Shep's Place Family Tree

According to Claudie Sheets, Samuel Sheets b 1824, d August 1870 46 yrs was murdered, probably in a free-for-all down at Crown City. Claudie thought that he was married to "Nude" Willcoxon, but it was Delilah Caldwell.

Gallipolis Journal:
"A fracus occurred at Rankin's Point on Saturday morning last, about 2 o'clock, eventuating in the death of a man named Sheets. It appears that a number of persons had collected at a deserted house, and were enjoying themselves in a dance. A constable named Sowers, who had a warrant against one of the party called upon Sheets to assist him, the arrest was resisted, blows were exchanged, one of which took effect on the head or some vital part of Sheets, who expired in about half an hour. A message was received during the day, calling on Marshal Langley to go down and make the arrest of the person supposed to have inflicted the blow, one Williams, who with one or two others were secured and having been examined before a justice, were committed to the county jail to await their trial at the next court."

On the same page was the following article:
"Founding a City at Guyandotte ‎[Huntington, West Virginia]‎.
--It is stated that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad have purchased a large tract of land on the river side, at the point of intersection of the Guyandotte river with the Ohio, and extending down four miles.--Upon this they will lay out a town to be named Huntington, after the President of the road. The new bridge across the Ohio will be built there, and the leading capitalists have taken hold of the enterprise to make it the leading city of the upper Ohio, calculating upon advantages which are not possessed by any other locality.

---The new packet for the Kanawha and Gallipolis Packet Company has been named C.P. Huntington, in honor of the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. she will arrive here this week, and will enter the trade in place of the Mountain Boy."