Shep's Place Family Tree

Mr. Brumfield was a soldier in the war of the rebellion from April to November 1862: a private in Company C, in the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry. ‎[How was he released, or did he escape? By June 1863 he was married to Emily Sheets.]‎

Mr. Brumfield is a resident of Guyan township, where he is engaged as a farmer. His postoffice address was Saundersville, Gallia county, Ohio.

Isaac and Emily Sheets married in the summer of 1863 when they were both 21 years old. Six years later when the 1870 census was taken they had a family of four children: Henry five, James four, John two and Susan five months.

Molly Henry aged 64 ‎(born Ohio)‎ was "living in the family." Emily's mother Susan was a Henry; and she was living on the neighboring farm of Emily's brother Gory Sheets. Molly could be Susan's sister Mary. Marys were sometimes called Molly or Polly.

Isaac and his wife Emily both aged 37 were farming in Guyan township in the summer of 1880. They had plenty of work and lots of help on the farm.

Their children were Henry L. 16, works on farm; James M. 13, works on farm; John P. eleven, works on farm; Susan F. eight; Mary E. seven; Ann E. five; Samuel E. three and Celestia eleven months.

In the next four years Emily would have two more children, Vesta in 1881 and Charles Jarvis in 1883. Ten children altogether.

In June of 1900 Isaac was farming in Harrison Twp. He and Emily had been married for 37 years and had had ten children of whom nine were living. The son Samuel had died the year before in 1899. Only three of their children were living at home: Celesta aged 20, Vestie 18 and Charles 16 years.

Anna McKean, aged eleven, was boarding with the family.