Shep's Place Family Tree

Company G, 195th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Enlisted February 14, 1865; Discharged December 18, 1865;
Disability: Lumbago, heart disease.

Living with them were their son Ulysses 42 years plus their widowed daughter, Harriet Green 49 years. Harriet's children were there, too: Roma 22 and Ira J. 21. Ira was working as a farm laborer.

Fred Stevers, Jack and Melvina's great-grandson was also there. He was less than two years old. Reno Sheets, another grandson, was 24 years old.

Jack Sheets, as he was known, was born in Gallia County in 1832. He was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting in Company G, 195th Ohio Valley Infantry, in February1865. He had seven sons and three daughters: Charles, Elmer, Frank, William H., Ulysses, Ernest, Alba, Harriett, Abigail, and Rebecca, who is my mother. She told us of the hardships they went through while Grandpa was away in the Army. They made the laundry soap from lye made from wood ashes; their candles were made from tallow. Mother remembered holding the candle while grandma doctored the children who were ill.

Grandpa Sheets was a very religious man. Mother said the nearest he ever swore was "Confound it" when he was real provoked.