Sarah Gibbs & Jacob Shepard

Sarah was first married to Jacob Shepard, a seaman. Jacob's ship was lost at sea and he was presumed dead. Later, Sarah married Nathaniel Gibbs and they had a child. After several years, a shipwrecked and marooned Jacob Shepard returned to Beaufort to find that Sarah had remarried. It was agreed that Sarah would remain with her second husband and family as long as she lived but would spend eternity at the side of her first husband.

Jacob Shepard died in 1773, Sarah Gibbs in 1792.