, her home in
Briarcliff Manor, New York, in 1895 On February 18, 1868, Margaret Louisa was married to
Elliott Fitch Shepard (1833–1893) in the Church of the Incarnation in New York. He was the son of Fitch Shepard and Delia Maria Dennis. Shepard was a lawyer, banker, and owner of the
Mail and Express newspaper, as well as a founder and president of the
New York State Bar Association. Together, they had five daughters and one son: • Florence Shepard (1869–1869), who died young. • Maria Louise Shepard (1870–1948), who married
William Jay Schieffelin (1866–1955), a descendant of
John Jay. •
Edith Shepard (1872–1954), who married Ernesto Fabbri (1874–1943). • Margaret Shepard (1873–1895), who died unmarried of
pneumonia. •
Alice Louise Shepard (1874–1950), who married
Dave Hennen Morris (1872–1944), the
U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and son of
John Albert Morris. •
Elliot Fitch Shepard, Jr. (1877–1927), who married Esther Potter, and after their divorce, Eleanor Leigh Terradell (1882–1962). Margaret died at her apartment on 998
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on March 3, 1924. She is buried in the Vanderbilt Private Section, a burial ground just outside the Vanderbilt Mausoleum
Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island. At her death, she left over $5,000,000 in trust to her daughters. She donated $180,000 to charities, $20,000 to each of her sixteen grandchildren, and $100,000 to the
Scarborough Presbyterian Church,
Residences The Shepards owned a townhouse (double mansion) (1882) on
Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street designed by
John B. Snook, provided to them by her father and shared with her sister
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, who was married to William Douglas Sloane and, after his death,
Henry White, the
American Ambassador to France and
Italy, and a signatory of the
Treaty of Versailles. They also owned
Woodlea, built between 1892 and 1895, a
McKim, Mead & White-designed country estate in
Scarborough, New York, a neighborhood of
Briarcliff Manor. The estate is now operated as
Sleepy Hollow Country Club. ==References==