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Memorable Manitobans: Leslie Harmon Shepley (1874-1959)
Born on a farm in Raleigh Township, Ontario on 27 May 1874, son of Nelson H. Shepley (1835-1917) and Lydia Ann Jenner (1842-1913), he worked in building construction at Windsor before coming to Manitoba where he was a contractor at Winnipeg and Brandon. Later, for more than 20 years, he farmed south of Brandon until retirement in 1945. On 27 March 1907, he married Elizabeth May Grant (1874-1970) at Brandon and they had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Shepley. The family lived at 625 - 20th Street, Brandon. He died at Brandon on 23 June 1959 and was buried in the Brandon Cemetery.
See also:
Manitoba Business: Shepley Construction Company
Sources:
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Leslie Hammon Shepley, Elizabeth May Grant], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 29 June 1959, page 42.
Obituary [Mary Elizabeth Shepley], Brandon Sun, 2 February 1996, page 8.
Nelson H. Shepley, FindAGrave.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 April 2023
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