Southampton-Charlotte County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Shepherd, L. Inez Britt, 1936 

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INEZ BRITT SHEPHERD 

   Mrs. Inez Britt Shepherd, wife of Prof. L.H. Shepherd of Charlotte C.H., 
Virginia, and the daughter of Mrs. Walter H. Britt and the late Walter H. 
Britt of Boykins, died in Boykins Wednesday after a brief illness.  Mrs. 
Shepherd was 34 years of age, a native of Boykins, graduating at the Boykins 
High School and the Harrisonburg State Teachers College.  She taught in the 
Charlotte C.H. High School for three years, where she met Mr. Shepherd, 
principal of that school, and they were married August 12, 1925.  She was an 
active and consistent member of the Charlotte Courthouse M.E. Church, and of 
its missionary organizations, and was prominent in the civic and social 
activities of the town.

   Besides her husband, Prof. Leonard Hall Shepherd, principal of the 
Charlotte Courthouse High School, she leaves a daughter, Mildred Hall, nine 
years of age; her mother, Mrs. Britt; two brothers, John M. Britt and Walter 
H. Britt, Jr., and one sister, Mrs. Herman O. Carlton, all of Boykins, besides 
a wide circle of friends.

   Funeral services were conducted from the Britt residence in Boykins 
yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock by Rev. J.L. Kibler of the Boykins M.E. 
Church, assisted by Rev. Graham S. Carlton of Stony Creek, Va., and Rev. Frank 
B. Handley of Boykins.  Burial was made in the family plot, Beechwood 
Cemetery, Boykins.  The casket was covered with a pall of pink roses and white 
lilies, and there were many handsome floral tributes.  The pallbearers were: 
J.M. Hill, Everett Bryant, Carroll Edwards, Earl W. Bryant, Prof. John Y. 
Mason, Dr. J.M. Bland, F.A. Hines and W.W. White, Jr., friends of the family 
serving as honorary bearers.

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INEZ BRITT SHEPHERD 

   Funeral services for Mrs. Inez Shepherd, who died June 10, wife of L.H. 
Shepherd of Charlotte C.H., were held from the residence of her mother, Mrs. 
Walter H. Britt, in Boykins, June 11, at 4 o’clock by Rev. J.L. Kibler of 
Boykins M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. G.S. Carlton of Stony Creek, Rev. F.B. 
Handley of Boykins and Rev. Dr. Hopkins of the Presbyterian Church, Charlotte 
C.H.  Mrs. G.S. Carlton sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus"; and the Boykins 
Quartette sang "The Old Rugged Cross," "Abide With Me" and "Does Jesus Care." 
Burial was made in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins.

   Mrs. Shepherd was a graduate of Boykins High School and Harrisonburg State 
Teachers College.  She taught in Charlotte C.H. for several years, where her 
husband is principal of that school.  She numbered a host of friends in her 
home town and at Charlotte C.H.  Though quiet and unassuming, she possessed 
the happy faculty of making friends.  She was a woman of fine qualities and 
will be greatly missed.  She was a member of the Methodist Church and active 
in all of its organizations and was prominent in social and civic activities 
of the town.  In the home of this woman affection and kindness abounded.  Very 
tender and beautiful were the ties that bound the little family together. 
There can be no measure of influence for the good of such a life.

   Those attending the funeral from a distance were, from Charlotte C.H.: Dr. 
and Mrs. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Hoy, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Harvey, Mrs. Nash, Mrs. 
Dunnavant, Floyd Collins, Mrs. William, Mrs. Vassar and Misses Moss and Ponton 
of the high school faculty of Charlotte C.H.; from Richmond, Mrs. Mary Finney 
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W.H.F. Enos, Dr. and Mrs. Peyton Lewis; from 
Charlottesville, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shepherd and son and Mrs. A.E. Haden, Prof. 
Floyd Joyner of Ivor, Mrs. M.A. Thomas, T.B. Bell, Burton McLemore, A.B. 
Farmer, Miss Ellen Babb of Courtland; Miss Frances Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. 
Hill, Mrs. Maggie Hill, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Parker, 
Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Mann, Mrs. J.E. Mann, Mrs. Ralph Mann, Walter Parker and 
Miss Elizabeth Mann, all of Murfreesboro; Mrs. J.L. Leavitt and Lawrence 
Leavitt, Portsmouth; Mrs. Norman Moseley, Littleton, N.C., and Rev. and Mrs. 
G.S. Carlton of Stony Creek.  One who knew her.


Lillian Inez (BRITT; Mrs. Leonard H.) SHEPHERD, former Charlotte Co. teacher, 
Boykins native, d. 10 Jun 1936, Boykins, age 34, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 82*), Boykins, 
   11 Jun 1936, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 12, 1936, p. 8; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 19, 1936, p. 9 

*Her brother is buried there also. 
   Their parents are buried in Annex 2, Plot 101. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 


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