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This is a private cemetery, on private property just off of Country Club Road in Gladewater. Thanks go to Maribeth Buce for this reading. Cemetery View Cemetery Gate NOTE: Sunday, October 9, 2005 Eddie Phillips, Etta Withers & Elaine Martin visited this cemetery and took pictures. Eddie Phillips told the following story. While Eddie was visiting with John Ben Shepperd in the early to mid 1980's, the police arrived at John Ben's home. It seems that John Ben had errected a Texas Medallion for Elvey Shepperd at the Gay-Hagen Cemetery, and it had been stolen for the second time. The police had recovered the medallion and was returning it to John Ben. The Gay-Hagen Cemetery was unkept and being vandalized often, so John Ben did not erect the madallion at Gay-Hagen again. Sometime before his death, John Ben Shepperd erected the Elvey Shepperd medallion in his private cemetery. It is located inside the cemetery fence, about mid way down the left side. Elvey Shepperd (1779-1860) Born South Carolina. Daughter of Elijah Anderson, Solider of American Revolution, & Elvira Brack. Married William Shepperd in Georgia, Feb 22, 1802. Husband died 1824 in Alabama. Led her family to Texas in 1845, where with help of sons & slaves, she built one of first homes in this area - a log cabin that stood for over 100 years. Recorded - 1965 John
Ben Shepperd John
Ben Shepperd Jr
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