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Mary Lucinda Badger and Charles Frederick Shedd

CHARLES FREDERICK SHEDD, son of EUNICE AUGUSTA ADAMS and JAMES ADAMS SHEDD, was born February 6, 1842 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio,1498 and died February 21, 1922 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.456 He is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.456, 4377

He married MARY LUCINDA BADGER on October 27, 1874 in Buchanan County, Missouri.7770 She was born August 18, 1843 in Denmark, Lee, Iowa,456 and died August 10, 1918 in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.456 She is buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.456, 5650

Children of MARY LUCINDA BADGER and CHARLES FREDERICK SHEDD:

  1. CAROLINE EMILY SHEDD, b. September 28, 1875, Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska;1710 d. July 21, 1934, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.4563
  2. JAMES ALBERT SHEDD, b. February 14, 1878, Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska;1710, 706 m. GRACE MABEL CARTER in 1902; d. June 2, 1952, St. Louis, Missouri.456, 706
  3. HARRIET MAY SHEDD, b. May 21, 1880;1710 d. August 30, 1894, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska;1710 bur. Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska.5649
  4. CHARLES FREDERICK SHEDD, b. June 18, 1882, Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska;1710 m. BERTHA WILLIAMS GIFFORD on December 1, 1913 in Eaton, Preble, Ohio4374; d. June 15, 1914, Kenwood, Pinellas, Florida.4375
  5. GEORGE CURTIS SHEDD, b. October 6, 1885, Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska;1710 d. May 21, 1886, Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska;1710 bur. Fairfield Cemetery, Clay County, Nebraska.456

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Military Service

Civil War

Charles F. Shedd

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Newspaper Articles

Saint Paul Daily Globe, May 2, 18917494

For Handling Grain.

The Northwestern Miller says that Charles F. Shedd, of Fairfield, Neb., is endeavoring to interest Minneapolis capital in some of his inventions for handling grain. His devices comprise a portable dump and elevator for filling high cribs and bins with grain; a portable drag belt or conveyor and elevator for drawing the grain from these cribs and bins to the corn sheller, wagon, or car; a portable elevator for transferring grain from one car to another, or from bin to car; a portable grain bin holding 500 bushels; improvements in circular, stationary and portable cribs and roofing for same, and in air-tight bins for troating hot and fermented grain. This apparatus is designed more especially for handling grain in the country, and particularly corn, and by its use a great saving in both wastage and labor is claimed to be possible.

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Semi-Weekly State Jounal, January 24, 18967495

LINCOLN MAN'S INVENTION.

Representative Strode today called upon the secretary of war and laid before him, with an urgent recommendation for immediate consideration, plans and specifications for a disappearing gun-carriage, the invention of Charles F. Shedd of Lincoln, Neb. The new interest taken at the war deferment in ordnance matters, the natural result of pending diplomatic conditions, has stimulated greatly the desire of officials for information as to any new ideas of American inventors regarding improved ordnance. Mr. Shedd's invention will be very carefully examined. It will doubtless be at once referred first to General Flagler, chief of ordnance, and by him to the board of ordnance and fortifications, which holds regular sessions in the war department, and which, it is understood, is now carefully investigating all inventions of this character. Judge Strode urged strongly upon the secretary of war the importance of Mr. Shedd's invention, and there is no question that it will be considered upon its merits.

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Obituaries

Sunday State Journal, August 11, 19185650

Mary L. Shedd, seventy-four years old, the wife of Charles Shedd, 2503 North Thirty-third street, died at 9:50 a. m. Saturday. The funeral will be held from the home at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Interment will be in Wyuka.

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Nebraska State Journal, February 24, 19224377

VETERAN IS LAID TO REST

Funeral Services Held For Charles Frederick Shedd.

A large group of members of the Grand Army of the Republic and other friends gathered at the First Congregational church on Thursday afternoon to pay a final tribute to the memory of Charles Frederick Shedd. Familiar hymns were sung by Miss Abbott. The pastor, Dr. John Andrews Holmes, told of the simplicity, the dignity and the completeness of the live of the veteran who had just passed on. He was a native of Ohio, who had passed his eightieth year on February 6. He enlisted on September 16, 1861, and after thirteen months of honorable service was mustered out on account of impaired health. After the war he settled at Fairfield, Nebraska, and in 1890 became a resident of Lincoln. Dr. Holmes had known him only four and a half years, the days when he was obliged to face growing infirmity, sorrow and poverty, and always found him staunch and true. His attendance at church services had been regular until a few weeks ago, and he telephoned to his pastor every week a hope that he would be able to be in his pew on the following Sunday. Dr. Holmes noted the death of two aged members of the congregation within two days, Deacon Shedd and Mrs. H. A. Tuttle, and said that he would be willing to have the work of the Christian church judged by such lives.

A score of Grand Army comrades then gathered around the open casket and conducted their service, which grows more impressive every time it is repeated. At the close the bugle sounded taps. The grand army ceremony was given in the church instead of at the grave, on account of the state of the weather. The pallbearers were ushers and deacons of the church. A large number of floral tributes were made and the casket, as usual in the case of the burial of a veteran, was covered with a silken flag. The remaining members of Mr. Shedd's family, his daughter Caroline and his son Arthur Shedd of Sioux Falls, S. D., were present. George Shedd, whose father was a cousin, was in attendance from Ashland.

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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat, March 17, 19227492

CHAS. F. SHEDD DIES IN WEST

DEATH RECALLS EARLY HISTORY OF SHEDD FAMILY IN DENMARK

Charles F. Shedd, one of the last survivors of the old Shedd family of Denmark, Iowa, which was instrumental in the early building of Denmark, died at Lincoln, Neb. February 21, according to word which has been received here.

There are few people still living in Fort Madison, and a number in and around Denmark, that remember the original Shedd brothers, Curtis, James A.; Squire Shedd, and Dr. George Shedd. They were of a new Hampshire family.

Curtis Shedd helped to lay out Denmark, and was one of the founders of the Denmark academy, and the Congregational church at Denmark. He was twice married, and died about 1876, leaving a widow and no children. The bulk of his large estate went to the Denmark academy.

Dr. George Shedd, the youngest of the brothers, after the death of his wife, went to Nebraska to live with his children. After his death his body was brought to Denmark for burial. Dr. Shedd had three children. Two were twin daughters. Martha died in early married life, and Mary, Mrs. Scott of Ashland, Neb., died a few years ago. His son, Hibbard, also died.

James A. Shedd died in October 1876, at Denmark. He was the father of three sons and two daughters. In coming west he first made his home at Dayton, Ohio, where Charles Shedd was born February 6, 1842. He came to Denmark about 1849, and there the children grew up. His three sons, James A. Jr., Charles F. and George enlisted in the army at the beginning of the Civil war. George was killed at Vicksburg; James and Charles lived to come home, but James died from an accident in the spring of 1876.

Charles F. Shedd spent two or three years after the war in Denmark, and then went west settling at Fairfield, Neb., where he resided until 1890, when he went to Lincoln, where he lived until his death. He was a member of the Congregational church for almost his whole lifetime and was a deacon of the First Congregational church of Lincoln for many years. Mr. Shedd was buried from this church on the afternoon of February 22. After the church services, a large group of Grand Army men conducted their service in the church. At the close, the bugle sounded taps. There were many flower, and the casket was covered with a silk flag, in remembrance of his service in the Union forces. The ushers and deacons of the church were pall bearers.

The pastor told of the simplicity, the dignity and the completeness of the life of the veteran, and said he would be willing to have the work of the Christian church judged by such a life.

Mr. Shedd leaves two children, Miss Carrie Shedd of Lincoln, and James A. Shedd of Sioux Falls, S. D., the second direct descendant of the original James A. Shedd to bear the name.

The men of this New Hampshire family brought west with them the sterling qualities that make a nation, and were honored and respected among the people with whom they lived for years. The admirable qualities of the whole family, friends testify, were strongly exemplified in Charles F. Shedd.

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Nebraska State Journal, August 31, 18945649

Hattie May, aged fourteen years, duaghter of Charles F. and Mary L. Shedd, died yesterday at 10:30 a. m. The funeral services will be held at the residence, 345 south Twenty-first street, at 10 o'clock a. m. today, after which the remains will be taken to Fairfield, Neb., on the 12 o'clock train for interment.

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Census Records
DateLocationEnumerated Names
September 12, 18501712Division 28, Lee, Iowa
June 20, 18604Denmark, Lee, Iowa
August 5, 18701708Denmark, Lee, Iowa
June 5, 18804378Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska
June 6, 1900177Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
April 15, 1910176Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
January 10, 1920316Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska


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