Shep's Place Family Tree

He was born on his father's farm and spent his life there. He later owned and operated this farm, and brought up his family there. The farm is located where John's Creek flows into Indian Guyan Creek, a good and fertile location.
Mr. Sheets spent his boyhood days helping his father. At that time, the crops raised, besides food for the family, were hay, corn, and, for a money crop, cane for making sorghum molasses. the molasses was put in large barrels and shipped by riverboat to markets down river. Sorghum molasses was a necessity in most homes since it was used as a sweetening. In later years, tobacco replaced cane as a money crop.

Mr. Sheets attended Campbell School, as did all of his children. This was a one-room school, and was located two miles south of Mercerville, on what is now Ohio Route 218. The school was one and one-half miles from his home, and he walked there and back each day. The school term was much shorter then than now, which gave the boys more time for farm work.

During the Civil War, Alfonso sheet's father served as a Union soldier and saw action in the Shenandoah Valley and other places.