Marriage to Miss H. Olney, a native of New York.

The evidence

• “Shopiere; born in New York, in 1811 ; came to Wisconsin in 1844, locating at Janesville ; remained six months ; he then moved to Turtle and pre-empted 160 acres in Sec. 4, which he sold in 1846 ; he then purchased a farm of forty acres at La Prairie, his present homestead. Married, in 1834, Miss H. Olney, a native of New York ; they had ei";ht children, four boys and four girls ; two girls and one boy dead; has been Justice of the Peace fourteen years ;”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/26-bios-la-prairie.md, PDF p. 831 / book p. 835

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources