• Evidence from genealogical and church (Bishop's report) records prove that the Shepherd family came to Utah in 1852; a child died in 1852 "on the plains" and a child was born in Utah Sep. 1853.

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 31

Sources

• Presiding Bishopric. Immigrant Location Committee Minutes, (20 September - 13 October 1852).
• "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852." In Wright, Norman Edgar, ed., Key to Migration Sources Great Britain and North America.