Crisp County GaArchives News.....BEN SHEPPARD July 15, 1941
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WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 March 15, 2011, 12:30 pm

CORDELE DISPATCH July 15, 1941
CORDELE AND CRISP COUNTY LOST ONE OF THEIR BEST CITIZENS IN THE DEATH OF BEN
SHEPPARD WHICH OCCURED RECENTLY AT HIS FOURTEENTH AVE HOME. BEN DIDN'T HAVE A
PAID PUBLICITY AGENT. HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER SERVED THAT PURPOSE .THE DISPATCH
IS GLAD THAT SUCH A FINE AND UNSELFISH MAN WAS PERMITTED TO LIVE A LONG AND
USEFUL LIFE IN THIS COMMUNITY.BEN WAS STRONG FOR CORDELE AND CRISP COUNTY AND
PARTICULARY FOR THE YOUNGSTERS ,MANY OF WHOM HE KNEW BY NAME AND CLAIMED AS HIS
WARM FRIENDS.THE PUBLIC DIDN'T SEE MUCH OF HIM THE PAST FEW YEARS BECAUSE HIS
HEALTH WAS SUCH THAT HE HAD TO REMAIN CLOSE IN AND FOLLOW HIS DOCTOR'S
INSTRUCTIONS TO KEEP QUIET .THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IMPRESSED US ABOUT
BEN .HE CHEERFULLY OBSERVED LIVING REGULATIONS FORMULATED FOR HIM BY THOSE IN
WHOM HE HAD CONFIDENCE ,ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN AN ACTIVE AND BUSY MAN FOR MANY
YEARS .ONE OF HIS OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS WAS THAT HE EXCERSISED AS MUCH
KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION IN GIVING ORDERS AS HE DID IN OBEYING THEM, WHEN
COMING FROM WHAT HE CONSIDERED AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES. BEN SHEPPARD COULD HAVE
EASILY LOOKED BACK FROM HIS BED OF AFFLICTION ON THE RECORD OF ONE OF THE OLDEST
AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED FAMILIES OF THIS SECTION OF THE STATE,ITS ACHIEVEMENT IN THE
MATTER OF UNSELFISH PUBLIC SERVICE AND IN MANY OTHER WAYS AND FELT A PARDONABLE
PRIDE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE WAS ONE OF ITS USEFUL AND BELOVED MEMBERS.BEN
LOVED PEOPLE AND HE WAS A FRIEND TO EVERYONE WHO LET HIM BE.

Additional Comments:
THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO MY PATERNAL  GRANDFATHER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHEPPARD.

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