Yesterday we laid my mother to rest as she took her final resting place in Greenwood Cemetery in San Diego. Maida Imogene Gower Shepard (192...

Hello Family and Friends, Youngster Thelma with her mother Bura Davis Shepard (abt. 1941) Many of you may already know that my aunt Thelma S...

It is with great sadness that I share with all of you that my mother Maida Shepard, passed away earlier this month. Late in the evening on A...

I have had the opportunity in recent days to spend some quality time with my aunt Thelma Shepard Boyd. She has been in the hospital here in ...

Every so often when researching our family, I come across a person whose life story is so interesting that it needs to be told. My 9th Great...

Mother's Day 2023 With Mothers' Day this weekend, I am reminded of the many women in our family tree who have had an immeasurable im...

Today is the anniversary of the birth of two of the more important people in my life. My father Eugene Shepard was born in 1921, 102 years ...

With the recently concluded month of March being Women's History Month , I feel compelled to write about a couple of women in our family...

Ann Mayes Rutledge (1813-1835) was a distant cousin of mine related to me through my Grandmother Nola Shannon Gower (1903-2004). Born in Ke...

Many ancestors in our family tree were parents of numerous children. For example, I was one of six children. Other parents in our larger fam...