Mrs. Martha Washington Sheppard, who died in this city January 13, was born in Palmyra, Mo., February 22, 1850. When but three
months old her parents, Dr. and Mrs. William R. Allen, left Independence, Mo., for Oregon. They reached Oregon City October 29 of the
same year and soon after settled in Canemah. Mrs. Allen afterward married William Barlow. Mrs. Allen was married to George Alfred
Sheppard may 16, 1866. She was a member of the Oregon Pioneer society. At the time of her death she was living with her daughter,
Mrs. William Barlow Tull, 420 East Twenty-second street North. Besides her daughter she is survived by two grandchildren, Captain
George Sheppard Clarke of Georgia and Mrs. Dorothy Clarke Perkins of San Francisco; also two half brothers. William S. Tull of Barlow
and Cassius U. Barlow of Piedmont, Cal., and one half sister, Mrs. Mary Barlow Wilkins of this city. Her own sister, Mrs. Marion
Wallace Miller, wife of Thomas D. Miller of Oregon City, died in 1915.