, Peter Vaughan, Richard D, McCullock, Samuel H. Hodge and William Lewis, who being elected tried and sworn well and truly to try the issue joined between the parties upon their oath do say that the defendant hath not paid the debt of $105.28 in the plaintiff declaration mentioned, as the plaintiff in replying hath alleged, and they assess said plaintiff damages by reason of the detention of that debt to $7. It is therefore considered by the court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
82. May 17, 1831 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 95)
Robert P. Shapard vs. James Patton and Elijah Staten. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon came also a jury of good and careful men, to wit, George Parks, Alfred Martin, James Dewent, Alaman Spence, George A Sublett, Isaac Miller, Alfred Miller, Richard Hallyburton, Peter Vaughan, Richard D, McCullock, Samuel H. Hodge and William Lewis, who being elected tried and sworn well and truly to try the issue joined between the parties upon their oath do say that the defendants have not paid the debt of $122.06 in the plaintiff declaration mentioned, as the plaintiff in replying hath alleged, and they assess said plantiff damages by reason of the detention of that debt to $10.18. It is therefore considered by the court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
83. June 11, 1831 (Williamson County Tennessee Deeds)
This indenture made and entered into this 11th of June in the year of our Lord 1831, between John Nichols of the one part and Robert P. Shapard of the other part witnesseth, that the said John Nichols for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged doth grant bargain and sell unto Robert P. Shapard one negro man named Peter, aged about forty-eight years old, and all the house hold and kitchen furniture conveyed by Joshua W. McCown to said Nichols by two deeds of trust registered in that registers office of Williamson County (to wit) 1 secretary, 1 chana press and furniture ten chairs tow bedsteads beds and furniture, 1 trundle bedstead, 1 dressing table, 1 dining table, 1 candle stand, 1 map of the world, 1 map of Tennessee, and other articles of household and kitchen furniture too tedious to mention, with all of Joshua W. McCowns books, and also a grey horse named Tom, one black horse named Coley, 1 blind sorrel horse Chafy and also a bay horse named Jack, which I purchased of Abner Stacy, to have and to hold unto the Robert P. Shapard and his executors and administrators for ever in trust nevertheless and this deed is executed under the express condition that all the above property shall be and remain in possession of Martha McCown wife of the said Joshua W. McCown for her own proper use and for the support and education of her children and to her and her heirs forever and if the said Robert P. Shapard Trustee as aforesaid, his executors or administrators shall at any time believe it to be the advantage of the said Martha McCown or her children to sell any of the above described property for the support and education or otherwise he the said Trustee shall proceed to sell the same under regulations and in such a manner as he may see proper and apply the proceeds of the said sale to the use of the said Martha McCown and her children. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and applied my seal the day and date above mentioned. John Nichols. Witnesses: W. Smith & James Dozier. Registered Feb. 1st, 1832
84. July, 1831 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 170)
Robert P. Shapard vs. Horatio Alexander and Samuel H. Hodge. This day came the said parties by their attorneys and thereupon came also a jury of good and careful men, to wit, William B. Chandler, Brandon Powell, William G. Murphy, Alfred Miller, William Mitchell, Sewellen E. Jones, Robert McGillin, Nathaniel L. Douglas, Bailey Fanner, Charles Niles, William N. Newgent and Peter B. Jones, who being elected tried and sworn well and truly to try the issue joined between the parties upon their oath do say that the defendants have not paid the debt of $144.54 in the plaintiff declaration mentioned, as the plaintiff in replying hath alleged, and they assess said plaintiff damages by reason of the detention of that debt to $13.73. It is therefore considered by the court that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the debt and damages aforesaid and also all the costs in this behalf expended.
85. August 19, 1831 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 189)
Robert P. Shapard who was elected Coroner on the first day of this term, this day came into court and gave bond and security and qualified according to law.
86. 1832 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 58; Familysearch image 289)
Settlement with County Trustee. Settlement made 20 February 1832: R.P. Shapard $5.00, R.P. Shapard $3.00…
87. January 1832 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 102; Familysearch image 310)
Heir of John Johns decd in account with James Rucker guardian for Stephen B. Johns October 6, 1832 cash paid to Shapard & Mitchell $5.56 ¼ .
Heir of John Johns, decd in account with James Rucker guardian for Clement Johns Octoaber 4, 1833 cash paid W. Shapard for schooling $3.25. Note: other children educated in Nashville, thus this is most likely W.B. Shapard.
88. January 1, 1832 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 135; Familysearch image 328)
James Maney guardian of Eleanor Harrison paid Shapard & Mitchell for their account of goods $26.15
89. January 1, 1832 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 137; Familysearch image 329)
James Maney guardian of Martha Harrison heir of Joshua Harrison decd. Paid Shapard & Mitchell for account for 1830 and 1831 $26.15.
90. February 14, 1832 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 604, Familysearch image #827)
William C. Fletcher sold a lot in the town of Murfreesboro to William D. Baird “being the eastern part of lot No. _ known and designated in the original plan of said town by number _ on the north side of Main Street leading east from the courthouse and west of the Lot heretofore occupied by Robert Z. Hawkins and adjoining the same containing one half of said lot No._ originally Where Robert P. Shapard now resided…” (Witness) Robert P. Shapard, Green Clay. (R.P. Shapard witnessed in May Term of Court to the above deed)
91. February 14, 1832 (Rutherford County TN Deed Book S, pg 605, Familysearch image #827)
William D. Baird sold lot #94 in Murfreesboro to William Fletcher (a brickyard run by Fletcher). (Witness) R. P. Shapard, Green Clay
92. March 22, 1832 (Deeds of Rutherford County, Tennessee)
Robert P. Shapard, of Rutherford County Tennessee, sold to James Read, of Rutherford County Tennessee, for the sum of $350 a Lot of land in Murfreesboro in Rutherford County Tennessee described as, “Beginning at a stake at the south east corner of Canon Street to which leads from the public square in said town, running thence south with the east boundary line of the said town nine poles to a stake in said boundary, thence east nine poles to a stake, thence north nine poles to a stake and then west to the beginning…” This being the same land that R.P. Shapard purchased from L.P. Yandell in January of 1831.
(Signed) R.P. Shapard, March 22, 1832
93. April 30, 1832 (Rutherford County Deeds)
A return by Robert P. Shapard, guardian for William J. Harrison, heir of Joshua Harrison, deceased, to February Term 1832. R.P. Shapard, guardian. In account with William J. Harrison. 1831, Jany 1 in my hands pr. Return 23rd February 1831 $2094.61. 1832 Received rent and hire for 1830 - $42.44; Jany 1 received rent for 1831 - $40.96; Febry 1 received for sale of negros - $145.45; Total $2323.46
Paid out. 1831 Amt. paid out pr. Return 23rd February 1831 - $178.30; Jany 18 “ paid Barlow Tuition - $10.00; 1832 3”” Baird Do - $1.38; Jany 1 “” Sophia Harrison board etc. - $40.00; Jany 1 “” Shapard & Mitchell Merchandise - $12.06; Febry 18 “” David Wendell for books - $3.00; Total $244.76. Recorded 30th April, 1832.
R.P. Shapard, guardian. In account with Mary Harrison. 1831 amt. in my hands pr. Return Febry. 23rd 1831 - $2094.61; Jany 1 “” Received for rent and hire 1830 - $42.44; Jany 1832 “” rent for 1831 - $40.98; Febry 1 “” sale of negros - $145.45; total $2323.48.
Paid out. 1831amt. paid out pr. Return Febry 23 1831 - $160.00; Apl. 30 “” Barlow for tuition - $10.00; Decr. 2 “” C. Niles Do - $5.50; 1832 Jany 1 “” Shapard & Mitchell Merchandise - $23.09; Jany 1 1832 “” Sophia Harrison board, etc. - $40.00. Total $241.84. Recorded 30th April, 1832
94. May, 1832 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 316)
Ordered by the court that Robert P. Shapard Coroner of Rutherford County, be allowed the sum of $5 for summoning a jury and holding an inquest over the body of Simeon Slack deceased and that the County Justice pay the same to him out of any unappropriated money in his hands, there being present on the bench the following justices, to wit, John Fletcher, Sublett, Elloitt, McDowell, Wade, Lott, Jacobs, Bowman, Reed, Mathews, Sanders, Vinson, Patton, Tennison.
95. May, 1832 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 328)
A deed of conveyance from Robert P. Shapard to James Reed for a lot of ground in the east side of Murfreesboro was acknowledged by the said Robert P Shapard and ordered to be registered.
96. August 20, 1832 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book X, pg 370)
Robert P. Shapard Coroner of Rutherford County this day in open court renders his resignation which is excepted [accepted].
97. October 17, 1832 (Shapard A Family History, pg 169)
Robert’s son, James Hodge Shapard, was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Note: The middle name of ‘Hodge’ is from Parthenia’s older sister, Sarah Curry Mitchell (1800 – 1867) who married a Presbertian Minister named Samuel H. Hodge (1800 – 1846) on March 27, 1820. One of their children, John J. Hodge would live with R.P. Shapard in Fayetteville in 1850 and would buy-out Booker Shapard’s store in 1851. He was very well liked, cheerful, upstanding citizen, and a model of sobriety and died on April 6, 1851 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
98. December 4, 1832 (Western Freeman – Shelbyville, Tennessee newspaper)
(Advertisement) Booker Shapard has on hand at the southeast corner of the public square a large and splendid assortment of ladies and gentlemen’s saddles, Spanish saddles, bridles, martingales, etc…
Ad placed on: “Shelbyville, October 3, 1832”
99. 1832-1833 (“Rutherford County Offices and Officers (1804-1973),” Rutherford County Tennessee Historical Society, Publication 1 (June 1973).
Robert P. Shapard is listed as holding the office of Rutherford County Coroner from 1832-1833.
100. 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 111; Familysearch image 315)
James Maney guardian of Martha Harrison heir of Joshua Harrison decd return for 1833. Rent 1829 $47.21, rent 1833 $28.31, rent 1832 $24.52. Disbursements 1833 to R.P. Shapard account merchandise $1.82, Booker Shapard for saddle $24.00, tuition female academy and firewood session ending June 1st $12.50. cash paid Mrs. Harrison board 1833 $40. Dr. Rucker medical bill $3.50.
101. 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 239; Familysearch image 379)
John N. Reed, decd. Voucher R.P. Shapard $12.96.
102. January 7, 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 137; Familysearch image 329)
James Maney guardian of Martha Harrison heir of Joshua Harrison decd. Paid R.P. Shapard on account of goods for 1831 and 1832 $14.3, 1833 $14.3
103. Feburary 15, 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford County Book 9, pg. 28; Familysearch image 274)
Alexander Patterson, Decd. Credits and vouchers presented by order February 15, 1833: Shapard & Mitchell $2.00
104. March 11, 1833 (Rutherford County, Tennessee marriages)
Marriage between David Taylor and Rachel Witherspoon. Surety Robert Shepard.
Note: This may or may not be our Robert.
105. March 15, 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 135; Familysearch image 328)
James Maney guardian of Eleanor Harrison paid R.P. Shapard on his account for goods $12.00
106. Before June 22, 1833 (Shapard A Family History, pg 46)
Robert’s father, Lewis Shapard, died of cholera** at the house of his son, James Paine Shapard, in Rutherford County, Tennessee and was buried in the Old City Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
**Note: in 1833 there was a cholera epidemic that decimated the local population. The Nashville Banner and Nashville Daily Advisor reported the Death of Mr. Lewis Sheppard in Rutherford County in their newspaper of June 22, 1833. They also listed Mrs. Booker Shephard’s death in Shelbyville, TN of Cholera in their July 11, 1833 issue. They also listed the death of Joshua Shopard, infant son of Booker of Shelbyville, in the issue of Sept 2, 1833.
Note: Letter from Joshua Harrison Shapard to his daughter Mrs. Cora Barrow, dated June 15,1906, in which he reports that, “My grandfather Lewis Shapard, was of English decent. He originally lived in Caswell County, N.C.; from there he emigrated with a large family to middle Tennessee when Tennessee was a new country, and settled near where Murfreesboro is now located. He was a builder of mills. He died with the cholera at my father’s house about 1832…” Notice: Joshua does not use the corruption of Lewis’ name “Lewis Thomas Shapard” (as so often was used) but instead uses the correct “Lewis Shapard” which lends credibility to his knowledge of his grandfather and his account of his life.
Note: Lewis Thomas Shepard is listed on the Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Index as a soldier who was buried in the Old City Cemetery in Murfreesboro Tennessee #P-288687. This is a misrepresentation of the truth due to faulty research genealogy in the early 1900s, whereby Lewis Shapard was believed to have been born in 1759; However, we now know he was born around 1773, thus was too young to have fought in the War. In addition his name was NOT ‘Lewis Thomas Shapard’, but simply ‘Lewis Shapard.’
Note: it is deduced that Robert’s business partner, James Mitchell, died during the cholera epidemic as after this date there is no mention of his name in the records I have located. After this date, Robert no longer does business under the name of Shapard & Mitchell but instead returns to R.P. Shapard & Co. If James did not die in 1833, he must have terminated his partnership and moved from Rutherford County.
107. June 22, 1833 (National Banner and Nashville Daily Advertiser)
DIED, in Rutherford County, Mrs. Jane W. Wrather, Mr. William Wood, Mr. Lewis Sheppard.
108. United States Department of the Interior National Parks Service, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Old First Presbyterian Church and Old City Cemetery.
(Provides a wealth of information on the graveyard where Lewis Shapard is supposed to have been buried)
109. July, 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford County Book 9, pg. 34; Familysearch image 278)
Joshua Harrison Decd. R.P. Shapard guardian. In account with William J. Harrison Feb. 19. 1833 amount received as guardian pr return Feb. 1832: $2323.48. Amount paid out: Feb. 1832 $244.76; May 26, 1832 B.D. Barlow for tuition $25.00; January 1833 Sophia Harrison for board, etc. $40.00; Jan 13, 1833 Richard Shapard for tuition $12.00; Jan 32, 1833 William & Christy misc $2.25; Feburary 19, 1833 R.P. Shapard for misc. $47.14. Total $370.15
R.P. Shapard guardian. In account with Mary Harrison Feb. 19. 1833 amount received as guardian pr return Feb. 1832: $2323.46. Amount paid out per return 1832 $241.84; January 1833 Sophia Harrison for board, etc. $40.00; Jan 13, 1833 G. Baker for tuition $8.50; Jan 32, 1833 William & Christy misc $6.30; Feburary 19, 1833 R.P. Shapard for misc. $34.02. Total $330.66
Recorded July, 1833
110. July 26, 1833 (Rutherford County Deeds)
Joshua Harrison, deceased. R.P. Shapard, guardian. Amount paid to B.D. Barlow for tuition, Sophia Harrison for board, &c., Richard Shapard for tuition, William T. (ineligible) for mdze, and R.P. Shapard for mdze. Total amount $371.15. R.P. Shapard, guardian, in account with Mary Harrison, paid amount received as guardian &c., $2323.46. Other named person was Shapard Harrison. Paid out several accounts. Recorded 26th July, 1833.
111. August 10, 1833 (Record Book of Rutherford County Book 9, pg. 44; Familysearch image 282)
Joshua Harrison decd. James Maney guardian of Ellen Harrison heir of Joshua Harrioson decd reports to the county court of Rutherford that according to return made to the honorable court in February 1832 there was then in the hands belonging to said ward $2039. May 2, 1833 $247.75. Total $2286.80. Dispersments January 1, 1833: Paid Thomas Curtcher for tuition female academy Nashville $20.00, T.V. Peticolas for tuition in drawing Nashville $15.00, Echbaun & Norvell bookstore $9.93, William B. Shapard misc. $58.79, William & Christys misc. $13.37; R.P. Shapard misc. 27.00. Feb. 21, 1833 total $563.01. Recorded Aug. 10, 1833.
112. December 31, 1833 (Shapard A Family History, pg 167)
Robert’s brother, Booker, after being widowed married, Sarah Broyles in Mulberry, Lincoln Co. Tennessee.
113. 1834 (Tennessee Gazette)
The newspaper profiled the community of Murfreesboro:
“It is well laid out and handsomely situated near the West Branch of Stone’s River; surrounded by a body of rich farming land under a high stage of cultivation….It has an Academy and two schools, three churches, four clergymen, ten lawyers, four physicians, a printing office, two cotton gins, one carding machine, one gristmill, four blacksmiths, four bricklayers, three haters, one painter, three saddlers, five shoemakers, one silversmith, four tailors, one tinner, two taverns and ten or 12 stores.”
114. January 1834 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 93; Familysearch image 306)
James Maney guardian of Ellen Harrison heir of Joshua Harrison reports: Rent for year 1829 - $47.21, Rent for 1832-$24.52, Rent for 1833-$28.31. January 1834 disbursement R.P. Shapard for misc for years 1831, 1832 and 1833 $19.19. To Mrs. Harrison for board for 1833 $40.
115. January 1834 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 95; Familysearch image 307)
R.P. Shapard guardian of Wm. J. Harrison. Feb. 19, 1834 amount received as for return feb. 19, 1833 $2323.46. 1833 January 1 received for rent of 1832 $24.52, 1834 January 1 received for rent of 1833 $28.31. July 13, 1833 amount paid out as per return 1833 $371.15, (same date) paid A.J. Hoover tuition $9.51, January 1, 1834 sophia Harrison board $40.00, Feb. 19, 1834 B.D. Barlow tuition $12.50, R.P. Shapard bill for misc $1.00.
116. January 1834 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 98; Familysearch image 309)
R.P. Shapard guardian of Mary Harrison. Feb. 19, 1834 amount received as for return feb. 19, 1833 $2323.46. Feb. 19, 1833 received for rent of 1832 $24.52, 1834 January 1 received for rent of 1833 $28.31. October 11, 1833 amount paid out as per return 1833 $330.66 (same date) paid G. Baker tuition $10.50, January 1, 1834 sophia Harrison board $40.00, Feb. 18, 1834 G. Baker tuition $12.50, R.P. Shapard bill for misc $7.06.
117. February 1834 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 109; Familysearch image 314)
William L. Thompson decd inventory February 1834. Note for R.P. Shapard due December 25, 1834 $48.00
118. May 17, 1834 (Wills and Inventories of Rutherford County, Tennessee Vol. 2, 1828-1840, Book 9, pg. 121)
Estate of Benjamin C. Butts settled in Middleton on May 17, 1834. Signed: Wm T. Basket, Wm. Vinson, J.P. Shapard.
119. October 18, 1834 (The Murfreesboro Monitor)
List of letters remaining in the post office at Jefferson, Tennessee on the first day of October, 1834 which if not taken out before the first of January next will be sent to the general post office as dead.
-R.P. Shappard (listed as having a letter)
120. November 3, 1834 (Rutherford County Deeds)
Armistead Cartwell, of Rutherford County Tennessee, sold to R.P. Shapard, of Rutherford County Tennessee, for the sum of $1,400 a two parcel of land in Rutherford County.
The first was located on the East fork of Stones River, described as,” Beginning at a stake in the middle of said East fork opposite the mouth of the Maiden Spring branch, it being the second branch that runs into said river on the south side above Abbotts Mill, then runs up said branch as it meanders to a black oak and Dogwood, thence west 25 poles to a hickory, dogwood and walnut, thence north 137 poles to a honey locust on the side of a dry branch, thence down the said branch as it meanders north forty degrees west 45 poles to the mouth at Stones River, thence up the middle of the said river as it meanders to the beginning.“ This being the same land that Armistead Cartwell purchased from Joseph Newman on November 26, 1825. Containing approximately 120 acres.
The second parcel of land is described as, ”Beginning with the south east corner of the tract of land conveyed by Thos. Rucker to John M. Pieford…a white oak and red oak, running thence 74 poles to a white oak and elm, thence north 21 poles, east 139 poles to a honey locust, thence with the line of the described tract south ten and a half degrees, west 130 poles to the beginning.” This being the same land sold to Armistead Cartwell by Joseph Newman on November 26, 1825. Containing approximately 120 acres.
(Signed) Armi. Cartwell, November 3, 1834
121. 1835 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 283; Familysearch image 402)
Inventory of the perishable property which has come into the hands of the administrators belonging to the estate of William Brady decd. R.P. Shapard – 1 pair brass Andirons $2.00
122. January 1, 1835 (Record Book of Rutherford TN County Record Book 9, pg. 278; Familysearch image 399)
A list of accounts due the estate of Alexander Rankin decd. Sept. 28, 1835. Robert Shapard $0.25.
123. February 1835 (?) (Rutherford County Deeds)
Guardian Report. R.P. Shapard, guardian in account with William J. Harrison. Several accounts listed including paid Sophia Harrison for board. Amount of accounts $546.58
Guardian Report. R.P. Shapard, guardian in account with Mary Harrison. Several accounts listed including paid Sophia Harrison for board. Amount of accounts $497.13.
124. April 20, 1835 (Shapard Bible)
Infant daughter of RP and Parthenia was born
125. May 20, 1835 (Rutherford TN County Court Minutes, Book Y, Familysearch image 158)
Alfred Miller & Co. vs. Robert L. Weakley & Robert P. Shapard. Lawsuit. Jury found in favor of the plaintiff in that the defendants had not paid their debt of $105.63. The jury also awarded the plaintiff an additional $3 in interest.
126. June 20, 1854 (Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, June 29, 1854, Library of Virginia, Memories)
From the Nashville True Whig. Fayetteville, June 20, 1854. Up to this time there has been 15 deaths by cholera – 11 whites and 4- blacks – and no abatement; last Saturday 3 deaths – Sabbath no death cases. About 20 families in town – several will leave today; the new cases are not so violent.- Printers and editors all gone – no tavern. Yours in haste, R.P. Shapard
127. July 13, 1835 (Shapard Bible)
Infant daughter of RP and Parthenia Shapard died
128. 1836 (Rutherford County Deeds)
John M. Blankenship mortgage to R.P. Shapard (W 174)
129. January 12, 1836 (Rutherford County Deeds)
R.P. Shapard, guardian report. In account with William J. Harrison, total amount $2376.29. Credits listed to several named persons including Sophia Harrison, total $439.96. Recorded 12th January, 1836.
130. February 1836 (?) (Rutherford County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard, guardian. In account with William J. Harrison. Several expenses listed to several named persons, including Sophia Harrison, Mary Harrison.
131. June 15, 1836 (Shapard A Family History, pg 169)
Robert’s daughter, Avarilla Elizabeth Shapard, is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
132. July 16, 1836 (Shapard A Family History, pg 108)
Robert’s son James Hodge Shapard died in Jefferson, Rutherford County, Tennessee.
133. February 3, 1837(Rutherford County Deeds)
Robert Paine Shapard sold to Samuel Black for the sum of $1,400 the two lots of land he purchased on the Stones River from Armistead Cartwell, on November 3, 1834 described as:
The first was located on the East fork of Stones River, described as,” Beginning at a stake in the middle of said East fork opposite the mouth of the Maiden Spring branch, it being the second branch that runs into said river on the south side above Abbotts Mill, then runs up said branch as it meanders to a black oak and Dogwood, thence west 25 poles to a hickory, dogwood and walnut, thence north 137 poles to a honey locust on the side of a dry branch, thence down the said branch as it meanders north forty degrees west 45 poles to the mouth at Stones River, thence up the middle of the said river as it meanders to the beginning.“ This being the same land that Armistead Cartwell purchased from Joseph Newman on November 26, 1825. Containing approximately 120 acres.
The second parcel of land is described as, ”Beginning with the south east corner of the tract of land conveyed by Thos. Rucker to John M. Pieford…a white oak and red oak, running thence 74 poles to a white oak and elm, thence north 21 poles, east 139 poles to a honey locust, thence with the line of the described tract south ten and a half degrees, west 130 poles to the beginning.” This being the same land sold to Armistead Cartwell by Joseph Newman on November 26, 1825. Containing approximately 120 acres.
(Signed) Armi. Cartwell, November 3, 1834
134. March 1837 (Rutherford County Deeds)
R.P. Shapard, guardian. 1837. In account with Mary Harrison balance $781.23. In account with William J. Harrison $968.18.
135. June 18, 1837 (Rutherford Co. Merchant Bonds 1837-1860, Misc. Book 42)
Robert P Shapard obtained a merchant bond**.
**Note: a merchant bond is insurance to guarantee payment and good transaction between parties.
Note: James Paine Shapard also applied for Merchant Bonds in July 2, 1838; October 31, 1839 and August 31, 1842.
136. November 1, 1837 (Rutherford Co. Merchant Bonds 1837-1860, Misc. Book 42)
Robert P Shapard obtained a merchant bond.
137. 1838 (Rutherford County Deeds Book X 387)
James Vaughn deeded to R.P. Shapard
138. April 1, 1838 (from Newspaper Tidbits 1819-1838, TenGen)
List of letters remaining in the post office at Gallatin, Tennessee on the 1st day of April, 1838: R.P. Shapard
139. May 31, 1838 (Shapard A Family History, pg 43)
Robert’s brother, Thomas Paine Shapard, married Ann Hope in Washington, Texas.
140. September 6, 1838 (Rutherford County Deeds)
A settlement made this day with Robert P. Shapard, guardian of William J. Harrison, a minor of Joshua Harrison, deceased, by me Robert S. Morris, Clerk. I find that the said guardian is indebted to his said ward as per return heretofore made with interest up to 17th day February 1838 in the sum of $2949, also find the following credits for money paid by him for the benefit of his said ward, to wit, William B. Shapard board, interest, tax on lots, tuition at Nashville, cash, &c., total $222.89. Balance due ward $2726.20. This 6th September, 1838.
A settlement made this day with Robert P. Shapard, guardian of Mary Harrison, a minor of Joshua Harrison, deceased, by me Robert S. Morris, Clerk. I find that the said guardian is indebted to his said ward up to 17th day February 1838 in the sum of $3166.64, also find the following credits for money paid by him for his said ward, to wit, paid taxes on lot, tuition, and merchandise, and to guardian for his services &c., $240.06. Balance due ward $2926.48. This 6th September, 1838. Recorded 27th October, 1838.
141. December 16, 1838 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, Edwin Ruthven Shapard, is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
142. June 21, 1839 (Rutherford Co. Merchant Bonds 1837-1860, Misc. Book 42)
Robert P Shapard obtained a merchant bond
143. June 26, 1839 (Rutherford County Deeds)
James Vaughn sold to R.P. Shapard for the sum of $1,800 a lot in Murfreesboro described as: Beginning on Reuben Hollis’s south west corner running south 150 feet to stake, thence east 150 feet to Wm. J. Lightler corner, thence north 150 feet, thence west 150 feet to the beginning.
144. September 12, 1839 (Tennessee Whig)
Meeting of the Whigs
Pursuant to public notice, a large and respectable meeting of the Whigs of Rutherford county assembled at the court house in Murfreesboro on Saturday the 24th of August, 1839…
The object of the meeting having been briefly and lucidly stated by the chairman, Dr. J.W. Richardson, moved that a Committee of sixty persons be appointed by the chair for the purpose of drafting a Preamble and Resolutions expressive of the ___ of the meeting. The motion having been adopted, the Chairman appointed the following persons on said Committee….R.P. Shapard.
Note: the resolutions were regarding false claims against the Whigs that were being circulated in flyers, and also how to address suspected fraud at the ballot box.
Note: The Whig Party in America was established in 1834 in response to the over use of Federal power by President Andrew Jackson. Most Whig supporters were union supporters and anti-masonic. The issue of slavery split the party; the Northern Whigs merged with the Republican Party, supporting abolition, whereas, the Southern Whigs, known as Cotton Whigs, merged with the Democratic Party, supporting slavery.
145. After August 24, 1839 (Personal notes)
Robert Paine Shapard moved his family from Murfreesboro to Fayetteville Tennessee.
Note: The Rutherford County Tennessee Deed Index has a listing of a Deed of Trust being transferred from R.P. Shapard to his brother James P. Shapard. J.P. Shapard continued to reside in Rutherford County for years afterwards.
Note: Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds books list Booker Shapard as purchasing 1 acre lot on West Mulberry from Charles Bright in September of 1835 (Vol.J-1, page 506) and selling same lot to Thomas Witaker in November 1845 (Vol P-1, page 219). Booker also purchased a lot on the west side of the Fayetteville Town Square from W.T. Ross in November of 1843 (Vol. O-1, page 281).
146. December 31, 1839 (Bedford County, Tennessee Deeds, Book JJ, pg 130)
Benjamin Blankenship to Methodist Episcopal Church deed 1 acre. Benjamine Blankenship of Bedford County on the one part and John L. Cooper, Edward Tarpley, J.P. Shapard, D.F. Lindsey and Ben Blankenship, all of Bedford County, Trustees of the other part, convey to Trustees for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church land in Bedford County on the North Fork near Rutherford County, Tennessee line. Bound by Blankenship and Saunders lines.
147. 1840 (Census Lincoln Co., TN)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a free white male of age 30-39 engaged in commerce, with one male of age under 5, one male of age 5-9, one female of age under 5, one female of age 30-39, and one female slave age 10 – 23. There were 5 free whites and one slave living at his house.
Robert resided in Civil District #8 in Lincoln County Tennessee.
148. February 27, 1840 (Rutherford County Deeds)
R.P. Shapard sells the lot of land he purchased from James Vaughn on June 26, 1839.
149. February 29, 1840 (Rutherford County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard is the guardian of William J. Harrison and Mary Harrison, minor heirs of Joshua Harrison, deceased and as such guardian is indebted to said minor heirs in about the sum of six thousand dollars; and whereas the said Robert P. Shapard is indebted to the following persons in the sums, and to be due, as follows, to wit:
Caleb Carp by note due August 19, 1839 in the sum of $1904.53; Taylor & Burton by note due January 18, 1840 in the sum of $1,283.38; Thatalee & Colberas by note due January 31, 1840 in the sum of $825.96; James Coleman by note due January 31, 1840 in the sum of $171.87, Sampson & Tarus by note due February 16, 1840 $406.22; Thorbenton & Webber by note due January 14, 1840 in the sum of $1,556.70; Morgan Allison the balance of note due about the first of this month in the sum of $790.50; Thomas Elmer by note due February 16, 1839 in the sum of $425.50; Johnson & Timpley by note due February 15, 1839 in the sum of $1,729.42; Joseph James by note due February 16, 1839 in the sum of $469.96; Curly and Rus by note due February 17, 1839 in the sum of $210.65; R. Paterson by note due February 14, 1839 in the sum of $367.41; George Peterson by note due February 21, 1839 in the sum of $322.87; Gilder & Monroe by note due February 17, 1839 in the sum of $70.93; M.J. Sackins by note due February 16, 1839 in the sum of $1336.37; G.S. Baker by note due February 21, 1839 in the sum of $71; Grigg & Elliott by note due February 18, 1839 in the sum of $167.16; Sanders & Martin by note due May 26, 1840 in the sum of $208.24; McNairy & Hamilton by note due January 1, 1840 in the sum of $72.83; James Vaughan by note due January 1, 1840 in the sum of $1,000; Samuel Woodward by account due June 18, 1839 in the sum of $66.82; Ewing & Gramy by account due July 1839 in the sum of $220.39; Butler & Williamson by account due July 1839 in the sum of $178.04; S & T Eakin by account due March 18, 1840 in the sum of $213.30.
And whereas the said Robert P. Shapard intends surrendering up said guardianship of said two minor heirs of the said Joshua Harrison, deceased. Now this indenture ___ that said Robert P. Shapard hath this day bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these pursuits doth bargain, sell and convey, for the consideration of $5 as well as for the other consideration and trust ___to the said James P. Shapard, one Lot or parcel of land lying in the town of Murfreesboro and known and designated in the plan of said town as number 56, also one negro woman named Sally about 45 years of age, one negro girl named Abby, one sorrel horse, three beds and furniture, three bedsteads, one dining table, one __table, one work stand, one work table, one sugar __, one bureau, one china __, six Windron chairs, six split bottom chairs, one mantel clock, one saddle, one pair brass Amlious, two looking glasses, lot or tableware, one writing desk and all the stack of goods, wares and merchandise which the said Robert P. Shapard has now on hand in his store in the town of Murfreesboro and also all notes and accounts due or to become due to the said Robert P. Shapard__ from said store or otherwise in trust. Nevertheless, for the purpose and uses as follows, to wit; The said James P. Shapard shall take immediate possession of the whole of the property hereby conveyed and sell the same either publically or privately and appropriate the proceeds, first to the payment of the ___ in and about this trust. Second to the payment and discharge of the debt due to said minor heirs of the said Joshua Harrison, deceased, said payment to be made by said James P. Shapard to the individual whom the court appoints their guardian upon the surrendering of said guardianship by the said Robert P. Shapard. Thirdly to the payment and discharge per rata of all the debts before mentioned, and fourthly if there should be a surplus the remainder to said Robert P. Shapard. It is understood that the said lot of ground is rented out until 1st of January next and if a sale of the same shall be effected prior to that time the purchaser will obtain possession when the lease of it expires, the note for the rent of which is included __in this assignment.. The notes and accounts and effects of every kind hereby conveyed , it is understood, constitute, together with the property conveyed and hereby authorized to be sold, a general fund, the proceeds of which shall be applied by the said James P. Shapard, above directed…
(Signed) R.P. Shapard, February 29, 1840
Registered: February 29, 1840
150. March 3, 1840 (Rutherford County Court Clerk’s Office Minute Book)
Robert P. Shapard this day in open court surrendered up his guardianship for William J and Mary Harrison minors of Joshua Harrison deceased. Sophia Harrison was this day in open court appointed guardian for William J. Harrison and Mary Harrison minor heirs of Joshua Harrison deceased and who gave bond and security according to law.
151. March 17, 1840 (Rutherford County Deeds)
A settlement made with Robert P. Shapard, guardian for William J. Harrison, a minor of Joshua Harrison, deceased, by me Robert S. Morris, Clerk. I find that the said guardian is indebted to his said ward with interest $2935.12. Credit by amount paid for ward, total $75.29. And interest of same and rents, totaling $3078.89. Also other credits paid out for ward for several items listed, a total of $211.14. Balance due William J. Harrison, $2867.75. This 17th March, 1840. Recorded 25th April, 1840
152. March 23, 1840 (Rutherford County Deeds)
A settlement made with Robert P. Shapard, guardian for Mary Harrison, a minor of Joshua Harrison, deceased, by me Robert S. Morris, Clerk. I find that the said guardian is indebted to his said ward for total $3147.41. Credit by amount paid out for ward to Edward Fisher, Sophia Harrison and R.P. Shapard, total $165.19. Balance due with interest $3206.50. Several other credits listed totaling $196.81. Balance due Mary $3009.69. This 23rd March, 1840.
153. May 2, 1840 (Tennessee Telegraph – Murfreesboro newspaper)
(Advertisement)
Delay Will Not Be Given.
Those indebted to R.P. Shapard must either come forward and make payment forthwith or they will certainly pay both the debt and costs as soon as the law can force the collection. The whole of said debts have been transferred to the undersigned as trustee and he is forced to close the business. Murfreesboro April 3, 1840. James P. Shapard – Trustee.
154. June 24, 1841 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, Robert Addison Shapard, is born in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
155. November 2, 1843 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, Evander Shapard, was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
156. February 23, 1844 (Republican Banner)
The Convention of the Whigs of Middle Tennessee, to appoint presidential Electors and Delegates to the Whig Convention to be holden at Baltimore on the first Monday of May next, commenced in this City on the 22nd of February…
After the Convention was organized, on the motion of Thomas Washington, of Davidson, the roll of the counties was called, and the following gentlemen enrolled their names as delegates to the Convention… Fifth District – Lincoln County – Dr. J.H. Jones, C. Homan, R.P. Shapard, E.N. McMillen… Sixth District – Giles County…B. Shapard.
157. March 20, 1844 (War of 1812 Pension File, Tennessee, William George)
Nashville Tennessee 20 March 1844
Mr. R.P. Shapard, Sir,
I have examined the enclosed memorandum, made out by Mr. J. Goodrich and regret that I cannot do anything more than to state – that I paid a part of the troops that were in the Battle of Taledega, Joseph Coleman paid a few of them (not many) that Robert Sercy, Esq., Paymaster paid the residue in 1816 – my payments were made in 1814 – I am inclined to believe that Capt. Porter’s Company was paid by Searcy. The abstract of payments returned to the Paymaster General office, Washington, will show by whom, Capt. Porter’s Company was paid. Very Respectually, (signed) Alpha Kingsley.
Note: This letter pertains to the War of 1812 regarding Mr. William George who was a Corporal in Captain John Porter’s Company, Tennessee Militia. Mr. George enlisted at Pulaski, Tennessee, on October4, 1813 and served until wounded on November 9, 1813. It appears that R.P. Shapard was assisting Mr. George in obtaining a pension for his service in the war.
158. September 8, 1844 (“Lincoln Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,” Lincoln County Tennessee Pioneers, Vol. 7, No. 3 (March 1978): pg. 64-65.)
The 4th Round of Quarterly Meetings of the Lincoln Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was held at Center Camp Ground on September 8, 1844. Among the members listed as being present was “R.P. Shepherd.”
Note: R.P. Shapard may have attended the 3rd Round of Quarterly Meetings of the Lincoln Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South held at the Fayetteville C. Presbyterian Church on July 6-7, 1844, however the list of members at this meeting was missing from the record. He was not listed as being a member prior to this date of which the record begins in 1838. It is interesting to note that at the meeting of September 8, 1844, there were ‘Colored Exhorters’ (Patrick, Moses and John) in attendance as members who’s character ‘passed.’ Booker Shapard (Robert’s brother) was listed as a member attending meetings at New Provedence on June 9, 1838; at Center Meeting House on September 1-2, 1838; at Mount Zion on December 29, 1838 where he was appointed as a Steward; at New Hope on August 3-4, 1839; at Center Meeting House on September 21-22, 1839; at New Prospect Meeting House on January 18-19, 1840; at Center Meeting House on September 19-20, 1840 where he was examined and his character passed. This was the last listing of Booker Shapard.
159. February 28, 1846 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, David Green Shapard, is born in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
160. October 28, 1846 (Republican Banner)
Honor to the Volunteers: Public Meeting
Yesterday morning, at eleven o’clock, a public meeting was held at the Court-House in this City (Nashville), for the purpose of doing honor to our Volunteers, who have won such unfading laurels at the city of Monteray. The meeting was numerously attended – thus showing, to some extent the feeling and sympathy which pervades every heart.
Dr. John Shelby was called to the Chair, and Major R.B. Turner and John Davis, Esq., were appointed Vice Presidents. T.D. Mosley and James Cambell, Esqrs., were selected Secretaries.
After the Chairman had explained the object of the meeting, the Hon. Edwin H. Ewing presented the following preamble and resolutions:
It has been announced to the country, through the official dispatches of General Taylor, and through private letters from the seat of war, that an important battle has been fought with the Mexican forces – that a victory has been obtained, and the city of Monterey has been taken by storm. And it appears that in the various movements of our army, as well previous to these events as on the days of battle, great energy, skill and bravery were shown, both by the whole body of the army and its officers, and by the commanding General. In the several attacks upon the city and its fortified places, the Volunteers of Tennessee were especially distinguished, for their gallant conduct and daring intrepidity. In these assaults many of these volunteers were slain, leaving behind them relatives and friends and fellow-citizens to mourn their loss, while many were wounded and are now languishing in pain far from their homes in a foreign land. Now, as all are entitled to that highest praise, that they have “deserved well of the Republic;” and the highest reward of the patriot soldier and his greatest incentive to duty and heroic deeds, next to approving conscience, are the sympathy and applause of his countrymen: …
Resolved further, That a Committee of ___ persons be appointed by the Chairman of this meeting, whose duty it shall be to obtain subscriptions, among the people of our own State, with the view of erecting, on a suitable spot, to be chosen by the Committee, in the town of Nashville, an appropriate Monument to the memory of each of the Tennessee Volunteers who fell at the storming and capture of Monterey, or may have since died of wounds received in the attack upon that place…
The following Committee appointed under the resolution of W. Barrow:
Lincoln county – James Fulton, R.P. Shapard, A.T. Nicks
Note: The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846 until 1848 as the United States laid claim to Texas and lands west of Texas. The Capture of Monterrey occurred in September of 1846. General Zachary Taylor led 6,640 men into battle against the 5000 man Mexican army that defended the city. The city was surrendered to the United States forces on September 25, 1846. (Source: Wikipedia).
161. January 5, 1847 (Minute Book A, Rutherford Co., Chancery Court Records 1845-1867, pg. 178-179)
Addison Mitchell, Robert P. Shapard and wife Parthenia. Ex parte. Petition to sell slaves. Be it remembered that this cause came on the be heard again before the Hon. B.L. Ridley Chancellor on the 5th day of January 1847, upon the repot of the Clerk and Master which report is in the [record] to wit.
In the above cause the undersigned reports that he has been unable to procure any testimony in regards to the slaves mentioned in the pleadings, but from the description of said slaves in the petition, he believes it would be manifestly to the interest of the petitioners that they be sold and others younger and more likely to increase be purchased in their places.
Respectfully submitted,
James F. Fletcher
Which being heard and understood by the court is in all things confirmed. It is therefore ordered, acknowledged and decreed by the court that the said Addison Mitchell, Trustee for the said Parthenia, sell said slaves Stephen and Revy and child at public sale for cash in the town of Murfreesboro. After giving twenty days notice at three or more public places and vest the proceeds of said slaves into other slaves such as the said trustee shall think more beneficial to the said Parthenia and family and would better suit the necessities of the same. It is further ordered, acknowledged and decreed that the said Trustee pay the costs of this cause out of the proceeds arising from the sale of said slaves…
162. June 10, 1848 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s brother, Lewis Shapard, Jr. died in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
163. October 24, 1848 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s daughter, Sarah Shapard, is born in Fayetteville, Tennessee
164. October 1848 (Mathews, Rev. John. Peeps into Life. By Request of the Tennessee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1904.)
Rev. John Mathews was assigned to Fayetteville church from October 1848 through October 1849. He was a very young and inexperienced preacher and this was only his second appointment since being licensed to preach. He reported that the church in Fayetteville was respectable and he was greeted with a warm welcome from the congregation. The membership of the Fayetteville Methodist church for the year 1848 was 38. Fayetteville, at that time had a population of just under 1000 inhabitants.
165. February 1, 1850 (Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the General Assembly)
Sec. 19 Be it enacted, that James Felton, William Bauns, R.A. McDonald, A.F. Nicks, Charles McKinney, Thomas Hind, R.P. Shaphard, Samuel E. Gilleland, Payton Wells and John M. Bright or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books to receive subscriptions for the purpose of building a turnpike road from Fayetteville to the Alabama state line, at a point on or near the Meridian Road… to be completed within four years from the passage of this act… passed February 1, 1850. (signed) Landon C. Haynes – Speaker of the House of Representatives and John F. Henry – Speaker of Senate.
Note: Tolls were placed every 5 miles with a limit of number of tolls per road. Fees in cents were 10 for a person on horseback; 2 per head of livestock (cow, hog, sheep, horse…); 10-25 per wagon depending upon type and number of horses used to pull it. $5 was the fine for nonpayment of toll.
166. June 25, 1850 (Shapard A Family History, pg 107)
Robert’s son, William Shapard, was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Note: Volta Bureau (US), Histories of American Schools for the Deaf, 1817-1893, Vol. 2. Washington D.C.:1893. (pages 17-19). “William Shapard was born at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, August 17, 1830. He was educated at Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was shortly afterward ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.”
Note: Robert’s son, E.R. Shapard, was licensed to preach on March 12, 1859 (from memoirs of E.R. Shapard)
167. August 28, 1850 (Census Lincoln Co., TN)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a merchant, worth $5,000 in real estate, age 45, born in NC and living in District 8, Lincoln County Tennessee. Also listed at his household were: Parthenia Shapard age 41 born in North Carolina; William Shapard age 20 born in Tennessee and working as a preacher; A.E. Shapard female age 13 born in Tennessee and attended school during the year; Edwin Shapard age 11 born in Tennessee and attended school during the year; Robert age 9 born in Tennessee and attended school during the year; Evander age 7 born in Tennessee and attended school during the year; David age 5 born in Tennessee; Sarah age 2 born in Tennessee; J.J. Hodge male age 21 born in Tennessee and is working as a merchant; H. Edmondson age 20 born in Tennessee and is working as a merchant.
Note: John J. Hodge was the nephew of Robert and Parthenia Shapard. He was the son of Parthenia’s older sister, Sarah Curry Mitchell (1800 – 1867) and Rev. Samuel H. Hodge (1800 – 1846). John J. Hodge & Co. would buy-out Booker Shapard’s store in Fayetteville in 1851. He was very well liked, cheerful, upstanding citizen, and a model of sobriety and died at an early age on April 6, 1851 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. After his death, Booker re-purchased his store from his heirs and continued to operate it until September of 1851 when he moved to Pulaski, Tennessee.
1850 Slave Census: District 8 Fayetteville Tennessee: In 1850, Robert Paine Shapard had five slaves; a black male 45 years old, a black female 25 years old, a black male 12 years old, a mulatto female 7 years old and a mulatto female 5 years old.
168. September 26, 1850 (Bedford County Deeds, book I)
The widow of Roberts brother Lewis Shapard, Jr., Thurza, purchased lot # 53 in Shelbyville, Bedford County Tennessee. Lewis was deceased in 1848.
169. October ?, 1850 (Shapard A Family History, pg 166)
Robert’s brother, James Paine Shapard, died in Chapel Hill, Washington, Texas
170. 1851-1853 Fayetteville Tennessee (information gathered from the Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Fayetteville had been improving over the last few years. They had constructed wooden walkways in the streets and alleys to greatly decrease the effects of mud. New houses and businesses had also been constructed. There were three secret societies; Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.), and Sons of Temperance. There was much effort to gain new roads leading to Fayetteville as well as new links to railroads and stage lines, as this meant survival and prosperity for the town. During this time, Fayetteville’s first college, Fayetteville College(eventually named Milton College then Dick White College), was proposed and being built by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It was 138’ long, 40’ wide and 3 stories high with 45 rooms. There were other schools in the area; Fayetteville Female Academy, Fayette Academy, Betty White’s School, Viney Grove Academy and Forrest Hill Academy (located on the Lincoln Co. and Giles Co. line on the road from Fayetteville to Elkton). There were many articles about states’ rights, slavery among the newer states/territories and the right of secession. The political parties seemed to be Whig and Democrats. (R.P. Shapard and A.S. Boone was listed as a Whig). There were two churches mentioned; the Cumberland Presbeterian Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South. There seemed to be much community between these two churches, as when a tornado destroyed the C.P. Church, they were allowed to hold services at the Methodist Church. There were numerous merchants in Fayetteville that advertized their goods and services.
R.P. Shapard placed ads in the Fayetteville Observer alongside his brother, distinguished only by the signature of “Shapard” for Robert, and “B. Shapard” for Booker. On December 17 of 1850, B. Shapard made notice of selling his stock of goods and store, located on the N.E. corner of the public square, known as “Shapard’s Corner”**, to another well known merchant, John J. Hodge. B. Shapard then reacquired his store and merchandise when J.J. Hodge died in April of 1851. B. Shapard is Booker Shapard, brother of R.P. Shapard. Booker lived near Fayetteville in the 1830s and 1840, purchasing land on West Mulberry and a lot on the west side of the Public Square, as well as others. Booker is listed as buying lots of land in Pulaski Co. TN in 1849 and 1850. He operated his business in Fayetteville from about 1848 until September of 1851, when he moved his business and residence to Pulaski.
Robert Paine Shapard also operated his business out of the front room at Shapard’s Corner. He sold clothing, tobacco and ‘segars’, clover seeds, chains, plows, brown sugar, bread, syrup, molasses, flour, salt, candy, pecans, almonds, coffee, rasins, candles, nails, soda, silaratus, window glass, putty, indigo, copperus, powder, lead, shot, white lead, red lead, venetian red, Spanish brown, Prussian blue, chrome yellow, etc… He states in February 23, 1854 that “By the first day of April, I shall retire to the north end of my house where I hope my friends and every person wishing to purchase articles in my line of business, will give me a call – come see the old man and let us have a friendly chat any how.” Robert was in the process of moving to Shelbyville, Tennessee. January 11, 1855 was the last advertisement for “Shapard’s” in the Fayetteville Observer newspaper. On April 6, 1854, a new add was posted, introducing a new company, A.S. Boone and Co., stating that Abner S. Boone, Shields Wilson and Dick Shapard had gone into business together selling dry goods, cutlery, hardware, glass and queensware obtained directly from New York and Philadelphia. Their store opened in “Shapard’s front room” at the same address as the store owned by B. Shapard and Robert Paine Shapard. As Robert moved his merchandise to Shelbyville, he allowed one of the rooms to be occupied by A.S. Boone & Co.
On October 18, 1855 T.C. Goodrich places a notice in the Fayetteville Observer stating “Thomas C. Goodrich takes pleasure in informing his friends and the public generally, that he has purchased the store and dwelling houses formally occupied by R.P. Shapard and will be opening a new stock of fall and winter goods, embracing every article usually kept in a dry goods store. In another add it states that Thomas Goodrich and Sherrod Hunter have formed a co-partnership in the grocery business, under the name of Goodrich and Hunter, located in the “room formally occupied by R.P. Shapard as a grocery store.” This shop was located on the north-east corner of the Square (see T.C. Goodrich article April 9, 1857 page 3). T.C. Goodrich was a dedicated Presbyterian of Fayetteville. He was highly involved in the Lincoln County Bible Society as well as also belonging to the Sons of Temperance. He and R.P. Shapard would have known each other through these organizations.
In late 1853 the Fayetteville Observer began advertizing for numerous merchants located on Depot Street in Shelbyville. By 1854 Shelbyville was clearly on the boom due to the railroad arriving in 1852 (?). One ad in particular was for “Mitchell & Sperry” who were Commission merchants and grocers in Shelbyville on the west side of the square. This may have been C.G. Mitchell, with whom R.P. Shapard went into business after his move to Shelbyville.
The railroad didn’t arrive in Fayetteville until 1856, it arrived in Shelbyville in 1852.
**NOTE: Shapard’s Corner was located on the northeast corner of College Street East and Elk Avenue. It was located next to the Fayetteville Observer Newspaper office, which was on its east. The Newspaper land is now occupied by US Bank (2013). Shapards Corner was occupied by T.C. Goodrich from 1855 – 1869; then occupied by J.E. Coldwell from 1869 – 1880; then occupied by G.N. Ingle until ? as a grocery…in 2013 it is Kent & Assoc. Real Estate.
171. January 11, 1851 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
David Tipps sold a 66 acre tract of land “head water Coldwater in District 19” to R.P. Shapard on January 11, 1851. Recorded in Vol. S-1 page 228 (appears to be a burned record)
172. February 20, 1851 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
W. H. Sneed sold to R.P. Shapard real estate on February 20, 1851. Recorded in Vol. S-1 page 237 (appears to be a burned record)
173. February 25, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
At 3:30 am last Monday night a terrible storm destroyed a huge portion of Fayetteville. “The most heart rendering calamity that has ever befallen our town”. Wind, thunder and lightning destroyed half of the town. The damaging wind only lasted less than a minute and leveled 100 buildings. 3 residents were killed and 40-50 others were wounded. 25 residences were destroyed and these families were now dependent on the hospitality of their neighbors for a place to lay their heads. Listed under “Partial Damages” was “Shapard’s Dwelling”.
174. March 11, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Sons of Temperance**, Fayetteville Division No. 52 – R.P. Shapard was listed as holding the office of “C”.
**Note: The Sons of Temperance was the oldest of many temperance and total abstinence "secret societies" that existed in the United States in the nineteenth century. It was founded in 1842 in New York. By the 1850s there were 5000 chapters. Up until the founding of the Sons of Temperance, temperance and total abstinence societies only required members to pledge that they would abstain from consuming alcohol. The Sons of Temperance took this pledge many steps further: The organization had a highly restricted membership. In order to become a member (called a “brother“), a man had to be nominated by an existing brother. Three other brothers would then investigate his life to determine if they thought he was worthy of membership. The Sons of Temperance required a two-dollar initiation fee, an amount equal to a week’s wages of an ordinary worker. In addition, the weekly membership fee was six cents. It had secret rituals, signs, passwords, handshakes and regalia. It also provided both life and funeral benefits to its members. But their stated aim was blunt and to the point: "to reform drunkards and to prevent others from becoming drunkards." (Source: Wikipedia and Spence, John C. Annals of Rutherford County Vol. 1 & 2. Murfreesboro: Rutherford County Historical Society, 1991.)
175. April 1, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Rev. T.W. Randall, P.E. commenced a protracted meeting at the Methodist Church in this place (Fayetteville) last Tuesday night.
176. April 22, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
The College** – The Cumberland Presbyterian Presbytery which was in session in Winchester two weeks since, appointed the following gentlemen trustees of the college…(among others) R.P. Shapard.
The Citizens Building Committee is J.L. Thompson, J.M. Bright, G.M Steele, R.P. Shapard, F.A. Dickson, and A.T. Nicks.
**Note: The college would eventually be named Milton College and then renamed Dick White College.
177. June 17, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Public Meeting – At a meeting of the citizens at the court house on Saturday 7th inst. for the purpose of making arrangements for the celebration of the approaching “4th of July” …the courtyard was agreed upon as the most eligible place for the ceremony and 10 o’clock as the hour for the assemblage of the people. The following people were appointed a Committee of Arrangements… (among others) R.P. Shapard
178. June 25, 1851 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, John Mitchell Shapard is born in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
179. July 15, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
A session of the Grand Division, Sons of Temperance, commences at Shelbyville Thursday of this week (R.P. S. being an officer of his division, may have attended this meeting?).
180. November 21, 1851 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Fayetteville Mystic Orders, Sons of Temperance. The following is a list of officers of Fayetteville Division No. 52; R.P. Shapard, “T”. This organization meets every Friday night. Other officers included; T.C. Goodrich, W.B. Martin, C.C. McKinney, B.L. Russell, W.M. Todd, A.T. Nicks, J.H. Cobb, J.T. Gordon, Wm. Ables, F. Smith, E.M. Ringo.
181. January 20, 1852 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Sons of Temperance – The following is a list of the officers of the Fayetteville Division No. 52. For the present term; R.P. Shapard, “Chaplin”.
182. 1853 (Nashville City Directory)
Note: Murfreesboro had a population of about 2000 with 5 churches. Shelbyville had a population of about 1,800, with 4 churches and 2 highschools funded by the masons, odd fellows and Sons of Temporance. Note there was a store run by “Mitchell and Sterry” as Grocery Merchants could this be C.G. Mitchell in Shelbyville before Shapard?. Note J.A. Gannaway was also a grocer in Shelbyville (C.G. Mitchell married Gannaway in Oct of 1855 could they have bought out store?)
183. January 20, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
S of T –officers of Fayetteville Division No. 52 Sons of Temperance for the ensuing three months; R.P. Shapard, “Chaplin”. Meetings every Friday night.
184. March 12, 1853 (Republican Banner)
Whig Meeting in Lincoln
Whigs of Lincoln county met at the Court House on Monday the 7th of March, 1853, when Major B. Whitaker was called to the Chair and W.W. McNelley was appointed Secretary. Resolved that the Whigs of Lincoln County suggest Thursday the 31st of March and the city of Nashville, as the proper time and place of holding said convention… In accordance with the provisions of the second Resolution**, the Chairman appointed the following gentlemen as Delegates (to the Convention), viz: …R.P. Shapard (delegate)
**Note: The Convention embodied a group of delegates whose purpose was to nominate a Whig candidate for Governor of Tennessee.
185. March 24, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Martha McCown died in Houston, Texas. She was the wife of J.W. McCown and sister of Robert P. Shapard of this place (Fayetteville).
NOTE: She died on February 23, 1853
186. June 23, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer newspaper)
Lincoln County Bible Society – the anniversary sermon of this society was delivered last Sunday to a large crowd. The following gentlemen have been appointed officers for the ensuing year; T.C. Goodrich and R.P. Shapard – Managers. R.P. Shapard – Soliciting Committee. Voted next anniversary to be held the 3rd Sabbath of 1854 at the Presbyterian Church.
Note: The Lincoln County Bible Society was established as an auxiliary to the American Bible Society; whose mission it was to supply every family in the land with a Bible and Testament. Their members would secure donations from individuals in their communities for the purchase of Bibles, which were then dispersed at no charge to families in need of a Bible.
187. July 14, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Fayetteville Mystic Orders. The following is a list of officers of Fayetteville Division No. 52 Sons of Temperance for the ensuing three months: R.P. Shapard, F.S.
188. September 29, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
On Monday night, 26th inst. a number of the citizens of Fayetteville met at the court house for the purpose of appointing delegates to attend the railroad convention to meet at this place Monday October 3rd… The object of the meeting was explained by the chairman who spoke at length on the subject of railroad improvements – said they were extending from one point to another and in a few years this vast country of ours would be bound together by bonds of iron traversing and ramifying the country in every direction, as a vast net work – binding and riveting the people together by free and general intercourse and a mutuality of interest… The speaker closed in a pathetic appeal to the citizens to go forward in so great and glorious work, a work that would immortalize the names of those who should be so fortunate as to aid in its completion – a work for which after generations will rise up to bless the memories of those who had the wisdom to conceive and the liberality to go forward in the plane line of interest and duty – the speaker too his seat amid the most tremendous applause. List of delegates who were appointed: R.P. Shapard, W. Clark, J.M. Bright, C.A. French, B.H. Berry, P. Ingle, S. Touchstone, L.D. Sagg, J.A. McPhail, D. Smyth, W. Bonner, J.H. Taylor, G.V. Hebb, J.F. Drake, J. Wood, D. Farrar.
189. October 6, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
[Married] In this place Tuesday 4th inst. by Rev A. Driskell Mr. A.S. Boone and Miss Avarilla E. daughter of Mr. R.P. Shapard. For a liberal portion of the good things, as cake, etc. we return thanks to the happy couple with a feverent hope that happiness love and prosperity may ever be with them. May heavens blessings on them rest, and fortune fill their store, at last in heaven may they rest, and live forever more.
NOTE: A.S. Boone was brother to Albert H. Boone (killed in Somersville, Tennessee Dec. 26, 1863); he was brother to Sylvania Cathryn “Kate” Boone who married David Jasper Noblitt on November 22, 1860.
190. October 6, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
The Sons of Temperance were out in procession last Monday and made a very pretty display.
191. October 27, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Sons of Temperance officers for the present term; R.P. Shapard, I.S.
192. November 21, 1853 (Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed in the General Assembly)
An act to establish a college at Fayetteville, in Lincoln county Tennessee
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That a college be established at Fayetteville , in Lincoln county, on the land now owned by the corporation, hereafter mentioned, for the promotion of science and literature, which shall be known and distinguished by the name of Milton College.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That Samuel M. Cowan, William Moore, Edward G.G. Beanland, Albert G. Gibson, James L. Thomson, John M. Bright, Robert P. Shapard, Mathew H. Bone, John Robinson, James M. Davidson, M.H. Roberts, David F. Robertson, George W. Mitchell, L.T. Gray, M.L. Dismukes, P.H. Holbert, and Moses H. Bonner, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a public politic and corporate, to be known by the name of the “Trustees of Milton College,” as aforesaid, and by that name shall have succession for ninety-nine years, and a common seal….
…There shall be two semi-annual meetings of trustees within the college at Fayetteville, on the last Mondays in January and august( unless otherwise agreed to change)
…two-thirds of the board of trustees shall be members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Signed: WM. H. Wisener, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Edwin Polk, Speaker of the Senate
Passed, November 21, 1853
193. December 15, 1853 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
We are requested to state that Fayetteville Division No. 52, Sons of Temperance, will celebrate the night of the 31st of December by public procession and address. Other divisions are respectfully invited to attend.
194. Sometime in 1854 (Shapard A Family History, page 164)
Robert’s brother William Booker Shapard is elected Mayor of Nashville for 3 days. His brother Booker Shapard was elected Mayor of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1853.
Note: The Fayetteville Observer of October 12, 1854, states that the election for the Mayor of Nashville was held on the 30th of September and that W.B. Shapard was elected. The Fayetteville Observer of December 7, 1854, states that “W.B. Shapard resigned the morality of Nashville on the 26th of November because the duties interfered too much with his private business.”
195. March 2, 1854 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Members of the board of trustees of [Milton College] are hereby notified to meet in the C.P. Church, Fayetteville Tennessee at 10 o’clock AM on Wednesday the 29th of March next. Members of the board; R.P. Shapard…
196. June 15, 1854 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
The brick and wood work of Milton College are now completed by the energetic contractor, Col. D.S. Hobbs. So far his contract is concerned the building has been received by the proper committee. This college edifice will ever stand as a monument of the intelligence and liberality of the contributors to its erection. The building being completed, so far as Col. Hobbs was concerned, he is now entitled to immediate compensation for his labor and expense. We have no others to whom we can go except to those who subscribed their names to an obligation to pay for the building. After the committee have endeavored to carry out the will of the subscribers and after Col. Hobbs has encurred heavy expense and performed heavy labor upon the faith of the subscribers, will the subscribers permit him to suffer by withholding his due? We hope not, and we hope that they will be prompt to pay over the means to Mr. Dickerson the receiving agent. To the community we would say, that there will not be a sufficiency of subscribers that can be realized, to finish the plastering and painting the building. The Tennessee Presbytery have agreed to pay $500 towards the plastering; and we would most earnestly request the community to unite with the presbytery and make up the amount, that the building may be prepared for the reception of students the ensuing Fall, by which time it is expected and believed the endowment fund will be fully secured.
R.P. Shapard, Chairman of Committee
June 6, 1854
197. June 26, 1854 (From the Nashville True Whig)
Cholera at Fayetteville.
FAYETVILLE, June 26, 1854
Deaths by cholera in the corporation, 10; immediate vicinity, 8; two miles off, 2; citizens of town after leaving town, 6 — total 29. There has not been less than 175 of the citizens of Fayetteville in the limits of the corporation during the prevalence of cholera. No new cases this morning.
On Norriss's Creek, between this and Shelbyville, Dr. Martin died suddenly of cholera a few days since. I understand there are other cases in the same neighborhood. At Boon's Hill and vicinity cholera and flux are prevailing. On Pen Ridge between this and Huntsville , flux has been prevailing for several weeks.
Yours, &c.
R. P. SHAPARD
Note: From the book by Rev. John Mathews, Peeps into Life, he recalls his appointment to the Fayetteville Circuit from October 1853-October 1854. He said that Fayetteville gave him an unusually hearty welcome and his audiences in the church were large. One Sunday after he had preached twice to the whites and twice to the blacks, he felt ill and the doctor was sent. He was diagnosed with cholera. He was immediately moved to new quarters and quarantined, however the word spread that the Methodist minister had the deadly disease. The town became alarmed and many people fled for safety. As a result, there developed an epidemic which claimed many lives; however, Rev. Mathews recovered through the attention of some dedicated persons of Fayetteville. He recalled, “We had some noble families in Fayetteville – the Shepards, the Hines, the Morgans and others.”
The Fayetteville Observer stated on June 8, 1854 that there were unfounded rumors that Fayetteville had an outbreak of cholera. The following issue of June 15, 1854 listed a number of deaths that had occurred from the disease and stated that the town was resuming heath. By June 20, 1854, the businesses, stores and taverns of Fayetteville had reopened and were resuming normal business due to the passing of the epidemic.
198. August 3, 1854(Tombstone Inscription Old Fayetteville City Cemetery, Fayetteville Tennessee)
Robert’s daughter, Avarilla, died in Fayetteville, Tennessee.
199. August 10, 1854 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Died in this place Thursday 3rd inst. Mrs. Avarilla E. wife of Mr. A.S. Boone, age approximately 18 years.
200. November 9, 1854 (Fayetteville Observer – Lincoln County Tennessee Newspaper)
Trustees of Milton College are requested to assemble at the C.P. Church in this place Monday night 13th inst. a full attendance is earnestly requested as business of importance is to be transacted.
201. January 11, 1855 (Fayetteville Observer)
January 1855 was the last advertisement for “Shapard’s” in the Fayetteville Observer. There was no listing of R.P. Shapard in the list of officers for the Fayetteville Sons of Temperance on Jan 15th, 1855. It is probable that the Shapard family moved to Shelbyville in December of 1854 or early January, 1855. The Fayetteville Observer newspaper was scanned until 1857 and there was no other listing or mention of Shapard that was located.
Note: Shelbyville in 1857 is described as a population of 3,500. At the terminous of a branch of the Nashville Chatanooga Railroad (8 mile long branch). Town had good soil for growing wheat, corn, rye, grass, cotton and tobacco, as well as supporting much animal stock. Shelbyville is a depot for immense trade, especially in the grocery and produce trade. It cometes with Knocksville, Chatanooga and Clarksville as the third most productive town in Tennessee. The University of Shelbyville and the Female Academy are located there.
202. February 8, 1855 (Shapard A Family History, pg 167)
Robert’s brother Booker, after again being widowed, married Ann Leftwich in Florence, Alabama.
203. March 5, 1855 (Tombstone inscription Old city Cemetery Murfreesboro Tennessee)
Robert’s sister, Sophia, died in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
204. September 7, 1855 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, sold to Thomas C, Goodrich, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, for the sum of $4,700 a brick house and lot situated in the town of Fayetteville, Lincoln County Tennessee. It being the same house and lot conveyed by Booker Shapard to Robert P. Shapard by deed bearing the date of March 26, 1855…
(Signed) R.P. Shapard, September 7, 1855
Recorded: September 10, 1855
205. September 7, 1855 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
Thomas C. Goodrich, of Lincoln County Tennessee, sold to R.P. Shapard, of Lincoln County Tennessee, for the sum of $2,000 a certain piece or lot of land, known and designated in the plan of the town of Fayetteville as Lot No. 20 and also a part of Lot No. 25, except that part of Lot No. 25 sold to N.F. Neil by deed bearing the date March 25, 1854. Property sold to R.P. Shapard is described as: “Beginning at the south east corner of lot No. 20, running from thence east 68 feet, thence north eight poles to the north boundary of said lot No. 25, thence west with said north boundary 68 feet to the north east corner of said lot No. 20, thence south with the same to the beginning.”
(Signed) Thomas C. Goodrich, September 7, 1855
Recorded: September 10, 1855
206. September 7, 1855 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
Thomas C. Goodrich sold to R.P. Shapard for the sum of $2,000 a Negro woman slave named Esther, aged about 27 years, and her three children; Fanny aged about 6 years, Hellen aged about 5 years, and John aged about 18 months. Thomas C. Goodrich warranted the title to said slaves against all lawful claims, as well as warranted the slaves to be “sound, healthy, sensible and slaves for life.”
(Signed) Thomas C. Goodrich, September 7, 1855
Recorded: September 10, 1855
207. November 10, 1855 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
W.H. Smith owned and lived on two-sevenths interest of a tract of land known as Harpers tract in District 19 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. Mr. Smith became endebted and offered his deed to this land to his creditors if he was not able to pay his debt before a certain date. Mr. Smith was not able to pay his debt so Tarpley Flynt, the trustee of W.H. Smith, held a public auction for the land; upon which, R.P. Shapard was the highest bidder, offering $250, and obtaining the deed for the land.
(Signed) T. Flynt, Trustee of W.H. Smith, November 10, 1855
208. December 26, 1855 (Fayetteville Lincoln County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard, of Bedford County Tennessee, sold to Sarah F. Jones for the sum of $1,500 a certain piece or lot of land, known and designated in the plan of the town of Fayetteville as Lot No. 20 and also a part of Lot No. 25, except that part of Lot No. 25 sold to Newton F. Neil by deed bearing the date March 25, 1854. Property sold to Sarah F. Jones is described as: “Beginning at the south east corner of lot No. 20, running from thence east 68 feet, thence north eight poles to the north boundary of said lot No. 25, thence west with said north boundary 68 feet to the north east corner of said lot No. 20, thence south with the west boundary to the beginning.” This being the same lot that R.P. Shapard purchased from T.C. Goodrich on September 7, 1855.
(Signed) R.P. Shapard, December 26, 1855
Recorded: March 24, 1856
209. February 8, 1856 (The Daily Sun, Columbus, Georgia, gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu)
Shapard & Mitchell Wholesale Grocers, Forwarding and Commission Merchants, and dealers in iron, castings, etc., south side of the Public Square, Shelbyville Tennessee. References (lists many names from Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA.; Chattanooga, TN.; Macon, GA.; Columbus, GA.;Savanah, GA.; Charleston, SC.)
210. September 24, 1856 (Bedford County Deeds)
Samuel G. Hayes sold to R.P. Shapard for the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars a certain tract as parcel of land in Bedford County, Tennessee, district no. 7 and in the cooperate limits of the town of Shelbyville and known as Lot no. 97: Beginning at a stake in the north edge of Lain Street, it being the south east corner of said lot, running thence north to a stake in the south edge of an alley running west from a little spring, thence west along the south edge of said street or alley to a stake in the north east corner of lot No. 104, thence south with the east boundary of lot No. 104 to a stake in the north edge of Lain Street, thence east with said street to the beginning…
(Signed ) Samuel G. Hays, September 24, 1856
Witness: C.G. Mitchell, J.W. Jordan
Registered: September 24, 1856
Re-registered due to burned records: April 16, 1866
Note: This is the same land that R.P. Shapard would sell to Jane Black on April 2, 1864
211. November 11, 1856 (Shapard A Family History, pg 108)
Robert’s son, William, married Susan Emily Hall (in Davidson County, Tennessee?)
212. 1857 (Nashville Business Directory Vol. III – 1857 -with relevance to Bedford county Tennessee)
Shapard, R.P listed as wholesale grocer and commission merchants with G.C. Mitchell located on Depot
Street (page 263)
“R.P. Shapard C.G. Mitchell, Shapard and Mitchell, Wholesale Grocers, Forwarding and Commission Merchants and dealers in Iron Castings, etc., Depot Street, Shelbyville, Tennessee. Special attention paid to the purchase and sale of all kinds of country produce.”
“See advertisement of Messrs. Shapard and Mitchell Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, Depot Street. Ripe experience, business integrity and prompt attention to the demands of a large trade, explains the secret of their success.”
213. March 16, 1857 (Daily Nashville Patriot)
List of Letters – Remaining uncalled for in the Post Office at Nashville, March 15th, 1857: -
…Shepard & Mitchel
214. April 2, 1857 (Republican Banner)
Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee* – At an election of Directors held on the first day of March, 1857, at their Banking House in Shelbyville, the following gentlemen were elected Directors to manage its affairs for the next year: Edmund Cooper, James F. Cummings, W.W. Gill, R.S. Dwiggins, Thomas H. Coldwell, R.P. Shapard, J.H. McGrew, C. A. Warren and Wm. Little. Edmund Cooper was re-elected President and Wm. S. Jett – Cashier.
*Note: Prior to the establishments of banks in Tennessee, barter was the major for m of exchange. The first state bank in Tennessee was established in 1807. These early banks were established by the prominent citizens and businessmen of their communities, and had the authority of the state to issue their own currency. This practice prevailed until the United States Congress passed the National Banking Act of June 3, 1864, which began to centralize the banking system.
*Note: The Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee was located on the north side of Depot Street, fronting the street in a brick house. It seems that the bank did not survive the War, as The Shelbyville Savings Bank occupied the same building on Depot Street when founded in 1867.
215. June 5, 1857 (The Expositor- Shelbyville newspaper)
(Advertisement)
Shapard & Mitchell, Wholesale and retail grocers, receiving and forwarding merchants, and dealers in country produce, Depot Street, Shelbyville, Tennessee.
Groceries. We are now receiving direct from New Orleans: Brown Sugar, Loaf, Crushed Loaf, Pulverized Loaf, Molasses, Tea, Coffee, Oranges, Raisins, Pecans, Filberts, Almonds, Matches, Tacks, Allspice, Pepper, Ginger, Figs, Soda, Alum, Brimstone, Muddor, Dimijohns, Painted Buckets, Painted tubs, Grass and Cotton Rope, Cotton Cords, Churns, with a thousand other articles, all of which we sell cheap for cash, wholesale or retail.
Nails and Castings. We have just received from the manufactory, 100 Kegs Nails, 4 ton Hollow Ware Castings, 2 ton Wagon boxes and 1 ton Dog Irons, at wholesale or retail, cheap for cash.
Light. 30 Boxes Star Candles 30 half Boxes Star Candles, 30 qr. Boxes Star Candles, cheap for cash at wholesale or retail.
Iron. A full assortment of the best Tennessee Iron always on hand.
Sundries. There is no use we guess in trying to enumerate all the different articles we have, it would fill the Expositor. Call and see.
Note: The Expositor ran the same ad in the October 15, 1858 issue with the following additions at the end;
“Look Here! From and after this day we will sell groceries FOR CASH ONLY. Send the money with your orders, or they will be sent back empty. January 1, 1858.
A Loud Call! We are owing money that must be paid, and in order to meet the demands on us, those owing us must come up and pay us. Money we must have. We mean what we say. A word to the wise is sufficient. January 1, 1858.”
216. July 14, 1857 (Nashville Union and American)
List of stockholders, Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee
Edmund Cooper (1712 shares) $20,930; Coldwell Cummings & Co. (956 shares) $17,000; William Jett (500) $10,000; J.H. McGrew (200) $3,000; William Little (500) $10,000; Thomas M. Coldwell (50) $2,500; John W. Cowan (10) $1,000; John F. Neil (20) $2,000; Eucid Waterhouse (900) $17,000; W.W. Gill (100) $1,000; Charles Warren (50) $5,000; R.S. Dwiggins (1) $10;Jo. H. Thompson (1); Jo. Thompson (1); Thomas C. Whiteside (1); R.P. Shapard (1) $10; Thomas H. Coldwell (1); Jno Sperry (1); J.W. Wallace, dec’d (1)
Note: R.P. Shapard held one share in Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee during the year of 1858.
The Bank of Tennessee was headquartered in Nashville and developed a branch in Shelbyville. It issued its own currency and was operated by local politicians and businessmen.
217. 1858 (Mooney, Sue F. Dromgoole. My Moving Tent. Nashville: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1903. Page 71.)
“Rev. S.S. Moody was our Presiding Elder and lived in Shelbyville. Mr. Whiteside lived in a “Big Brick” and his daughters, Mary and Ruth were frequent visitors, running over for a little chat or to talk of some new book or to tell of some new thing. Dr. Lipscomb was a prominent physician, living on the right of the road as you went to town. The leading merchant was Mr. Robert Mathews. Arch Hughes was also a merchant businessman. In Shelbyville there were some good true Methodists, but the Methodist church was not in the ascendancy, neither numerically nor financially. Not many rich, not many great were called, but there were some of the salt of the earth, some of the light of the world… Sunday school was superintended by brother Jones and singing was led by Sam Morton, while Robert Shapard seemed to be the mainspring of the whole movement…
Note: Carter, Cullen T. History of Methodist Churches and Institutions in Middle Tennessee. Nashville: The Parthenon Press, 1956. The first Methodist Church of Shelbyville was organized in 1820 at the Salem Camp Ground which was where religious meetings were held as early as 1808. The first church building was a frame construction located on Depot Street and was destroyed by a tornado in 1830. The next church building was of more substantial construction. A brick building was erected at a cost of $3,000 and was located two blocks down the hill from the town square on what is now North Main Street. This church building lasted until 1880 when the church moved to a new location on the Northwest corner of the town square.
Note: Woodruff, Charles M. Sr. The First United Methodist Church of Shelbyville, Tennessee A History Commemorating the Bicentennial of Methodism in America. 1986. David Green Shapard and Evander Shapard are listed as Trustees of the church on the deed of the new church from 1879. The first Shelbyville Sunday school was established in 1845 and the first missionary society was founded in 1846 and was composed of all men. David Green Shapard was the Sunday School Superintendant in 1884, and Evander Shapard took the job in 1889.
218. January 9, 1858 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s son, John Mitchell Shapard, died in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
219. March 3, 1858 (The Daily Constitutionalist, Agusta, Georgia, gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu)
Markets – Shelbyville Tenn. Feb 25 – since our last business havs been very active. There have been some heavy transactions in bacon and wheat. cotton – selling at from 7 to 10 ½ cents; Bacon – There is an increased demand at advertising prices. We now quote Bacon at 7 ¾ @ 8 c. hog round; Wheat – Shapard & Mitchell sold for shipment some 5000 bushels at 70 @ 80 c., sack included. Very little in market – white brings 69 @ 70, Red 50 @ 60 cents. Lard selling at 8 @ 8 ¼ cents; Seeds – clover seed____. Feathers – 30 cents P lb.
220. April 4, 1858 (Republican Banner)
Shelbyville Bank of Tennessee – At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Shelbyville Bank, held at the Banking House on the 27th, the following persons were elected Directors for the ensuing twelve months, viz., Edmund Cooper, T. M. Coldwell, T. H. Coldwell, John W. Cowan, W.W. Gill, Wm. Little, R.S. Dwiggins, R.P. Shapard, J.H. McGrew.
221. March 12, 1859 (Chancery Court Records of Bedford County, Tennessee)
Explanation of Addison Mitchell and Parthenia Shapard. Be it remembered that this came on for final hearing before the Honorable B. L. Ridley, Chancellor, etc. upon the petition and report of the Clerk and Master and is appealing to the satisfaction of the Court from the proof that R. P. Shapard is a prudent and suitable person to become the trustee of the said Parthenia. The court is therefore pleased to order and decree that the said R. P. Shapard shall be appointed her trustee to take charge of the estate mentioned in the petition or of any other estate she may be entitled to as one of the children and heirs at law of William Mitchell deceased. R. P. Shapard giving bond and security in double the value of the amount of said estate mentioned in the petition satisfaction to the Clerk and Master and is hereby granted to the said R. P. Shapard for executing said bond until may rule.
Be it remembered that this came to be herd upon the exparte petition of Addison Mitchell and Parthenia Shapard. The court not being satisfied whether the said R. P. Shapard is a suitable person to take charge of the trusteeship. It is therefore ordered by the court that the case be referred to the Clerk and Master to take proof.
Report. We the Clerks and Master to whom was referred the above named came to take proof would respectfully report that because W. Lytle, George W. Buchanan and Thomas Coldwell, who being called and sworn state that they are well acquainted with R. P. Shapard and have known him for several years. That he is prudent, industrious and businessman and would not be likely to squander the property of his wife and is a suitable person to become the trustee of his wife from which proof the Clerk and Master is satisfied the he is a suitable person to become such trustee all of which is respectfully submitted.
W. J. Whitthome, C & M
222. April 5, 1859 (Bedford County Court Minutes, page 373)
This day Mrs. G,W. Ruth appeared in open court and ___ from the ___will of her deceased husband, G.W. Ruth and it is ordered Wm. Gellworth, C.G. Mitchell and R.P. Shapard be appointed ___ or to buy off one year ___ for her and her family.
223. June 13, 1859 (Shapard A Family History, pg 170)
Robert’s brother, Shapard, died in Hempstead, Texas
224. April 1860 (Nashville Union and American)
Note: This case was tried before a jury of Bedford County, at the April Term of 1860, who rendered a verdict in favor of Cummings. Judge Hugh L. Davidson, presiding. John P. Steele was the attorney for the plaintiffs (Shapard & Mitchell) and Edmund Cooper & Thomas H. Coldwell were the attorneys for the defendant (Cummings). Apparently, Shapard & Mitchell rented a warehouse for one year beginning in January 1 until December 31; However, they did not give notice that they did not want to rent for an additional year until 23 days into the following year (1858) and retained the key to the premises. The landlord, Cummings, felt it was in his right to collect rent for an additional year, as it was a year-to-year lease, of which the courts agreed. Shapard & Mitchell appealed to the Supreme Court of Tennessee which also found in favor of Cummings, setting law precedent for “hold over” rent cases.
(From the May 17, 1861 Nashville Union and American)
Sheppard and Mitchell vs. Cummings.
This suit was instituted by Cummings to recover of the plaintiffs in error the rent of a warehouse and lot in the town of Shelbyville, for the year 1858, and judgment being in his favor they appeal to this Court. The facts of the case are these: One Knott, who was the owner of the warehouse and lot, had leased the same for a term of yens to Cummings, at an annual rent of $450, and the lease did not expire until the 1st of January, 1859. At the close of the year 1856 Cummings, without writing, sublet the warehouse and lot for the unexpired term, at the same rate of rent to the plaintiffs in error, who entered into and occupied the same for the year 1857, and paid the rent of that year to Cummings. They also continued the use and occupation of the warehouse and let until the 23d of January, 1858, when they left the same vacant and went elsewhere to do business, but retained in their possession the key of the warehouse until the end of that year, when they surrendered it to one Warren, who succeeded them in the possession - he having purchased, the reversion of Knott. Cummings knew that the plaintiffs in error had left the warehouse and lot vacant, but they did not give him any notice of their intention to do so, or desire him to take the property back, or to make any other disposition of it, or offer to restore him the key. It was in proof that one Johnson wanted the use of the house for a short period in February, 1858 for a ball, and applied to the plaintiffs in error for it, and they sent him to Cummings with instructions to tell him that they had no control over the house
and nothing to do with it; and Johnson did go to Cummings and tell him this as coming from the plaintiffs in error; but Cummings refused to let him have it, stating that he had rented it to the plaintiffs in error, that he must go to them, that they alone had authority to 'dispose of it. It was also proved that it was the custom to rent houses at the first of the year and that they rented more readily at that, than at any other time, of the year. Among other things not excepted to, the Circuit Judge instructed the jury : that a parol lease for more than one year cannot be enforce because within the statute frauds. Such a lease is good for one year, and the tenant who is in under such a contract holds over for a portion of the ensuing year, the landlord may elect to treat him as a tenant from year to year, and recover the value of the premises as upon a lease for one year. Though the agreement between them and Cummings be void by the statute of frauds as to the duration of the lease, it must regulate the terms on which the tenancy subsists in other respect, as to the rent, the time of the year when the tenant is to quit, &c. So where a tenant holds over after the expiration of his term, without having entered into any new contract, he holds upon the former terms. The relation between these parties must be construed to be that of a tenancy from year to year, and each party was bound to give the other reasonable notice of an intention to terminate the estate. If they suffered the second year to commence without putting an end to the relation, Cummings was entitled to the whole year's rent, and the plaintiffs in error, as his tenants, could not determine the estate in the middle of the year- If this could be done the landlord might lose his rent all together, at least for a good part of the year. Having entered upon the premises for a second year. Cummings had a right to expect that they would continue to hold and pay rent for that entire year, and they cannot be allowed capriciously to disappoint his expectations. The authorities in support of the judgment of the Circuit Court are very numerous Doe on the demise of Riggs vs. Bell, 6 term, R-470: Birch vs. Wright, 1 term, R 378 : Leighton vs. Theed, 2 Salk, 413: 13 John R 240 : 4 Kent 110-116. Besides, upon the facts in this case it is the same, in legal effect, as if the plaintiff in error had actually occupied the premises for the entire year. They retained the key and made no attempt to put an end to the tenancy. Whether the plaintiff in error", without notice to Cummings, could, at the end of the first, and before they entered upon the second year, have terminated the estate, is a question we need not consider.
Affirm the judgment, Wright.
Correct copy, J. P. Clark, Clerk
225. June 2, 1860 (Census Bedford County, Tennessee)
Robert Paine Shapard, was a merchant with $1,500 in real estate and $15,000 in personal estate. Evander, David Green, and Sarah were still living at their parent’s house in Shelbyville, as well as four slaves; a 27 year old female mulatto, a 16 year old female mulatto, a 14 year old female mulatto and a 6 year old black male. **
**Note: These were most likely the slaves that R.P. Shapard purchased from Thomas C. Goodrich in 1855; Esther (mother) and three children, two girls named Fanny and Hellen, and a boy named John.
226. 1861 (Bedford County Deeds – burned records)
J.C. Shapard deeded to R.P. Shapard (DDD 77)
227. January 26, 1861 (Bedford County Deeds – burned records)
R.S. Dwiggins sold a trust deed to Shapard & Mitchell
228. February 4, 1861 (Bedford County Deeds – burned records)
J.A. Blakemore sold a deed to R.P. Shapard, et al.
229. April 3, 1861 (Daily Nashville Patriot)
A correction from Tennessee – To the Editor of the N.Y. Tribune:
Sir: In your daily of the 26th of February, we find an article, purporting to be a letter from this place, in regard to public opinion in Bedford county, in Tennessee, on the subject of slavery. This letter does not speak the sentaments of this community upon the question to which it refers. It has produced some excitement here, and a number of persons have been suspected of its authorship, and injustice may, therefore, be done individuals who are or may be erroneously suspected. – We have two objects in writing this letter, one is to vindicate this community, and the other is to learn who the author is – not for the purpose of inflicting, by any means, any personal violence on him, whoever he may be, but that we may know who among us is misrepresenting public opinion so egregiously as that communication does the sentiments of the people here. We, therefore, respectfully request you send us the original letter, that we may know by inspection of the manuscript who the real author is. It may be in the name of one person, and written by another. How this is, of course we do not know. If you cannot consistently with your sense of propriety send us the original letter, write us the name of the author. We think we have, under the circumstances, a right to make the demand we do, and hope you will not refuse our request, either of the letter or the name of its author. The former we prefer. Let us hear from you upon the subject.
Respectfully, your obedient servants,
Shapard & Mitchell, Wm. H. Wisener, T. B. Ivie, D.S. Evans, Edmund Frierson, J.H. Thompson, Thomas M. Coldwell, W.J. Cochran, S..A. Strickler, Wm. Gosling, Henry Cooper, Thomas C. Whiteside, Joseph H. Thompson, J.A. Blakemore, Alex. Eakin, Matt Martin, R.F. Evans, Wm. Galbraith, Thos. B. Cannon, Wm. S. Speer, W. Frierson, Lewis Tillman, J.H. McGrew.
Shelbyville, Tenn., March 13, 1861
Note: The letter refered to from the New York Daily Tribune of February 26, 1861 reads as such :
From Shelbyville, Tennessee.
The people have risen in their strength to put down the vile serpent of Secession, which would wind its slimy form around our people and crush out every patriotic feeling in their bosoms. Tennessee has shown that she will not be led astray by the delusive eloquence of political demagogues and intriguing office-seekers. In our State “freedom of speech” is beginning to be respected. A few man can express his opinion of slavery pro or con with no fear of being molested by fanatical fire-eaters. From indications shown during the last three weeks, I think that I can safely say that in the next four years a Republican ticket in this State will make an excellent run. I know that this country will give a majority in favior of a Republican. A man need only show his hand, and stick up to it, and he will succeed. Let a man run in this State with the principal inscribed on his banner that, “all men are created free and equal,” and he will get a majority in four years from now. I have heard many substantial men say, during the last month, that they would “willingly, cheerfully, give up every negro (they had them), if it would save the Union.” There are many men in this State who are patiently waiting for the right opportunity to declare their abhorrence and detestation of the hoirrible “moral and social evil” which now exists in the South. There is a report extant here saying that a bill is about to be, or was, introduced by a member of Congress to purchase the slaves in Tennessee, and make her a free state. It is usless to expend money in that way, for the time is not far distant when Tennessee will open her eyes, and see the great sin of Slavery. I pray God that that time will soon come. Stand to your principles, and trust in God. If coercion is attempted (and it ought to be), there are thousands in Tennessee who will fight for this glorious Union. There is a Union flag floating above our town. It is saluted each night by a Union company. Three-fourths of the people of this county will vote for the total abolition of Slavery rather than have this Union dissolved.
230. September 10, 1861 (Shapard A Family History, pg 108)
Robert’s son, William Shapard, joined the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army on September 10, 1861.
231. October 11, 1861 (The Expositor – Shelbyville newspaper)
Public Meeting.
At a meeting of the citizens of Shelbyville and its vicinity for the purpose of taking into consideration the fact that Capt. Abner Boon’s company was going into the service of the Confederate States, and the importance of making suitable provisions for the members of his company to prepare them for active service, the following proceedings were had:
Upon motion the Hon. William H. Wisener was called to the chair, and George W. Buchanan, was appointed secretary, when the object of the meeting was explained by the Chairman, and in accordance with the same a list was suggested for subscriptions, when a number of persons came forward and subscribed the sums annexed to their names – and the following committee was appointed to continue to raise donations: T.B. Ivie, W.J. Cochran, C.G. Mitchell, J.L. Scudder, L. Tillman, Alexander Sanders, Garret Phillips, W.W. Gill, W.A. Allen, and Jo H. Thompson, and report the same.
On motion it was ordered that these proceedings be published in the Shelbyville Expositor, and that a list of the subscribers be published from time to time. On motion the meeting was adjourned. W.H. Wisener, Ch’m. Geo. W. Buchanan, Sec’y.
We the undersigned promise to pay the sums annexed to our name for the purpose of clothing the company of Capt. Boon, and pay the same to any committee appointed for that purpose.
(long list of names and amounts)
Shappard & Mitchell - $75.00
Note: The ‘Shelbyville Rebels’ was organized by Captain A.S. Boone (Robert Paine Shapard’s son-in-law). From the Nashville American, November 9, 1901 “Shelbyville Rebels” – “Perhaps every member of it violently opposed secession and voted against it. Nor did many of them give up their devotion to the Union until a very short while before their names were enrolled as members of this company.”
232. November 2, 1861 (Shapard A Family History, pg 186)
Robert’s son, Evander Shapard, entered the 41st Infantry of Tennessee of the Confederate Army on November 2, 1861. It was his 18th birthday.
233. February 27, 1862 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States to Shapard and Mitchell February 27, 1862
534 barrels flour at $9 $4806
Five car loads of above flour at Tullahoma, Tennessee and balance stored at Manchester, Tennessee.
I certify that the above account is correct and just and that the articles have been accounted for on return of division for February 1862
John T Thoaff, Capt. CSA
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee, 27 day of February, 1862 of J.T Thoaff, Capt. CSA the sum of 4,806 dollars in full of the above account.
Shapard and Mitchell
234. March 12, 1862 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States to Shapard and Mitchell March 12, 1862
[number ?] Peas 7947 1.25 $184.76
211 Beans 2449 1.35 $77.43
$262.19
I certify that the above account is correct and necessary to the public service. Received at Tupulo Mississippi June 18, 1862 of W.E. Moore, Commissary Subsistanr CSA 262 dollars and 19 cents in full of above.
Shapard and Mitchell
I certify the above to be correct and just and the articles were bought by order of Gen. Harder [?] March 11, 1862 J.F. Cummings, Commissary
Capt W.E. Moore ACS, 3rd Army Corps is devoted to pay the therein bill the articles specified having been purchased for was of my division. Captain Cummings having acted under my instruction, though failing to account for supplies …[?]… 3rd Corps AM. Tupelo, June 14, 1862 WM [?] Hardee, Maj. Gen.
235. June 27, 1862 (The Papers of Andrew Johnson 1861-1862, Vol. 5, pg 510-511)
Letter from Alexander P. Smith in Fayetteville dated June 27, 1862 to A. Johnson care of R.P. Shapard.
Note: R.P. Shapard (1805-1871) native of North Carolina was a commission merchant with 1500 in real estate and 15,000 in personal property… (find record)
236. July 25, 1862 (Union Service records, Fold3)
Robert’s son, Robert Addison Shapard, joined the 1st Regiment of Middle Tennessee Volunteer Calvary of the U.S. Army on July 25, 1862, in Nashville, Tennessee. Robert Addison is listed as having been born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, was 21 years of age, employed as a clerk, blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion and 5’ 9”. He joined the day after his 21st birthday.
237. November 21, 1862 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States of America to Shapard and Mitchell November 21, 1862
2246/ Twenty two hundred and forty six ___[item ?]___ $405.70
6/ six buckets $1.00 each 6.00
411.70
I certify that the above account is correct and just and that the article will be accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending the 31 day of December, 1862.
JF Cummings, Capt. and Assistant Quartermaster
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee, 21 day of November 1862. Capt JF Cummings, Capt. and Assistant Quartermaster of the CSA the sum of 411 dollars and 70 cents in full of the above account.
Shapard and Mitchell
Note: Confederate records came into the custody of the US War Department by the surrender at the end of the war. These records were organized by the War Records Office during 1874-1899 to document the activity of the government and individuals serving the Confederate States of America.
238. November 21, 1862 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States of America to Shapard and Mitchell November 21, 1862
6/ six pair ___[item ?]___ at $2.00 each $12.00
I certify that the above account is correct and just and that the article will be accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending the 31 day of December, 1862.
JF Cummings, Capt. and Assistant Quartermaster
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee, 21 day of November 1862. Capt JF Cummings, Capt. and Assistant Quartermaster of the CSA the sum of 12 dollars and 0 cents in full of the above account.
Shapard and Mitchell
239. January 29, 1863 (Civil war service records, Union, 5th Cavalry Tennessee; from Fold3 for Robert A. Shepard)
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 29, 1863
General,
On hearing of the shooting affray last evening between Lieutenant Shappard and Private West of “C” Co. 1st Mid. Tenn. Cav’y, I directed the immediate arrest of the officer mentioned and had the witnesses brought before me and their sworn statements taken. The sum of these statements is that yesterday at a courier post on the Shelbyville pike where this officer met West and five or six other privates were stationed, an altercation arose in regard to a canteen of whiskey between the two parties mentioned, in which West finally accused Lieut. S. of having stolen the liquor. This he did twice – the second time Lieut. S. asked him if he was in earnest. West answered that he was, whereupon the officer fired his pistol at him twice, both shots taking effect. Lieut. S. had been drinking from the canteen and offered it to West and the others. All the witnesses agree that the parties were both quite drunk. Not knowing what disposal to make of him, I send him to you for such action in the case as you may deem best.
I am General, very respectfully your obt servt,
Wm. M. Wiles, Capt. & PMG
Note: R.A. Shapard enlisted on July 25, 1862 as a Private, was commissioned as Lieutenant on September 2, 1862. He was arrested on January 28, 1863 for shooting another soldier while drunk. He was court marshaled and Cashiered and mustered out of service on March 17, 1863.
On April 11, 1863, Lt. Col. Robert Galbrailh, an acquaintance of R.A. Shapard sent a letter vouching for his character to Headquarters…”I have known him for a number of years, he having been reared in the same community with myself. And he was the only one of five brothers, who espensed the cause for which we are now fighting. Prior to his enlisting regularly in the Army, he rendered quite efficient Service to the Federal Commander in the Section of Country South of this, in the capacity of guide and Scout. And as are evidences of his dedication to the Union, when Col. Stokes announced the fact that he intended to raise a Regiment, Lt. Shapard and myself were the first to respond to the call, having enlisted the day after the Col. Received his authority, and up to the time the Regt. Commenced active service, he labored earnestly on its behalf. And to the day of the unfortunate trasaction his conduct had been exceptional, and was a good example to his fellow officers, None were ever more ready or prompt to obey orders, than he….”
On January 31, 1863, Col. W.B. Stokes also vouched for Robert A. Shapard’s character; “I take great pleasure in making it known that I have always regarded Lieut. Shappard as good officer, always willing and ready for duty…”
NOTE: Private West was Freeman L. West of C Company, 1 Reg’t Middle Tennessee Cav.; 5 Cav. Tennessee. He was 40 years old, 5 foot 10 inches high, fair complection, blue eyes, dark hair. He was born in Erie Co. Pennsylvania and was a carpenter. He enlisted on August 19, 1862 in Nashville by Lt. Galbranth. He was detached on the courier line by order of Gen. Stanley in Jan. 1863. He was reported to have been sent to hospital in Murfreesboro on Jan. 28, 1863 and remained in hospital until August 1863. He was discharged from service on April 21, 1863 on account of not being fit for duty due to wounds received while in service.
240. April 4, 1863 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States of America to Shapard and Mitchell April 4, 1863
1/ For rent of house for Post Commissary Store from 8th March to 31st March inclusive 24 days at $37.50 per month.
I certify that the above account is correct and just and that the building was rented and occupied by the Post Commissary as stated.
JJ Murphy, Maj. and Chief ____Post Commissary
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee, on 4th day of April, 1863. $30. R.M. Mason AQMCSA [Assistant Quartermaster CSA]
Shapard and Mitchell
241. April 15, 1863 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Confederate States of America to Shapard and Mitchell April 15, 1863
100 shots $4.50
I certify that the above account is just and correct and that the articles therein specified were needed for public service and are to be accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending 30 day of June, 1863.
W.D. Beard, Maj. and Quartermaster
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee the 15 day of April, 1863 of Maj. W.D. Beard Quartermaster of the CSA 4 dollars and 50 cents in full of the above account.
Shapard and Mitchell
242. May 22, 1863 (Confederate Citizen’s File, Fold3)
Bill of purchase in Quartermaster Department
Confederate States of America to Shapard and Mitchell May 22, 1863
514 Steel at 35 cents $179.90
I certify, on honor, that the above account is correct and just . That the article specified was needed for public service and to be accounted for on my property return for the quarter ending 30 day of June, 1863 and that I have paid the amount in full.
R.M. Mason, Quartermaster
Recorded at Shelbyville Tennessee, the 3 day of June 1863 of Major R.M. Mason, Quartermaster Army of the CSA 179 dollars and 90 cents in full of the above account.
Shapard and Mitchell
243. Approx June 27, 1863 (Heritage Quest, interview Don Whiteside, Thomas Whiteside Family)
“Flight from Shelbyville”
The Army of Tennessee was falling back from Shelbyville where I had become slightly acquainted with the ladies of the Whiteside family. My Battery was camped north of the city and when we were preparing to move south under orders to retire, I left the Battery in charge of the 1st Lieutenant and rode to town to say goodbye to ladies at home place. On arriving, I found the yard full of officers who had come for similar purpose, among them many known to me ardent admirers (and suitors) of the young ladies, Maggie and Ruth Whiteside. I remember these two girls and Mrs. Mitchell were in the front yard…Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Maggie were quite excited over the prospect of being left to meet the Yankee Army after we were away and Mrs. Mitchell’s situation was more distressing because Capt. Mitchell was with Cleburne’s Division at Wartrace and would go back from there and so be separated from her without her seeing him. Their distress caused me to ask Lieutenant Ingraham, of Smith’s Battery, known to be one of Maggie’s admirers, why he did not advise some men to take them out of the city…[They were removed from the city as the Confederate Army retreated past their house. Their luggage was prepared in advance and removed prior to their departure by transferring the corn from the forage teams to the four mule wagon. They escaped to Tullahoma by that night where Mrs. Mitchell met Mr. Mitchell there.] W.W. Carves, written in 1919
Note: Whiteside is the family that Sallie Shapard married into in 1871 (Thomas Cooper Whiteside, Jr.). “Maggie” was Margaret Whiteside (1840-1919) and Ruth was Ruth Chaffin Whiteside (1843-1873). Mrs. Mitchell was Mary E. Whiteside (1839-1893) who married Capt. Thomas P. Mitchell (1843-1864). He was killed while trying to visit his family behind Union lines. All three of these ladies were sisters to Thomas C. Whiteside, Jr.
Note: Brigade was reorganized on May 26, 1862 consisting of 1st,6th,9th,21st Tenn. Inf. Reg. and Smith’s Battery. By June 30, 1862 the 27th replaced the 21st. From Cornith it moved to Tupelo, Miss. then to Tullahoma and then to Shelbyville and finally to Chattanooga for the invasion of Kentucky. The Brigade retreated back into Tennessee and participated in the Battle of Murfreesboro on Dec. 31, 1862. They went into winter quarters at Shelbyville, leaving on June 27, 1863 to march to Chattanooga, which they reached on July 7, 1863.
Note: “15th Anniversary of the Battle of Shelbyville,” Nashville Tennessean and Nashville American, June 28, 1913. The day before General Braggs army fell back and General Rosecrans Federal troops at Murfreesboro advanced…(General Wheeler covered General Braggs retreat at Shelbyville)…Last trains loaded with Confederate supplies left Shelbyville at 1 o’clock. Travel was hard as there had been heavy rains for a week. 100s of citizens were at the train depot and were allowed to help themselves to supplies the army could not transport out. At 6 o’clock the Federals engaged Wheelers Cavalry in a running fight for 8 miles down the Murfreesboro Pike. 2 cannons placed on Martin Street near the Public Square and fired 6 shots killing federal soldiers (Federal cannons fired back, over shooting the Public Square and hitting houses). On Depot Street there were several saber duels. The canon broke the Scullcamp bridge and fell into the water killing many Confederate soldiers. On June 28 the entire Federal force evacuated Shelbyville in pursuit of Gen. Bragg and for 10 days there were no soldiers of either army at Shelbyville. (Union dead were stored at warehouses until undertaker could bury them).
244. August 23, 1863 (The Papers of Andrew Johnson, Vol. 6, p. 340)
Gov A Johnson,
Nine days [14th] since I was caught by a band of Robbers, 11 miles beyond Fayetteville and my money saddle & hat were taken from me[.] a few days after the Citizens geathrin [sic] their squirrel guns and went in persuit [sic] of the Robbers Captured the horse of the Chief and one of his men - last accounts have the same Citzens are in persuit of some horse thieves - if the Citizens should Come a cross [sic] a federal force I fear they will be takin [sic] for bushwhackers[.] I have advised them to adopt some badge and let it be known to the Union Armey [sic] and Citizens[.] The Citizens are becoming aroused and feel a determination to put down bushwhackers & thieves if some plan Can be adopted[.] Cant [sic] you advise some plan and put it in Opperation [sic] [.]
The Citizens with a little help can do the work more affectually [sic] than the armey [sic] [.] if you do not recollect me enquire of Thos. A. Kerchival Esq. at the Provost Office in the Capital[.]
I am anxious to hear from you on this subject and will do all I can to advance the object named[.] hopeing [sic] to hear from you soon I Remain
Yours Truly,
R. P. Shapard
Note: For Shapard, Shelbyville wholesale grocer with two sons in the Confederate forces, see Johnson Papers V, pg 511n. Late in 1863 he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, returning sometime after April, 1864, to continue in business until his death in 1871. Louisville Journal, December 30, 1863-April 20, 1864, passim.
Note: Thomas A. Kercheval (1837-1915), Maury County born lawyer and subsequently a Radical Republican who served in the Nashville provost marshal’s office (1862-1864), was later state representative (1865-67, 1869-71) and senator (1885-87), as well a Nashville mayor (1872-73, 1875-83, 1886-87). McBride and Robinson, Biographical Directory, II, 493-94.
245. December 30, 1863 (Louisville Journal)
R.P. Shapard
Wholesale Grocer
Late of Shelbyville, Tennessee
637 Main Street at, near Seventh, Louisville, Kentucky
If you wish to purchase groceries call and see him.
Note: The above ad appeared in the Louisville Journal from December 30, 1863 until April 20, 1864
Note: In the December 31, 1863 issue of the Louisville Daily Democrat: “Wholesale Grocers – We direct the attention of dealers and others to the card of R.P. Shapard in this mornings issue. He has just opened an establishment on Main Street near Seventh.
246. 1863-1865 (Southern Claims Commission Approved Claims, 1871-1880; Claim 17071 for Calvin G. Mitchell)
Note: C.G. Mitchell sent in this information in 1873, to get reimbursed for property loss which occurred as a result of an improper seizure of flour by the Union Army during the civil war. In order to get approved he had to testify and prove that he was loyal to the US Government for the duration of the war. He had to prove the same for his business partner R.P. Shapard who was deceased at the time the claim was filed. The claim was approved.
Calvin G. Mitchell stated on October 22, 1873;
From the 1st of April 1861, up to March 1863, I resided in Shelbyville Tennessee. In March 1863, I left there and went to Louisville Kentucky where I resided up to June 1, 1865. I rented my dwelling house in the town of Shelbyville. My occupation during the time I resided in Shelbyville was a commission merchant. I changed my residence, as above stated, from Shelbyville to Louisville, Kentucky. Our business was the same in Louisville as it had been in Shelbyville, Tennessee. [He makes numerous claims that he neither aided nor served with the Confederacy in any capacity]. I left Shelbyville for safety and did not return to Shelbyville until after the war was ended. I was engaged in the grocery and commission business in Louisville, while absent, and I came to Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the later part of the year 1864. I was arrested in Shelbyville, Tennessee by the Confederate authorities in the winter of the year 1862. I was kept under arrest 2 days. I do not know why I was released. I never took any oaths to be, or for the sake of being released, to the Confederate Government. I was never arrested by the authorities of the United States Government. In the year 1862, I do not recollect the month (but have it on my books) the Confederate authorities took from the firm, making this claim, about 600 barrels of flour and used by the confederate army and received about $3000 on the same. We valued the flour at $10 a barrel which was the regular market price at that time and which we could sell readily at that price at the time.
I was threatened by both citizens and soldiers (Confederate). I do not now recollect any particular threat. It was general. So much that I left the place. I was never called on to aid the Union army. I have fed the soldiers. I had fed the soldiers when called on. I had a brother in the Confederate Army (45th Infantry, Tennessee, CSA). He lived in Rutherford County. His name was Addison Mitchell, he is now dead. I also had five nephews in the Confederate Army. William and Samuel Mitchell, James McMurry, John and Robert Mitchell. Samuel and William reside in Rutherford County, James McMurry is now dead. John and Robert Mitchell reside in Memphis Tennessee. I never contributed or furnished them with any money or clothing or military equipment nor aided or supported them while in rebel service. I never held any office in the army or navy of the United States nor educated at a military academy. While the Confederate Army occupied Shelbyville, Tennessee, I received a pass from them to pass in and out of their lines in order to attend to my business. They never required me to take an oath [of allegiance to t he Confederate Government]. At the beginning of the rebellion I sympathized with the Union cause. I voted against ratifying the ordinance of secession.
My business partner at the time of the property claim was R. P. Shapard. He died September 1871 at Shelbyville Tennessee and left me to settle the business of the firm. He resided in Shelbyville Tennessee a part of the time and in Louisville Kentucky a part of the time. We left Shelbyville Tennessee together and I returned about 6 weeks previous to him we left in the month of March in the year 1863. Previous to his leaving Shelbyville we were in partnership in the commission business and carried on the same business while absent in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. He never passed beyond the military or navel lines. He left Shelbyville, Tennessee in the month of March 1863 and went to Louisville, Kentucky along with me. We went into the grocery and commission business in that city. That I think was the only time Mr. Shapard left Tennessee during the war. I do not think he was ever arrested by the Confederate Government or by any officer acting for the state of rebellion. I was in business all the time with him and was with him every day. I would have known if he had been. He was never arrested either by the United States Government. He was threatened with damage to his person on account of his Union sentiments. It was a general threat made to both him and myself made by the citizens and soldiers there at Shelbyville that we had better leave there and go further north. We left for safety. He never contributed anything in aid of the United States Government or in aid of the Union army or cause. Only in the way of feeding the soldiers. None of his property was ever taken by the Confederate Authorities, except that which was taken [and paid for from their firm, Shapard & Mitchell]
He had one son in the Confederate army. His name was Evander. He lives in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee. I suppose he furnished him with clothing when he left to go into the Army. It was against Mr. Shapard’s consent that his son went into the Confederate Army. He did nothing towards aiding or supplying him while in the rebel service. Only when he came home I suppose he would feed him.
He never took any amnesty oath. He took such oaths as were required of all citizens by the United States military authorities. He never was pardoned by the president, never connected with the Civil Service of the Confederate States, never held office or place of trust, honor or profit under Confederate States. He never held any employment in the Confederate Government, was never conscripted into rebel service, never an officer or soldier or in the state militia while subject to the Confederacy. He was never in the Home Guard or any vigilance Committee of safety while subject to the Confederacy. He never furnished a substitute for the rebel army. He was never employed by the Quartermasters Department of the Confederate service or Commissary Department, etc.. He was never employed on any Rail Road in the service of the Confederacy, nor engaged in blockades or running illicit traffic between lines. He never owned any Confederate bonds or contributed to support the cause and the so called Confederate States during the war. He held no office in the army of the United States, nor was he educated at a military academy.
He did receive a pass from some one of the Confederate officers stationed at Shelbyville in the early part of the war, to pass out and in the lines about Shelbyville on business. I cannot give the name of the officer who gave him the pass. The pass was given for a few days. I do not remember the precise time. It was for the purpose of allowing him to attend to his business. [He did not sign or swear an allegiance to the Confederate Government] as it was not required of us because we had friends in the Confederate Army there who procured the papers for us. Had we been strangers it would have been probably required of us. At the beginning of the rebellion he sympathized with the Union cause. He felt the same that it - the rebellion – was a __ which act – he thought – was an affront to build up an aristocracy in the south and to build up the citizens of the Democratic Party in the south. He would say that the [cause] was bound to prove a failure and that he forbid it would. He voted on the side of the Union. He voted against the ordinance of secession. He was a straight out, out spoken Union man as uncompromising in his Unionism as any man you ever knew.
In the spring of 1862, to the best of my recollection in the month of May of said year (May 28, 1862), we shipped to Messrs. Trotman and Weaver of Huntsville, Alabama, commission merchants, 200 barrels of flour to be sold on our account, and to be accounted to for us. Out of that amount they had sold 75 barrels of said flour, the balance was taken by Capt. Paul, Chief Commissary, by orders of General O.M. Mitchell for the use and used by the United States Army. We never received receipt or vouchers for said flour. They accounted to us for the 75 barrels sold at $14 per barrel less their commission. We claim 135 barrels of flour at $14 per barrel, totaling $1750 in loss. Capt. Paul had a letter and note of seizure of said flour, yet would not release the voucher unless paid $136. After the war, Capt. Paul’s papers were held by Senator Fowler, and when inquired about the voucher, stated that he would not release it to Mr. C.G. Mitchell unless paid $150. Mr. Mitchell refused and brought about this claim.
I am a native of this state. My former partner Col. Shapard was also a native of this state. Neither of us ever took the benefit of the bankrupt law.
C.G. Mitchell
Shapard was a noisy talking Union man. Mitchell was more quite – but I believe they both were Union men during the entire war.
Edward L. Jordan, Oct 23, 1873
247. February 1, 1864 (U.S. Tax Assessment Lists 1862-1918)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a wholesale dealer in Kentucky collection district 3 with less 100,000 from December 1863 and was taxed $20.83.
248. March 1864 (Jennings Phillips Collection of Early Bedford County. Tennessee State Library & Archives)
G. Phillips of Shelbyville, Tennessee, made a purchase in March of 1864 from R.P. Shapard & Co. located in Louisville, Kentucky.
249. March 1, 1864 (U.S. Tax Assessment Lists 1862-1918)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a wholesale dealer in Kentucky collection district 3. He had 9,035 lbs of cotton of which he was taxed $45.18
250. April 2, 1864 (Bedford County Deeds)
Robert P. Shapard sold to Mrs. Jane P. Black for the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars a tract of land in Bedford County, Tennessee, district no. 7 and in the cooperate limits of the town of Shelbyville and known as Lot no. 97: Beginning at a stake in the north edge of Lain Street, it being the south east corner of said lot, running thence north to a stake in the south edge of an alley to a stake in the north east corner of lot No. 104, to a stake in the north edge of Lain Street, thence east with said street to the beginning…
(Signed) R.P. Shapard, Louisville Ky., April 2, 1864
Registered: April 16, 1866
Note: This was the land purchased by R.P. Shapard on September 24, 1856 from Samuel Hayes.
251. April 24, 1864 (Bedford County Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, page 38)
This day the Grand Jury brought into court the following presentments, to wit: …One presentment against Robert Shapard for gamming.
252. August 11, 1864 (Bedford County Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, page 78)
Hansford Bramble vs. Shepherd & Mitchell – Coming the parties by their attorneys__ and this cause was concluded by consent, upon each party paying one-half of the team [of horses]…
253. August 25, 1864 (U.S. Tax Assessment Lists 1862-1918)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a wholesale dealer in Kentucky collection district 3. He was assessed in taxes $151.67
254. October 31, 1864 (The Louisville Daily Journal)
We have received the following note from Mr. Shapard, which we cheerfully make room for. We regret that the paragraph referred to appeared in the morning issue of Sunday:
To the Editors of the Louisville Journal,
There is not a word of truth in the editorial in this mornings journal, in regard to Robert and David Shapards* robbing John McCarthy, and he (McCarthy) knows it. The facts are that David had retired to bed. Robert had stepped out of the back door before retiring to bed – heard a considerable noise in my Negro-house – went in and found a white man who threatened to shot him. Robert knocked him down with a biscuit-roller. I suppose this was John McCarthy. David hearing the noise ran out to where he was. This was in my Negro-house on 8th street, between Walnut and Chestnut, and not on Chestnut.
I cannot say what John McCarthy was doing there, perhaps he was hunting substitutes** or trying to make some. I can be found at No. 637 Main Street.
R.P. Shapard, Louisville, October 30, 1864
*NOTE: Robert is ‘Robert Addison Shapard’ and David is ‘David Green Shapard; both sons of R.P. Shapard.
**NOTE: During the Civil War, if you were drafted and had enough money you could procure a “substitute” to fight in your place. John McCarthy’s occupation was as a Substitute Broker. His ad in the Louisville Journal read, “Substitutes Wanted – I am paying the highest prices for substitutes and will supply them on reasonable terms. Lookout for the next draft and secure a substitute from the subscriber for three years. John NcCarthy, Substitute Broker, No. 1 Court Place.
255. November 1, 1864 (The Louisville Daily Journal)
Police Proceedings Monday October 31:
Commonwealth by John McCarthy, a bench warrant, against Robert and David Sheperd, $100 to answer indictment, on their own bond.
256. November 29, 1864 (The Louisville Journal)
Reward – If the gentleman who was kind enough to rescue me on the evening of the 22nd of last month in the neighborhood of Broadway from the hands of Robert and David Shapard, who had violently assaulted and robbed me, will call my office, I will handsomely reward him, besides tendering him my eternal gratitude. Now that the Grand Jury has indicted these two young rebels, R.P. Shapard, of No. 637 Main Street, will have an opportunity to prove the truth of his false and slanderous letter in the Journal of the 30th of last month.
John McCarthy, No. 1 Court Place
257. December 19, 1864 (The Louisville Daily Journal)
To Wholesale Dry Goods Houses or Grocers.
An energetic business man of twenty years’ experience desires a situation in some firstclass house with a view to permanency. Can compound a large trade as soon as his section is open. Having the control of one of the best business stands south of Nashville, would form a copartnership or act as agent in a good house having a trade permit. Address “Alabama,” care of R.P. Shapherd & Co., 637 Main Street
258. 1865 (Louisville Kentucky City Directory)
There is no listing for any Shapard in Louisville in 1864. The first listing is in 1865: Robert A. [Addison] Shapard is listed as a clerk for Gardner and Co. and beds at Planter’s Hotel [at 8th and Main]. Henry C. Shapard is listed as a salesman for Edwin Morris and Co. and beds at 4th SW corner and Jefferson. Isaac L Shapard is listed as a salesman for Chamberlin and Co.
259. August 26, 1865 (The American Union – Shelbyville newspaper)
New Family Grocery! At the Old Stand of Shapard & Mitchell, Depot Street. NASH & FOWLER, Would call the attention of the people of Shelbyville and Bedford county to their stock of FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES, Fine Tobacco, Cigars, Confectionaries, &c., &c., All of which will be sold cheap as the same articles can be bought in this market. We also keep on hand a fine assortment of liquors. (Placed August 5, 1865)
260. September 7, 1865 (Bedford County Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, page 575)
Hansford Bramble vs. R.P. Shapherd & C.G. Mitchell – Came the parties by their attorneys and the plaintiff ___ this suit. ___came the defendants and ___the cost of this cause and applied a judgment for the same. It is therefore considered by the court that the plaintiff __ of the defendants the cost aforesaid, for what ___open, &c.
261. September 15, 1865 (Bedford County Deeds)
John T. Stephens deeds to R.P. Shapard for the sum of one thousand dollars a certain house and lot in the town of Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee: Beginning at the South East corner of Silas W. Clays lot on the west side of Martin Street, running thence west with said Clays south boundary line to the south west corner of said Clays lot in the north edge of a new street opened by Thomas Lipscomb, thence south one hundred and four feet and five inches with the east side of said street to a stake, thence east to a stake in the west side of Martin Street to the beginning. The same house and lot I purchased from William Brown in the year 1857…
(Signed) John T. Stephens, September 15, 1865
Registered September 19, 1865
Note: This is the same house and lot that R.P. Shapard sold to his son Evander Shapard on March 15, 1867
262. 1866 (Louisville Kentucky City Directory)
Robert A. [Addison] Shapard is listed as a clerk for Gardner and Co. and boards at 265 Walnut between 7th and 8th. Isaac L Shapard is listed as a salesman for Low and Whitey and boards at the same residence as Robert Addison Shapard listed above. There is a new listing not found in the 1865 nor 1867 directory for Robert Sheppard as a grocer whose residence is at 290 Walnut between 7th and 8th …could this be R.P. Shapard living near his son R.A. Shapard? Note: there are no Shapards listed in the city directory for 1867.
263. January 3, 1866 (Shapard A Family History, pg 186)
Robert’s son, Robert Addison Shapard, married Imogene Hill in Nashville, Tennessee.
264. February 16, 1866 (Daily Union and American (Nashville Tennessee)
The People Speak Out.
The meetings in the various counties for the appointment of delegates to the Convention in this city on the 22d, have been so general that we are unable to give their proceedings at length in our paper. They have usually been held by that class of our fellow-citizens who were known as “Union men” during the war. Their united voice is for harmony and peace among our people, and an earnest support of the restoration policy of the President, Such out-speaking of the masses will confound the counsels of the unpatriotic cabals, here and there, who, for the dishonorable ends of sordid self-interests would keep the country harassed with internecine strife.
Bedford County.
Probably the most exclusively "loyal" meeting that has been held, assembled at Shelbyville on Saturday
last, presided over by our present Attorney General and Reporter, Hon. Thos. H. Caldwell, Judge Henry Cooper, Joseph II. Thompson, Esq., Colonel Robert Galbraith, Captain E. Frierson, L. P. Fields, R. P. Shapard, Thomas W. Buchanan, and R. H. Lewis were the committee on resolutions. The preamble adopted declares that "unjust and erroneous statements have gone abroad in regard to public sentiment in Tennessee, and especially erroneous to the wishes of a majority of the loyal people therein." Furthermore, " that neither the Chief Executive of the United States, the Congress, nor any agent of the Government whatever, have, either singly or combined, any legal power to declare a State out of the Union, and thereby assume to govern such State as a Territory or conquered province belonging to the General Government." And that "although not certain as to whether the Congress of the United States had the Constitutional power to impose any Congressional 'test oath,' we were nevertheless careful to see that no member was elected to that body from our State, who could not conscientiously take any oath which had been prescribed, that looked to the loyalty of the members asking admission." That they can see no reason for the delay in the admission of our delegates, "unless it is attributable to what we conceive to be unjust and erroneous statements having been sent to Washington and elsewhere ; and which, in our opinion, are exercising an unjust and improper influence upon the minds of the loyal people of the North." In view of which they
resolve :
That we believe that the entire people of Tennessee, including those hitherto considered as disloyal, are now, as a mass, determined to maintain quiet and good order, and in all things faithfully to obey the laws of the United States. That the enactment by the Congress of the United State.", of any law imposing upon the loyal people of Tennessee any conditions, rest notions or restraints which do not, and which are not intended to apply with equal force to the loyal people of every State of the Union, would be unjust to us, and in our opinion, unconstitutional. That we were in no wise responsible for the rebellion, and that while we utterly repudiated the doctrine of "State Rights'' as adhered to by Jefferson Davis and other leading spirits of the South, we nevertheless, insist that each State has certain rights under the Convolution; and that these rights are equal one State with another. Entertaining these views, we do most heartily approve of, and endorse, the principle enunciated by Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, to the effect that the hitherto insurrectionary' States of the Union are not to be held as conquered provinces or as colonial dependencies of the general Government, but that they, upon their own application, will be allowed to return to their full, true and legitimate relations to the Union, upon terms of equal rights with all other States.
In conclusion, they instruct their delegates to the Convention to assemble in this city," to insist upon the adoption of the general principles enunciated in the foregoing preamble and resolutions."
265. September 22, 1866 (Weekly American Union – Shelbyville, Tennessee newspaper)
(Advertisement) “Bob Shapard, late of Shelbyville, with Gardner and Co., Wholesale Grocers, No. 525 Main Street, before 5th and 6th, south side, Louisville, Kentucky
(Advertisement) “HERE I AM, East side of the Public Square, Shelbyville Tennessee, Next door South of Peacock’s, (yellow windows). Cheap rent help to make Cheap Goods. My present Stock consists of a small lot of Staple Dry Goods, A large assortment of Winter Boots, Shoes & Hats, Hardware, Castings, Tinware, Cook Stoves, and a general assortment of Family Groceries. I do not know what my stock will be in a month from this time. As I am after the Greenbacks, and try to keep every article of merchandise that will bring them, if you are after good cheap goods hunt up OLD MAN SHAPARD. It will pay you for your trouble, no mistake. Try it. Come along to Shapard’s Variety Store, East side of the Public Square, at the Yellow Windows. (Placed January 6, 1866).
266. October 19, 1866 (The Republican – Shelbyville, Tennessee newspaper)
AT THE YELLOW WINDOWS, East side Public Square, Shelbyville, Tennessee; You can find in store a good stock of staple dry goods, boots, shoes and hats; Hard ware, tin ware, cooking stoves, castings, nails, groceries, &c. My intention is to buy and keep every article of merchandise in demand, with a determination to sell at the very LOWEST MARKET PRICE. Call, see and be convinced, that I am in earnest, and will do what I say. Knowing “Greenbacks” are very scarce, I will give full value for every one I can get. R.P. Shapard. (Placed February 2, 1866)
267. March 15, 1867(Bedford County Deeds)
R.P. Shapard deeds to his son Evander Shapard for the sum of one thousand dollars a certain house and lot in the town of Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee: Beginning at the south east corner of Silas W. Clays lot on the west side of Martin Street running thence west with said Clays south boundary line to the south west corner of said Clays lot in the north edge of a new street opened by Thomas Lipscomb thence south one hundred and four feet and five inches with the east side of said street to a stake, thence east to a stake in the west edge of Martin Street, thence north one hundred and four feet and five inches, with the west edge of Martin Street to the beginning. This being the same house and lot I purchased of John T. Stephens in the year 1865…
(signed) R.P. Shapard March 15, 1867
Witness: M. Cannon, D.G. Shapard
Registered: March 16, 1867
268. March 23, 1867 (Republican Banner)
Hotel Arrivals – Nashville
R.P. Shapard from Shelbyville arrived at the Commercial Hotel in Nashville. Also listed were Z. Gladstone and W.B. Coldwell, also from Shelbyville.
269. May 6, 1867 (Bedford County Deeds)
J.C. Shapard Trust Deed to R.P. Shapard
For the sum of one dollar and other considerations hereby after, I have bargained and sold and hereby see transfer and convey unto R.P. Shapard: Beginning at a stake in the center of the Lynchburg ___ it being the south-east corner of the Farer lot, moving south with the ___ 11 poles to the stone then south 87 degrees.
R.P. Shapard by note due him on the 6th day of May 1867, the sum of $166.48, to satisfy said debt by me 25 December 1862, then the obligation be void.
Note: J.C. Shapard may have been Joseph Campbell Shapard who was the eldest son of James Paine Shapard. He was born in 1823 in Rutherford County and married Mary Clark in 1846 in Bedford County. He was a doctor in Winchester Tennessee and died in 1892. It appears that he was indebted to R.P. Shapard in the amount of $166 since 1862 and traded land to satisfy the debt. The land was in Lynchburg, Tennessee which was in Bedford County, until Moore County was formed in 1871.
270. June 23, 1867 (Minute book of the First Presbyterian Church in Shelbyville, Bedford County Tennessee).
Rev. Robert R. Moore was minister and records that Robert P. Shapard and Mrs. Shapard were admitted to the church on June 23, 1867 through a Profession of Faith. In addition, on November 10, 1866 Thomas C. Whiteside, Jr. became an addition to the church through a Profession of Faith. He became Sallie Shapard’s husband in 1871.
Note: On July 3, 1868, it was noted that, Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Shapard were dismissed at their own request to connect with the 2nd Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee. On November 18, 1868, Mr. C.G. Mitchell and his wife Mary L. Mitchell were dismissed at their own request to unite with the Presbyterian Church Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
271. July 6, 1866 (Daily Union and American)
Ad for Gardner & Co. Wholesale Grocers. 525 Main Street, Louisville Kentucky
R.A. Shapard, late of Shelbyville, Tennessee, is with this firm and will take pleasure in waiting on his old friends.
272. July 12, 1867 (Bedford County Wills and Vital Records from Newspapers, book from OHS)
William Brown. Probate record. “Daughter Manerva White of Texas, gets a house and lot in Shelbyville on Murfreesboro Pike, adjourning [the lot of] Robert Shapard. Probated March 1880.
273. July 3, 1868 (Minute book of the First Presbyterian Church in Shelbyville, Bedford County Tennessee)
It was noted that “Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Shapard were dismissed at their own request to connect with the 2nd Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee*.
*Note: Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Shapard may have moved to Memphis, Tennessee from 1868-1870, perhaps to be with their son Robert Addison Shapard and his family who lived there.
274. August 28, 1868 (American Union, Shelbyville, Tennessee newspaper)
Look Here. Mathews Corner. Having purchased of R.P. Shapard his stock of merchandise consisting of Staple Dr Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Mule and Horse Collars, Hardware, Cutlery, Chains, Cook Stoves, Assorted Iron, Castings, Groceries, &c., &c., and intending to continue business in Mathews Corner, West side Square. I solicit the patroniage of his former customers and ask others to give me a call before purchasing elsewhere; as I intend selling only the best goods, and those as cheap as can be afforded. R.P. Shapard will continue to conduct the business, and will be found as heretofore, ready and willing to wait upon those wishing to purchase. E Shapard.
Note: Evander Shapard purchased the business from his father due to his move to Memphis. Mathews Corner is located on the west side of the Square at #69 on the 1878 Shelbyville map.
275. June 15, 1869 (Shapard A Family History, pg 185)
Robert’s son, Edwin Ruthven Shapard, married Jennie Neely Hall in Davidson Co. Tennessee
276. June 17, 1869 (Shapard A Family History, pg 186)
Robert’s son, Evander Shapard, married Emma Lipscomb in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
277. January 19, 1870 (Shapard A Family History, pg 164)
Robert’s brother, William Booker Shapard, died in Nashville, Tennessee.
278. August 9, 1870 (Census Bedford Co., TN)
R.P. Shapard is listed as a merchant and farmer, worth $2,000 in real estate and $4,000 in personal estate, age 65, born in North Carolina and living in District 7 of Bedford County, Tennessee. His household consists of: Parthenia Shapard age 61 female born in North Carolina and keeping house; David Green Shapard age 24 born in Tennessee and is working as a clerk; Sallie Shapard age 21 born in Tennessee; Bell Little black female age 25 born in Tennessee and is working as a domestic servant who could not read or write; Henry Little black male age 4 born in Tennessee; Edwin R. Shapard age 31 born in Tennessee and is working as a M.E. Minister of Gospel possessing $200 in personal estate; Jennie Shapard age 19 born in Tennessee and is ‘boarding’ at the residence.
279. July 26, 1871 (Shapard A Family History, pg 189)
Robert’s daughter, Sarah, married Thomas C. Whiteside, Jr. in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
280. July 27, 1871 (Republican Banner)
Two Made One
The kindly offices of Rev. T.H. Hinson were engaged, and at 9 o’clock this morning T.C. Whiteside, Jr., of the firm Ely & Whiteside, of your city, and Miss Sallie Shaphard, of Shelbyville were united in wedlock, at the residence of the bride’s father. Immediately after the ceremony they left for the Rock City, there to dwell – he brave and true, she beautiful and good – “two lutes in one key,” Two minds linked in love, one cannot be delighted, but the other rejoiceth. Bliss to them, is the wish wafted from this entire community, where both are known and loved.
281. September 22, 1871 (Republican Banner)
Died in Shelbyville – R.T. Shappard, an old and estimable merchant of Shelbyville, died on Tuesday last. He was a brother of the late W.B. Shappard of this city (Nashville).
(Nashville Union and American, September 22, 1871)
Lamented Death in Shelbyville
R.P. Shapard, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Shelbyville, was buried at that place Tuesday last. He was a brother of the late W.B. Shapard of this city (Nashville), had attained a ripe old age, in a long and upright business career, dying in the midst of the tears of his family and mourned by the community at large. The people of Shelbyville testified their respect and esteem by suspending business and attending his funeral in a body.
282. September 26, 1871 (The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu)
Tennessee News Items: R.P. Shapard, of Shelbyville is dead.
283. September 28, 1871 (Fayetteville Observer)
Mr. Robert P Shapard died in Shelbyville on Monday 18th inst., of erysipelas*, after only two days illness. Age 66 years, 8 months, 9 days. He lived in Fayetteville for many years preceding 1855 and was largely instrumental in causing the erection of the Methodist church in this place.
284. September 28, 1871 (The Pulaski Citizen)
Mr. Rob’t T. Shapard, an old and estimable merchant of Shelbyville, Tenn., and brother of our fellow-citizen, Mr. Booker Shapard, died on Tuesday, 19th inst. Mr. Shapard was a life-long member of the Methodist Church – a Christian gentleman, whose example in life is worthy of imitation.
285. October 14, 1871 (Nashville Christian Advocate)
Robert P. Shapard, born Caswell County, North Carolina on January 9, 1805 died in Shelbyville Tennessee on September 18, 1871. He left several children. A Tribute of respect for him by the Sabbath school group will be held at Shelbyville, Tennessee on October 1, 1871*
Note: Erysipelas is a sudden bacterial infection of the skin. It is common in the young and elderly or people with immune deficiency. Symptoms are a high fever, shaking , chills, fatigue, headache, vomiting all within 48 hours of infection. The skin gets red and swollen in patches, resulting in painful rashes.
286. October 16, 1871 (Bedford County Tennessee Will Book and Inventory)
An inventory of the personal estate of R.P Shapard deceased. Claim good. Anoint in hands of E. Shapard (Evander) trustee after satisfaction of trust about two Tennessee bonds in hands of CG Mitchell surviving partner - $2,000. One half interest in 15,00 of incurrent bank bills. One half interest in the notes and accounts and judgments favor of Shapard and Mitchell and in the hands of CG Mitchell surviving partner - $1,000.
Claims doubtful. One note on James Calhoun dated June 19, 1860 for $100. The above is a true and perfect inventory of all the good and chattel, rights and credits of the said R.P Shapard deceased which have come to our hands, possession or knowledge or the hands of any other person for us to the best of our knowledge and belief this 16 day of October, 1871
(Signed) E.R. Shapard and E. Shapard
Note: money values listed off to the left of this entry indicated “$2000, $1400, $1000, $100.
287. December 14, 1871 (Shapard A Family History, pg 188)
Robert’s son David Green Shapard, married Mattie Allen in Bedford County Tennessee. David’s brother, Rev. William Shapard performed the ceremony.
December 20, 1871 (Nashville Union and American)
Hymeneal
Last Thursday, at 4 o’clock, P.M., our friend D.G. Shapard of this place, was united in holy wedlock to Miss Mattie Allen, daughter of Maj. William Allen, one of Bedford’s best men. Dave is a boy of solid worth, and has chosen for his wife one well worthy to walk by his side, and be the love-light of his heart and home. Long may they live and love each other.
288. 1872 (Nashville Christian Advocate, article by Rev. P.A. Sowell)
The main religious resources in Shelbyville were Brother [R.P.] Shapard, Brother Brown Knott and Brother M.B. Moorman. Rev. Sowell reports that when he was assigned to Shelbyville in 1872, the Methodist resources in that place had been greatly curtailed due to the deaths of Brother Shapard and Brother Knott, and Brother Moorman had moved to Nashville.
289. May 9, 1872 (Fayetteville Observer)
In Shelbyville, Saturday 27th ult. after a long illness, Mrs. Parthenia Shapard, relict of R.P. Shapard, deceased, formally of this place, age 63 years. She was an excellent lady, of gentle manners and “having kept the faith” was ready to go.
290. June 1, 1872 (Nashville Christian Advocate June 1, 1872)
Parthenia Shapard was born in Person County, North Carolina on January 12, 1809. She is the daughter of William and Elizabeth Mitchell. She died in Shelbyville, Tennessee on April 27, 1872. She married Robert P. Shapard on November 12, 1829, who died 7 months before she died. Her family had moved to Rutherford County, Tennessee when she was young. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church in 1831.
291. June 3, 1872 (Bedford County Tennessee Will Book and Inventory)
Parthenia Shapard deceased inventory
Inventory of the personal property of Parthenia Shapard deceased. To account in my hands a trustee appointed by the Chancery Court with interest. To a___(?) of the personal property belonging to the estate of R.P. Shapard deceased above. The above is a true and perfect inventory on the goods and chattels right and credits of the said Parthenia Shapard deceased which have come to my hands possession or knowledge or the hands of any other person for me by the best of my knowledge and belief. This 3 day of June, 1872.
E. Shapard (Evander), Administrator.
Note: money values off to the left of this entry indicate “$4110 + $1000 = $5110
292. June 24, 1872 (Bedford County Will Book with Inventories)
The account of the sales made of the personal property of the estate of R.P. Shapard Deceased at his late residence in Bedford County after having advertised according to law.
5 split-bottom chairs, rocking chair, stove, 1 set split-bottom chairs, rocking chair, dish pan, scoops and grater, half-gallon jar, sundries, coffee pot, 12 fruit cans, 3 buckets and cup, crock, 3 jars, bedstead, 1 set china plates, 3 china plates, 2 dishes, clothes line, hand saw, table, wash stand, 3 spring-bottom chairs, shelves, 2 lounges, churn, dipper and bucket, coffee mill, hand saw, 2 pair And irons, 1 pair window shade, 2 pair shovel and tongs, bed stead 2 lounge mattresses, 1 lounge mattress, 4 pillows, table, 2 bedsteads, Bereau, carpet, cook stove, 1 pair window shades, ward robe, 7 dining room chairs, soup tureau (?), 1 set plates, 10 china plates, 10 soup plates, 4 cake plates, 3 pickle dishes, butter dish, 1 set glasses, 5 glasses, 9 custard cups, 3 wine glasses, 1 set goblets, 2 preserve dishes, 2 one-gallon jars, iron, pitcher, 3 pitchers and bowls, 11 dishes, china rum pot, cream pitcher, waiter and 3 spoons, knives and forks, carver, 3 cake moulds, 2 pans and waiter, 2 jars, 3 And irons, kettle, sausage mill, saw and hatchet, hall lamp, 44 yards oil cloth, 1 pair shovel and tongs, feathers in ticks, table, butter crock, egg whip, 3 lamps, hat rack, rug carpet, carpet, crow bar, plow, ladder, sprinkler, 1 set split-bottom chairs, molasses stand, iron stove, pitcher, 2 dishes, 1 set cups and saucers, coffee canister, 1 set knives and forks, demijohn, 2 stone jars, 1 pair And irons, dining table, mattress, 4 pillows, 2 bolsters, small table, lantern, rug, table, axe, hammer, wedge, plow and plow gear, 3 brooms, rake, hoe, candles, wash kettle, feathers, chistle, hoe, biscuit roller, 1 pair shades, 2 garden forks, 8 plates, 5 glasses demijohn, carpet, tea pot and strainer, 24 fruit cans, 3 buckets and dipper, wash basin, 1 pair And irons, barrel, plow, candles, 1 pair And irons, mattress, wash stand, safe, large mattress, 1 set chairs, calf. (Note: the total sum of the sale was $4116.29)
The foregoing is a full and perfect account of the sales of all the property of the estate of R.P. Shapard deceased directed to be sold. Notes with good security due twelve months after date were taken from the purchasers for all sums over ten dollars and cash received for all sums of ten dollars and less.
E. Shapard (Evander)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this June 24, 1872 – R. L. Singleton.
293. January 2, 1873 (The Pulaski Citizen)
A tribute to Mr. B. Shapard
The subject of this brief tribute, Mr. Booker Shapard, was born in Caswell County, N.C., February 28, 1803. His father moved to Tennessee in 1812, and in 1813 deceased was orphaned by the death of his mother. Mr. Shapard first settled in Williamson County for two years, moved thence to Wilson, thence to Smith, and thence to Rutherford. In 1817 deceased was bound out to the saddler’s trade, in 1820 professed religion and joined the first Methodist church ever built in Murfreesboro – moved to Shelbyville from old Jefferson in 1830, and was living there at the time of the great tornado which nearly destroyed the town, and in 1833, when cholera depopulated that fated town, lost his wife. In 1835, having remarried, he moved to Mulberry, in Lincoln County, and built the first house in the village now known by that name. The house has stood the ravages of time and decay until this day. In 1840 deceased moved to Pulaski and engaged in merchandizing, until 1861, when his store was robbed by Federal soldiery and he with others exiled by a ruthless order from the Post Commandant as a representative citizen. In 1865 the restoration of peace found him broken in fortune, decrepid with age, feeble in health, and crushed in everything save his trust in God. Henceforth he indulged few worldly aspirations, but lived close to the foot of the cross of Christ, and sought nothing higher than the comforts of religion and the peace, prosperity and happiness of his family, church, friends and country. On the 24th day of April last, after having suffered many weeks with fistula, he was forced to succumb to the hand of disease, destined never to recover. For eight months and three days he was confined to his room and bed, by the wasting and painful disease mentioned, having only ventured out a few times with supports during a brief interval of convalescence. During his entire illness, and even in the midst of his great sufferings, he continually gave thanks and praises to God for the consolations of the religion which he had so long and so faithfully professed. Conscious of approaching dissolution, he made all things ready, even the details of his funeral, the time and place of his burial, gave the writer the above facts and requested him to incorporate them into a brief notice of his death, selected the text (Phil. 1st chap., 21st verse) “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain,” for his funeral discourse, requested to be buried on Sunday if possible, asked Rev. W.H. Hughes to conduct the services, appointed his pall-bearers, and on the 28th of December, 1872, at the age of nearly 70 years, he went to sleep peacefully and without a struggle in the arms of his Savior. So intense and so long protracted had been the suffering of deceased, and so unmistakable were the evidences of his preparations for death, that his family and friends were hardly unwilling to see him released by death. He was a brother of the late W.B. Shapard of Nashville, and of the late R.P. Shapard, of Shelbyville, and was the last of his family. He was the father of Capt. John T. Shapard, deceased, and of our friends Isaac L. and Robert Shapard, of this place. He leaves an aged and disconsolate widow, who has been the companion of his joys and sorrows for many years, who nursed and ministered to him in tenderness and with unceasing assiduity to the last. To her and to his orphaned daughters we especially invoke the blessing of Heaven, and may even this great bereavement prove a blessing to all.
Note: The Pulaski Citizen, August 20, 1874 has a List of the Mayors in which it records B. Shapard as Mayor in 1853 with J.C. Rhea as Recorder.
294. November 11, 1874 (Settlements 1865-1877 of Bedford County, Tennessee, pg 529-532)
Parthena Shapard Estate Settlement November 11, 1874
State of Tennessee, Bedford County. I, R.S. Singleton clerk of the county court of said county having this day made a settlement with Evander Shapard Adminstator of Parthena Shapard.
Report as follows. Charges. I find that the administrator is chargable as sharer of inventory, Inventory Book “A” page 627, to a child’s part of the assets belonging to estate of R.P. Shapard ($1,000). To amount of trust funds in his hands ($4,110). Total charges $5,110.
Credit. I then allow the Administrator the following credits. 1st It appears that the Administrator in his inventory charged himself with $1,000 ad a child’s part of R.P. Shapard’s estate, when in fact a child’s part of said estate is $815.80, making amount over-charged and inventory and to which he is entitled in credit $184.20. By A.B. Knotts coffin afe - $100; By S.A. Cunninghams receipt - $5.00; By Evans & Shapard afe - $5.75; By R.E. Davidson for receipt 1873 - $14.02; By J.W. Cowan & Son - $5.75; By Fergun & T___ afe - $1.40. Total $314.12.
The Administrator is also entitled to the following credits. By R.S. Singleton receipt cost of appointment - $5.50; By allowance to administrator - $255.50; By clerk fee for settlement - $3.00. Total $578.12. Balance in administrators hands due heirs - $4531.88.
The administrator is also entitled to the following credits as amounts paid the heirs of said estate. Aug 21/72 by Wm Shapard receipt - $200; Dec 31/73 by Wm Shapard receipt - $100; Feby 26/74 by Wm Shapard receipt - $290.80; June 1/74 by Wm Shapard receipt - $184.20; June 29/72 by E.R. Shapard receipt - $200.50; April 28/74 by E.R. Shapard receipt - $390.30; July 23/74 by E.R. Shapard receipt - $184.20; May 31/72 by D.G. Shapard receipt - $203.00; Sept 14/72 by D.G. Shapard receipt - $50.00; Nov 7/72 by D.G. Shapard receipt - $137.80. Total $1940.80.
Amount in administrators hands due heirs forever - $4531.88. Amount paid heirs - $1940.80. Feby 19/74 by D.G. Shapard receipt - $200.00; June 1/74 by D.G. Shapard receipt - $184.20; July 6/72 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $200.50; Jany 20/73 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $100; June 1/74 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $184.20; Nov 11/74 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $290; Oct 26/74 by Immogene Shapards ___ & receipt - $775.00; Nov 11/74 by Evander Shapards ___ & receipt - $775.00. Total $4650. Amount due administrator from estate - $118.12. Respectfully submitted, R.S. Singleton, Clerk
R.P. Shapards estate settlement November 10, 1874. State of Tennessee, Bedford County. I, R.S. Singleton clerk of the county court of said county having this day made a settlement with Evander Shapard Adminstator of R.P. Shapard.
Report as follows. Charges. I first charge the Administrator to amount Trust Fund in his hands charged in inventory - $2,000; to amount of trust fund in administrators hands not charged in inventory - $1,920.52; to amount realized from the partnership of Shapard & Mitchell part of same being charged in inventory - $3,000; to amount of sale list, see inventory Bok “A” page 632 – 34 - $406.29. Total charges - $7326.81
Credits. I then allow the Administrator the following credits for which he procured profess vouches. By Thos. Lipscomb medical bill - $16.00; By Thos. Lipscomb medical bill - $30.50; By J.A. Blakemore medical bill - $75.03; By J.A. Blakemore medical bill - $15.44; By J.M. Friston receipt funeral expenses - $9.25; H. Cates walling (?) grave - $25.00. Total $171.22. By J.W. Cowan & Son funeral expenses - $4.85; By A.B. Knott & Son coffin afe - $75.00; By ___ funeral expenses $5.00; By R.F. Evans medical afe - $7.00; By Svann & Brown tombstone - $300.00; By R.C. Russ State & Co tax 1871 - $21.30; R.E. Davidson State and Co tax 1873 - $26.72; By T.B. Gril afe brich and lime - $71.75; By Gen W. Martin afe labor - $7.00; By Jas. S. Scudder fee - $50.00; By Shelbyville Savings Bank Note - $501.70;By N.B Cable afe - $3.50; By R.N. Jones afe - $6.45; By Wm. Key - $3.35; Jo D. Wilbaits ___rent - $120; By S.A. Cunninghams receipt - $1.50; By V.G. McRee afe - $1.00; By Thompson & Green - $16.68; By Wilhait - $12.75; By H.C. Dwiggins - $13.00; By J.M. Elliott & Co. 1870 - $8.25; By J.M. Elliott & Co. 1871 – 21.12; By D.G. Shapard clerk hire - $1,355.40; T.W. Buchannon & Co afe - $12.80; By Evan & Shapard - $30.70; By C.A. Warren - $9.50; By F.F. Fanville crying sale - $5.00; R.L. Singleton cost afe - $8.90; Clerks fee for settlement - $4.50; Allowance to administrator - $370; E.S. Shapard attorney fee - $6.36. Total credits - $3251.80. Balance $4075.01.
I then allow the administrator credit by amount paid heirs of the estate as follows. Dec 13/71 by Parthena Shapard receipt - $100; Dec 13/71 by E. Shapard administrator Parthenia Shapard - $715.80; Dec 30/73 by Wm. Shapard receipt - $500; June 1/74 by Wm. Shapard receipt - $315.80; April 28/74 by E.R. Shapard receipt - $500; July 23/74 by E.R. Shapard receipt - $315.80; June 7,1872 by D.G. Shapard receipt – $65.35; July 15/72 by D.G. Shapard receipt – $54.96; Mar 25/73 by D.G. Shapard receipt – $379.70; June 1/74 by D.G. Shapard receipt – $315.80; Jany 20,1873 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $500; June 1, 1874 by Sallie S. Whitesides receipt - $315.80. Total $4079.01. Amount due administrator - $4.00.
In the inventory the administrator is charged with a note on J.F. Calhoun of $100.00 __ doubtful which note was discharged in bankruptcy prior to the rendereing of the inventory and he received nothing for it and therefore it is not charged against him in this settlement. R.S. Singleton, Clerk.
295. September 21, 1875 (Court document held in personal collection of Nathan Shapard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Change in award at second meeting of arbitration
1. The Cotton Tax claim is allowed say of $303 with interest from may 1866
2. The “Y.M. Coldwell entry” is regarded by us as correct and shall remain as charged
3. The allowance for use of wagon and team are offset against the services of E.R. (Edwin Ruthven), R.A. (Robert Addison), and E. (Evander) Shapard amounting to $800 as hereinbefore provided.
The Bill of Complaint of C. G. Mitchell filed in the Chancery Court at Shelbyville against Evander Shapard and E.R. Shapard Administrators of R.P. Shapard deceased. The Hon. A.S. Marks Chancellor, humbly complaining…(torn)…orator, at present a resident of the County of Rutherford would most respectfully show to your Honor that for some years he and his brother-in-law R.P. Shapard were partners doing business in the town of Shelbyville under the firm name of Shapard and Mitchell that at the time of the death of R.P. Shapard and the firm business was unsettled, that he died in Bedford County on the _ day of _ that the defendants Evander Shapard and E.R. Shapard qualified as his administrators in the county court of Bedford County. The defendant Evander still resides in the county of Bedford while the defendant E.R. Shapard sometime since left the State of Tennessee and is at present a resident of Indian Territory. That the firm of Shapard and Mitchell did a large business and after dissolution of the firm assets were mainly controlled by R.P. Shapard…(torn)…will be found and owing him as respondent …(torn)… about the sum of $2249.64 on the cash as kept and received by R.P. Shapard on the books of the firm as kept by R.P. Shapard. Subject to the credit hereinafter set out, and also due him some additional matters hereinafter set out, as shown in this Bill the complainant and defendants are related and differing about some credits and charges agree to submit the same to arbitration, accordingly on the 21 day of September 1875 it was agreed by and between the parties, the same being reduced to writing, that the differences between them were to be referred to W.A. Ransom, William Frierson and a third man to be selected by them. It was agreed in the award that the statements of the parties oral or written might be taken, and they objected themselves to abide by and perform the award of the arbitration, it being signed by Evander Shapard and C.G. Mitchell, E.R. Shapard, as before stated, being a resident of the Indian Territory. These arbitrators declining to act A. Frierson and James M. Elliot were selected in their room and stead and they selected Mr. Dromgoole as the third man. The submission is herewith filed marked “Ex. A” and is made a part of the Bill accordingly the arbitrators met and awarded as follows. 1. That the claim of the complainants for Cotton Tax paid was postponed for further proof and was subsequently allowed in the sum of three hundred dollars. 2. The sum of $618 with interest from 1st July, 1858 was allowed Complainant. 3. The W.M. Coldwell claim was held open for further proof and was finally decided adverse to Complainant. 4. The claim of complainant for $375 the hire of boy with interest from the first day of October 1858 was allowed. 5. That the cash account should be charged to R.P. Shapard and with interest from the determination of these suits, that the accounts of the partners should bear interest from the 1 January, 1868.
The claim of the administrator for the services of the sons in the store was in part allowed and in part disallowed, and were offset by a claim of the complainant for the use of the wagon, a claim of the administrators for error of $296 was disallowed while a claim of $85.91 for error was allowed with interest from March 1856.
The Court thus sees by the written award of the arbitrators the disputed matters between the parties has been settled by arbitration leaving the true amount to be ascertained and determined by the usual reference and adjudications in partnership cases. But not withstanding this the administrators refuse to settle and accept the conclusion of this mutual arbitration and with that as a guide to enter on the settlement of the partnership. Your complainant insists that these conclusions of these disputed matters are a finality as to them, and that upon that basis a settlement should take place. There being no final settlement or amount as due found his only [remedy] is in the Chancery Court to settle the partnership. Your orator shows and asserts that the claims so adjudged by the arbitrators are correct and just and the claims found as these are correct. The amount due him is entitled to a credit of a note for _ dollars given him by Evander Shapard and transferred by Complainant to William Mitchell. Your Orator further shows your Honor that after the death of R.P. Shapard the defendants too charge of a large amount of the notes, assets, obligations, and bonds of the firm of Shapard and Mitchell and appropriated and distributed the same to the payment of the debts of R.P. Shapard alone and divided the same in distribution among the heirs, and as to these assets so appropriated the Administrators are individually responsible to the complainant.
The premises considered they pray your honor to make the parties as named in the Bill defendants thereto that process issue as to the resident and publication for the now-resident defendant and that they answer and on the hearing will you settle adjudge and determine the rights and equities of the parties enforce the award and give your orator a decree against them as administrators individually for the true amount found due and all such other and further relief as the nature of the case admits of.
296. June 23, 1887 (Shelbyville Gazette)
Col. C.G. Mitchell died in Nashville. Came to Bedford County in the 1850s. He was born in Murfreesboro. A brother-in-law of R.P. Shapard, a partner, until 1862 or 1864. He was an uncle to Messers E. Shapard and D.G. Shapard. He was twice married, both wives being daughters of Dr. Gannaway of Fairfield.
Note: Calvin Green Mitchell was born in approx. 1814 in North Carolina. He married Sarah E.W. Gannaway on January 20, 1847, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Calvin Green Mitchell married Mary O. Gannaway (Sarah’s sister) on October 2, 1855 in Rutherford Co. Tennessee. In 1860 he had two daughters; Sallie and Anna. He was a merchant He died in Nashville, Tennessee in June 18, 1887 and was buried at the Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace, Bedford County, Tennessee, alongside wife Mary Olivia (1827-1890) and three of his children, Lee Mitchell (1868-1896), Sara Elizabeth Mitchell (1856 – 1910) and Annie Mitchell Davidson (1858 – 1928). According to Tennessee Death & Burial Index, he was born about 1815 in North Crarolina was 72 years old at the time of his death on June 18, 1872. He died in Nashville, TN of uremic poisoning and was buried in Murfreesboro, TN by the undertaker, Comb & Co. He was living at 413 S. Market Street, Ward 8 in Nashville and was married. He was working as a merchant.
297. 1913 (Hale, Will T. and Merritt, Dixon L. Tennessee and Tennesseans, Vol. 6. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1913.)
EVANDER SHAPARD
Well versed in legal matters and possessing sound judgment and great intellectual powers, Evander Shapard has won distinction at the bar and a position of prominence among the successful attorneys of Shelbyville He was born November 2, 1843, in Fayetteville, Tennessee, a son of Robert Paine Shapard, coming from pioneer stock. His grandfather, James Shapard, was a native, it is supposed, of North Carolina. About 1810 he migrated with his family to Tennessee, becoming one of the earlier settlers of Wilson county, where he purchased land, and for a few years was employed in improving it. Removing from there to Rutherford county, he purchased a tract of wild land lying four miles north of Murfreesboro, and there, with slave help, was en¬gaged in agricultural pursuits until his death at a good old age. He married a Miss Paine, and they reared six sons, James, William B., Booker, Thomas, Lewis, and Robert Paine, and one daughter, Eleanor, who married a Mr. Harrison.
Robert Paine Shapard, a native of Person county, North Carolina, was but a child when taken by his parents to Wilson county, Tennessee, where he was reared amid pioneer scenes. In his early manhood, at a time when only wrought iron nails were in use, he served an apprentice¬ship at the nailmaker’s trade, which he never followed, however, to any extent. Preferring some other line of work, he embarked in mercantile pursuits, first in Murfreesboro and later in Fayetteville. There were at that early date no railways in Tennessee, and all of his merchandise, which was purchased in Philadelphia, was transported from that city across the country with wagons. Locating with his family in Shelbyville in 1855, he here carried on a substantial business as a merchant until his death in September, 1871. A man of energy and enterprise, he was an important factor in the development of the resources of his adopted state, which he saw grow from a wilderness to a well-settled and wealthy state, with railroads extending through it in every direction.
Robert Paine Shapard married Parthenia Mitchell, who was born in Tazewell county; North Carolina, a daughter of William Mitchell, a pioneer settler of Rutherford county, Tennessee. Mr. Mitchell, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army and took part in the battle of King’s Mountain, spent his last days on his farm near Murfreesboro. His daughter, Parthenia, learned to card, spin and weave when a girl, and after her marriage dressed her family in clothes woven and spun by her own hands. To Robert Paine and Parthenia (Mitchell) Shapard seven children were born, as follows: William, Avarilla, Edwin R., Robert A., Evander, David G., and Sarah. Three of the sons, William, Edwin R. and Evander, served during the Civil war in the Confederate army.
Obtaining his rudimentary education in the schools of Fayetteville and Shelbyville, Evander Shapard began when a youth to assist his father in the store. In 1861, soon after the breaking out of the war be¬tween the states, he enlisted in Company F, Forty-first Volunteer In¬fantry of Tennessee, and did brave service until the close of the conflict. During his first engagement with the enemy, at the battle of Fort Donelson, he was captured and for seven months was held as a prisoner at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. Being then exchanged, he joined his command at Vicksburg and took part in the battles at Raymond and Jack¬son, in Mississippi, and at Chickamauga, Georgia, subsequently fighting Sherman’s forces all the way from Dalton to Atlanta, and taking part in the defense of that city and in the engagement at Jonesboro. From there Mr. Shapard proceeded with his regiment, which was attached to General Hood’s army, to Tennessee, where he participated in the battles at Franklin and Nashville. After the latter engagement, he went with his command to North Carolina, fought in the battle at Bentonville, and at the close of the war was in Greensboro, that state, where he was paroled and started, homeward on foot.
Upon returning to Shelbyville Mr. Shapard began the study of law under Judge Henry Cooper, and since his admission to the bar has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in Shelbyville, where he has built up an extensive and lucrative clientage. Actively interested in municipal affairs, Mr. Shapard has held various offices of trust and responsibility, having served as alderman and city treasurer and as special judge, a position to which he has several times been appointed. He is a member of William Frierson Bivouac, Con¬federate Veterans, and both he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church.
In October, 1912, at the annual convention of the United Confederate Veterans of Tennessee, Mr. Shapard was, without solicitation on his part and when he was absent from the hail, unanimously chosen briga¬dier general for the Second Division and at the meeting of the Tennessee Division of Confederate Veterans he was elected vice-president of the state association. Recently, a vacancy occurring in the board of trustees of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home, he was by the board unanimously chosen to fill the vacancy. These evidences of the confidence of his comrades is a source of great gratification to Mr. Shapard especially since whatever character he has as a Confederate soldier was obtained by his service in the ranks.
Mr. Shapard married, June 17, 1869, Emma F. Lipscomb, who was born in Shelbyville, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Stevenson) Lipscomb Mr. and Mrs. Shapard have reared nine children, namely: Robert P., Thomas L., Rebecca S., Emma, Evanda, Juliet, Mary D., Evander and Marjorie. Robert P., the first-born, married Catherine Morris and they have one son, Robert P. Shapard, Jr. Thomas married Lula Holtzelaw and they have five children, Mary, Evander, Rebecca, Lula and Thomas. Rebecca married Sydney Garrison and has one child, Sydney. Evanda married Hugh L. Dayton and has one son, Hugh T. Dayton, Jr. Juliet, wife of Carl Douthitt, has one child, Emma Douthitt. Mary D., wife of Dr. James Ti. Morton, has one child, James T. Morton, Jr. Emma, the fourth child and second daughter, married A. M. Trawick and is deceased, leaving one child, Emma Trawick.
298. Woodruff, Charles M. Sr. The First United Methodist Church of Shelbyville, Tennessee A History Commemorating the Bicentennial of Methodism in America. 1986.
299. Notes on James Paine Shapard
The obituary of Sue R. Morgan who was the daughter of JPS and married John Morgan, states that she was born in Tennessee and came with her parents, “Dr. and Mrs. J.P. Shapard” to Chapel Hill, Texas. She resided in Washington County for 70 years.
Franklin County Tennessee USA. A biography on prominent citizens of Tennessee listed Dr. J.C. Shapard (Joseph Cambell) and stated, that he was born in 1823 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. His father, J.P. Shapard, was born in North Carolina and emigrated to Rutherford County, Tennessee when young. He was a merchant and lived in Rutherford County until near his death when he moved to Texas where he died. The mother died in 1875. Dr. Shapard was the oldest of 10 children and when a young man he came to Winchester and conducted merchandising for his father for two years. He began the study of medicine when 22 years old and soon entered practice in Franklin County. In 1862 he moved to Winchester and remained ever since. He died in 1892.
Donna’s Family Tree on rootsweb.ancestory.com states that James lived most of his life in Middleton, Tennessee and moved to Washington Co., Texas by wagon in 1846. The trip took 49 days, during which the family camped out at night and rested on the Sabbath.
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