William Shelpman was a native of Ohio, and was an agriculturist. He was a devout member of th e Methodist Episcopal church, and was a benevolent man, and died in 1856, aged thirty-nine ye ars. Mother Shelpman was also a native of Ohio, and she died at the age of twenty-eight. Ther e were four daughters - Samantha; Emily J., deceased; Adaline, wife of E. T. Rector, residin g in Indianapolis, who is a carpenter and joiner by trade and was a soldier in the Civil wa r for three years. They are adherents of the Methodist Episcopal church. Adaline previously m arried to J. H. Brown, now deceased, and three children were born - Almer W., Minnie E. and F rank H. The next daughter is Hannah, wife of Henry Stephenson, a resident of Lincoln, Neb., a nd he is an agriculturist. They have five children.