Booker Shepard

Booker was born about 1879.  Booker's father was John R Shepard and his mother is Martha Mattie Edwards.  His paternal grandparents are Father Shepard and Elizabeth. He had a brother and six sisters, named Thomas, Mollie Jane, Mattie, Minnie, Ethel Mae, Lizzie and Fannie.  He is the fourth youngest of the eight children.