Notes:

. Joseph is the son of Catherine Fisher & Joseph Shepard.

Joseph Shepard owned a water-powered grist & saw mill in 1830 on the west branch of the Don River north of Sheppard Ave east of Bathurst Street.
The grist mill run by his son Thomas was shipping flour to Montreal & the sawmill run by his son Michael was casting bullets at the time of the Rebellion in 1837. Following the Rebellion & his return to Lansing, Thomas took over the old saw mill left to him by his father.

. 1837 Dec 7 -The Jurors for the Queen upon Daniel Shepard, Yeoman, Michael Shepard, yeoman, Michael, yeoman, Joseph Shepard, yeoman, Thomas Shepard, all late of Twp. of York, on the 7 December, 1837, in the first year of reign of our Lady the Queen, did unlawfully & traitorously complain insurrection & rebellion with a great multitude of persons & upwards around & arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with colors flying & with rifles, swords, pistols, piles, clubs & other weapons gathered together against the Crown. On Dec 7 the above named did with force arrive at the Township of York with diverse other false traitors to a great number, to the number of 500 & more arrive & arrayed in a warlike manner.

. Petition of Jacob, Michael, Joseph & Daniel Shepard of Twp. of York,
Humbly showeth that your petitions are now prisoners in the Home District Goal (Toronto) changed but not yet arraigned.
Your petitioners were unfortunately led to take part in the recent treasonable insurrections through the artifices by desperate & unprincipled persons at whose pertains they were unhappily seduced from their allegiance. They petition the UC Executive Council for a pardon as may seem proper.
Signed, Jacob Shepard, Michael Shepard, Joseph Shepard, Daniel Shepard.
Envelope: In Council, 4 May 1838. Treason. Joseph & Jacob Shepard, pardoned upon giving Bail to keep the peace.
In Council, Daniel Shepard to be banished for his natural life.
Michael Shepard to be transported for this natural life to the Colony of Van Dieman’s Land.
Ref: 1838 March, Upper Canada Sundries, Index C9824, Image 719 & Page 105888-92/C6898, Image 688.

Note: Michael Shepard, yeoman, Thomas Shepard & John Montgomery, convicts, ordered for transportation to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania), but the the way, escaped from Fort Henry, Kingston.

. 1837 May 10, Obituary for Joseph Shepard, The Constitution Newspaper, the newspaper of William Lyon Mackenzie.
Mr. Shepard was born in the colony of New Hampshire, New England, in 1767, 9 years before the colonies unfurled the flag of independence & sought a name among the nations of the earth. His father & mother were natives of Ireland, & often have I heard him speak in the most indignant terms of the oppressors of the land of his forefathers, & of those wretched & (in many cases) infatuate beings called Orangemen who are the mean instruments of that oppression.
Ref: The Constitution Newspaper, Town of York, Toronto, Ontario, newspaper of William Lyon Mackenzie.

. 1863 Nov 3 - Advertisement Valuable Property known as Sutton Mills, situated on Lots 14 &15, Concession 3, York East of Yonge street, about 9 miles from Toronto, The mill is nearly new & contains 3 Run of Burr Stones, Dwelling House & Orchard and all necessary outbuildings for a large Milling trade.
Apply to Joseph Shepard, Willowdale.

. 1865 Dec 8 - Adjourned Meeting for Formation of Oil Companies at York Mills, was held on Wed. Afternoon, at the hotel*, York Mills to complete the formation of a limited liability oil company. The title was changed to the York Mills Oil & Mineral Co. Thos. Jack?, of Willowdale, was elected a trustee, instead of Mr. Joseph Shepard, who was not present when elected at first meeting & declined act.

. 1887 Jan 4 - Real Estate Transfers recorded yesterday at the City Registry: J Hewlett, Toronto, estate agent: Joseph Shepard, Toronto, Livery stable keeper, the s 85 left Lots 11 & 12, S. College st., 85 ft w of a lane by 52 ft deep, $2,600.

. 1900 Apr 26 - Obituary, son of the First Settler in this district - An active business man during a long life.
Joseph Shepard, youngest son of Toronto's first settler, passed away Monday morning at 9 o'clock at his late residence at Lansing, in his 85th year. His father, Joseph Shepard, came to this district in 1785, A UE Loyalist from Lower Canada & traded with the Indians for years, being the first & only white man in this district. As settlers came in, he moved up Yonge street to Willowdale where he built a flour & lumber mills. He contested the riding at York's first election, which resulted in a tie. He fought & was wounded at the battle of York, & was found next morning by his wife, lying in his frozen blood, where he had been all night. He died in the spring of 1837.
Joseph Shepard, his son, was engaged in milling, lumbering, farming & mercantile life for years, an active business man almost to the last. He was a Reformer in politics & leaves 2 sons & 3 daughters.
Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. - - -

Birth:
Lot 17, Concession I, West-of Yonge,

Died:
(Shepard & Yonge, Willowdale.) COD: cystitis - 4 months.

Buried:

Joseph married Elizabeth N WILLSON, .5 in 1847 in York Twp., York Co., Ontario. Elizabeth (daughter of Stillwell WILLSON, The Younger and Statira Edith MONTGOMERY) was born on 23 Feb 1826 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario; died on 24 Oct 1885 in Lansing, North York Twp., Ontario; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

By 1870 Joseph E Sheppard had taken over his father's business, was postmaster, general merchant & operator of the flour & lumber mills near Bathurst Street.
Ref: Pioneering in North York. - - -

Birth:
Willowdale-Toronto. Alt DOB 1847 & 1849.

Died:
Aged 59y, 3A Harbor St.

Joseph married Harriett M MULHOLLAND on 3 Oct 1876 in Newtonbrook, Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario. Harriett was born in 1850 in Newtonbrook, Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario; died on 21 Jul 1918 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1920 Dec 14 - York Co. Pioneer Called By Death, Mrs. Catherine Gray of UEL Stock Dies at Lansing
One of the oldest of the pioneer residents of York to passed away at Lansing on Friday Dec 10, in the person of Mrs. Catherine Gray, relict of the late Robert Gray of York Mills.
Of U.E. Loyalist stock, a daughter of the late John C Van Notsrand, whose grandfather left Long Island, NY, in 1800 & settled at York Mills & of his wife Mary, whose father, Joseph Shepard, was reputed to be one of the first white men to attempt to carve out a home in the wilderness a few miles north of what was destined to become Little York, the deceased spent the whole of her lifetime of nearly 89 years in that neighborhood.
In addition to recollections of the traditions of the early settlers, of the days when her mother's father, as a winter recreation, would don his snow shoes & purse a deer until the animal, exhausted by its flight through the deep snow, became an easy victim of his hunting knife, she was well informed on all the topics of the day & took a deep interest in the details of the great world war & its sequel.
Surviving her are 2 sisters, 2 sons & 3 daughters.
Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. - - -

Birth:
ALT NAME: Mary E; ALT DOB 1854 and 1852 / Census 1891.

Notes:

Obituary
1897 Jul 8 - Virginia News. Lyman Shepard, a well known Leesburg, red at Manassas Thursday night, aged about 47 years. His death was the result of bowel trouble, superinduced by the heat.
Ref: Alexandria Gazette & Virginia Advance newspaper, published 1897 Jul 10.

Note: Bowel trouble suggests he died of heart - heat stroke. PJ Ahlberg. - - -

Birth:
Alt DOB: 1852. Troy, NY?

Lyman married Mary Ball ELLZEY in 1875 in Gunston Hall, Fairfax Co., Virginia. Mary was born in 1857 in Loudon Co. , Viriginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Child: Abram Hilton Johnston b 1878 5 3, York.

. It was Saida who named the area Lansing, when her father's store was made the postal station also.

. Saida Shepard told her daughter, Mrs. Charles Mile [Milne] he story of what happened during the 1837 Rebellion. After the fiasco of the failed march down Yonge Street, William Lyon Mackenzie sought rest on Jacob Shepard's farm. Troops were searching everywhere for him. The entered & slashed the quilts on the beds with with swords & set the bedding afire. Mrs Sheppard quickly put each blaze out or the whole house would have burned. MacKenzie escaped on horse back but Colonel Van Egmond was discovered & was taken to jail where he died of pneumonia.

. Their large brick store that stood at Shepard & Yonge Streets was restored & moved in about the 1990's to Beecroft Empress Avenues. It sits in a park-like setting a few blocks north of its original location.

. Child of Saida E & Abraham S Johnson is:
Abram Hilton, Johnson, b 3 May, 1878, York Co., Ontario, d. 11 Mar., 1880 Thornhill, ON. - - -

Birth:


Died:
92 Quebec Avenue, Lansing, ON, (Sheppard & Yonge sts.)

Buried:
emaplasyia 7 days, hypertension 3 years.

SAIDA married Abraham Smith Hilton JOHNSON on 26 Oct 1875 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario. Abraham was born on 10 Apr 1848 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario; died on 2 May 1942 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario; was buried in Thornhill Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stilwell J is the son of Elizabeth Willson & Joseph Shepard.

Died:
Single, Aged 70y 7m 17d. Myocarditis, Bronchial asthma.

Buried:
Vancouver. Plot 1919 D050-0006.

Notes:

Statira is the daughter of Elizabeth Willson & Joseph Shepard.

. Ontario Marriage Registration 013065, York co.
David Wm. Gorden, Age 54, Residence British Columbia, Builder, Church of England,
s/o MichaelJohn Gorden,
married Katharine Shephard, Age 25y, Res. West York Twp., Church of England.
d/o Elizabeth Wilson & Joseph Shephard
Wait: Thos Shephard, of W York & Ida E Davy, Niagara, NY.,
Married 1885 Jun 5, at Lansing at the house of the Brides father.

. BC Marriage Registration 95-69-094012, 38012, #821.
George Filmore Cane, Ag 334, res. Vancoer BC,
born Queensville, York Co., Ontario, Bachelor, Barrister-At-Law, Methodist Church pf Canada,
s/o Catherine Befry & Wm. Cane,
married Statira Katherine Gorden, age 33, res. Vancouver, BC.
born Toronto, Canada, Widow. Church of England,
d/o Elizabeth Wilson & Joseph Sheppard
Wit: Arthur E Smith,Victoria, & Edith Scarfow?, Nanimo? BC.

Katherine married George Fillmore CANE on 21 Feb 1895 in Nanaimo, British Columbia. George was born on 28 Dec 1860 in Queensville, East Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; died on 26 Sep 1908 in Vancouver, British Columbia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married David William GORDON on 15 Jun 1886 in Lansing, North York Twp., Ontario. David was born on 27 Feb 1832 in Tecumseh Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lyman married Ellen Beaty THURKLE in c 1908 in Hertford, North Carolina. Ellen was born in 1879 in London, England; died in 1958 in Alberta, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John ADGER in 1910. John was born in c 1890; died in in Washington, DC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Abram Smith Johnson, age 92, was accompanied by his daughter E. S. Malne, to Florida.

Birth:


Died:

Family/Spouse: Charles S MILNE. Charles was born est 1881 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Aged 1 year, 10 months, 8 days.

Notes:

Claire is the daughter of Statira Katherine Shepard & David William Gordon.

Claire married Andor Wilhelmus VONCOBOLY, Jr. on 5 Mar 1913 in St. Michaels Cathedral, Toronto. Andor was born in 1886 in Budapest, Hungary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vancouver is the soon of Statira Katherine Shepard & David William Gordon.

Vancouver married Dorothy Roblin PARKER on 26 Dec 1921 in St. Pauls Methodist Church. Dorothy was born in 1900 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Meade FLINN on 1 Aug 1934. Meade was born in 1892 in Alberta, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Verify, too early?