HEROD, Amanda (Shepard)

Date of birth:  16 Oct 1853 – Boone County, Indiana
Date of death: 6 Jul 1896

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 24, 1896,
Volume XXXVII Number 2, page 6 column 6

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OBITUARY.

Mrs. Amanda Herod, who departed this life July 6, 1896, was born in Boone County, Indiana, October 16, 1853. She was the daughter of Wm. and Polly Shepard, who died while she was quite young. She was raised by Daniel P. Waush and married to Thomas W. Herod, May 26, 1873. To them were born five children, four of whom survive—two sons and two daugh­ters. Sallie, the eldest daughter, died February 13, 1893. Mrs. Herod was a Christian lady, having professed religion and united with the Bethlehem church of the regular Predestination Baptist faith, in July 1887 and was a faithful lover of the truth until death.

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Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry