 His wife, Elizabeth Bull, had one child, Fayette.Elizabeth (known as Betsey) and Zebulon had two children together, John J Shipherd (co-founder of both Oberlin and Olivet Colleges) and Minerva Shipherd.Shipherd was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815).