• 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 Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.