Early County  Georgia Obits Mrs. Annie Lizzie Shepard

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Mother of Blakely Lady Dies At Leary

Mrs. Annie Lizzie Shepard, 83, widow of the late William
B. Shepard and mother of Mrs. John Hudspeth of Blakely,
died at her home in Leary on last Wednesday afternoon at
4 o'clock.  Mrs. Shepard's death was attributed to a
heart condition and followed a three-day illness.


A native of Miller County, Mrs. Shepard was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McNair and was born 27 July
1866.  She had resided in Leary the past 13 years and was
a member of the Leary Baptist Church.


Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock at the Baptist church in Leary, with the Reverend
Charles Allen officiating.  Interment was in Colquitt
cemetery, with Minter Funeral Home in charge and Eddie
Hudspeth, J. O. Shepard, Jr., John F. McNair, Bill
Pullen, Fred Martin, and Leroy Shepard, all grandsons of
the deceased, serving as pallbearers.


Surviving Mrs. Shepard are two brothers, Bob McNair, of
Blakely, and "Bud" McNair, of Damascus, and the following
children: Dr. James Leroy Shepard, of Damascus; Dr. W. O.
Shepard, of Bluffont; J. O. Shepard, of Colquitt; Mrs. W.
R. Pullen, of Damascus; Mrs. Fred martin, of Hilton; B.
B. Shepard, of Leary, and Mrs. John Hudspeth, of Blakely.
Thirty-seven grandchildren and twenty-six great-
grandchildren also survive.


Source: Early County News Volume LXXXX No. 49, Blakely,
Georgia Thursday Morning, July 27, 1950, Front Page.

*Note Elizabeth Annie "Lizzie" McNair married William
Byrd "Bill" Shepard December 1886.  Elizabeth Annie
"Lizzie" McNair parents where John Fowler McNair and
Sarah Angeline Hearn.

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