Short Biography of Ebenezer Shedd

Dea. Ebenezer Shedd was born in Mason, N. H., 6 Nov. 1776, but was soon taken by his parents to Rindge, N. H., where all his youth was spent. About 1797 he went to West Windsor, Vt., in company with his brother, and taking up some land made ready for a home in a new country where he became a successful farmer and a much respected townsman. In 1828 he removed from West Windsor to Weathersfield, Vt., and there made his home for the remainder of his life. He held many public offices including selectman and town clerk, and was also a Free Mason. In 1810 he and his wife made a public profession of religion and ever afterward they were foremost in every Christian work. For many years he was a deacon of the Congregational Church.

For nearly forty years he held the office of justice of the peace and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens in a rare degree. He was almost always the chosen arbiter in all the petty difficulties that arose in the community and this was because of his great and consistent piety as well as his sound judgment. One of his townsman has said that "he was the most perfect specimen of God's handiwork in the human form" he had ever known. His religion was a vital principle which he constantly displayed in private and in public, and expounding it with precept upon precept quietly to all with whom he came in contact, and what was far better, alluring them to accept his teachings by his own shining example. Thus was his long life a blessing upon the community and the memory of it a pleasure to all who knew him. He died in Weathersfield 11 Mar. 1866 in his ninetieth year.

He married 12 Nov. 1801, Fanny Bannister, born in Windsor 25 Jan. 1780, daughter of Silas and Thankful (Ely) Bannister. She was in all respects a fitting helpmeet to her worthy husband, dying 17 Aug. 1876 at the advanced age of ninety-six years.

Source: "Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920" ¹⁷¹⁰