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Ethel Eliza Buttfield SHEPHERD
1905 Ethel Eliza Buttfield Shepherd
Ethel Eliza Buttfield SHEPHERD  ‎(I4838)‎
Given Names: Ethel Eliza Buttfield
Surname: SHEPHERD
Married Name: Ethel Eliza Buttfield HORWOOD

Gender: FemaleFemale
      

Birth: 6 February 1879 28 19 -- Port Augusta West, South Australia, Australia
Death: 6 July 1976 ‎(Age 97)‎ -- Illoura Baptist Nursing Home, Norwood, South Australia, Australia


Personal Facts and Details
Birth 6 February 1879 28 19 Port Augusta West, South Australia, Australia

Marriage Edgar Stanbridge HORWOOD - ‎[View Family ‎(F1686)‎‎]
15 April 1911 ‎(Age 32)‎ Flinders Street Baptist Church, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: Ethel, second child and first daughter in the Shepherd family, was only thirteen months older than her sister Carey, which means that they may have been very close. When Carey died of diphtheria in October 1889, Ethel was only ten years old.

She then became the only girl in a family of five boys until her sister Lily was born in 1890. Being the only girl, and a bright sensible girl at that, Ethel became "Sissy Mummy" to her brothers and sister. One can imagine what a great help to her mother she was.

Biographical Notes

Note: At the time of her marriage, Ethel was living at Park Terrace, Parkside ‎(so were Beth and Alma Strauss)‎. The witnesses of her marriage to Edgar Horwood were F. William Collmo, Student, Kapunda and ‎[her sister]‎ Lily Shepherd, Nurse, Port Pirie. ‎[Lily spelled her surname Shephard!]‎
Death Notice


Hide Details Source: Adelaide Advertiser

Citation Details:  10 Jul 1976


Note: Horwood. Ethel E.B. - On July 6, at Illoura Baptist Home, loved wife of the late Edgar and beloved mother of Flo, Lauren ‎(Mrs. Carpenter)‎ and Rupert also Ev and Murray ‎(deceased)‎. Fond mother-in-law of Mary, Doug and Dorothy. Aged 97 years. At rest in God's care.
Memories


Hide Details Source: Ethel Shepherd Horwood

Citation Details:  From a tape recording made about 1970


Hide Details Note: "I was born in Port Augusta. Father was managing the Young & Gordon store on the west side of the gulf. It has all changed now. There was a ferry boat from the jetty on the west side to the east. We lived above the store. It was there that I saw the camels brought to Australia, bound for Beltana. They had slings around them. The poor things were all necks and legs. They kicked and some broke their legs.

Uncle Felix Buttfield, mother's brother, had a store in Beltana. We were to take over his business, as Uncle Felix was opening a store near the Ediacara Mine, close to a pastoral station which was several hundred miles north of Port Augusta. The store in Beltana was right in the town opposite the post office. The school was up the hill from the post office. The post master was Mr. Bee. His wife was a real lady. One of their sons later came to Adelaide and for a living played his piccolo in Rundle Street and King William Street ‎[Beehive Corner]‎. He was well known as Piccolo Pete.

The school was up near the police station. It had a galvanised iron shed. One day is was 117 degrees F. There were other days like this. One the way home one day a lady called me to come and see something. Her little baby had died, and she had it in a rack wrapped in a sheet on the side of the room.

We had some great experiences up there. The cattle: we had 20,000 through one day. Uncle ‎[Monty Buttfield]‎ was a drover; and as the cattle came down, a very wild one ran up and ripped his horse's side. There were wild things altogether like that.

One night when we went to bed at night there was no rain, nothing, dry. We were awakened by a crash and another crash as the trees were washed over. The creek ‎[Warioota Creek]‎ was half a mile wide. The water came down from the mountains, and it flooded. There were two wells in the middle of the creek. They were never seen again, and the train line was washed away.

One the other side of the creek, Father had a magazine right on the banks where he put all the explosives so that no one would ever go near. Of course we were inquisitive and poked about.

Father got all his goods from the town directly the train got in, as men on the train would open the cases of fruit and vegetables and eat them, and we wouldn't get a full case.

Father was an artist. We were great chums, and we'd go out and sketch Sliding Rock. I would help him. ‎[That was when the Shepherds were in between living in Beltana and Blinman. They stayed in Aunt Eva Davies' house.]‎

On the way back to Blinman we stayed overnight on the way, sleeping by the side of the road. Next day we had to go down a very steep road. Mother had one conveyance with two wild horses. It was as much as she could do to hold them up. She held on with all of her might. The wagon was laden with all our furniture,as we had to take everything with us. One of the horses was a very wild colt. She had to have a strong hold on it. At one place we had to go down a big hill. There were three gates to go through, so Father went first to open them. Our dog, a mag mastiff, was tied on behind. Father stood at the gate and put up his hand for us to stop, but Mother couldn't. The horses were too headstrong. Our poor old dog Prince died. He was a beautiful old dog, a faithful dog.

Bullock carts were mostly use, or else people walked. Mr. Middleton, the minister, used to walk from Blinman to Beltana. He had a bad leg and walked with a limp; but he got there. He'd cut across the way the crow flies.

Father's store was in Blinman, but we lived in Blinman South which was three miles away. We walked to school in Blinman. I was sitting in school one day looking out of the window, of course. I saw Fred Williams chop another boy's finger off. He put it on the block and said, "You chop him," and he did; and there was the boy with his finger hanging. I don't know what happened after that."

Memories


Hide Details Source: Alan Gordon Shepherd

Citation Details:  17 June 1980


Hide Details Note: From nephew Alan Shepherd: "She was an old-fashioned lovely, lovely lady, tall and thin and reasonably out-going. She married against her will. ‎[This may be something of an overstatement!]‎ Married Horwood of Horwood and Bagshaw. She was very methodical; the bedroom were always cleaned on Thursday. She was very proud of Florence. Ethel had wanted to be a missionary, too."

Alan's comment about Ethel's marriage may have something to do with Ethel's attachment, when young, to her second cousin Bertram "Bert" Fidler. They were in love, but family opposition to cousins marrying prevented their marriage. Bert was the grandson of Elizabeth Shepherd Fidler, who was Henry's aunt.

Death 6 July 1976 ‎(Age 97)‎ Illoura Baptist Nursing Home, Norwood, South Australia, Australia

Burial Brighton Cemetery, North Brighton, South Australia, Australia

Last Change 27 November 2008 - 22:14:48
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Parents Family  (F11)
Henry SHEPHERD
1850 - 1930
Florence Clara BUTTFIELD
1860 - 1935
Arthur Buttfield SHEPHERD
1877 - 1949
Ethel Eliza Buttfield SHEPHERD
1879 - 1976
Florence Carey Carey SHEPHERD
1880 - 1889
Rupert Henry Eustace Rupe SHEPHERD
1881 - 1915
Clement John Marsom Clem SHEPHERD
1883 - 1956
Frank Gerald Lancelot SHEPHERD
1886 - 1957
Leonard Victor Albert Leo SHEPHERD
1887 - 1925
Lily Harriette SHEPHERD
1890 - 1982
Wilfred Cameron SHEPHERD
1893 - 1973
Edmund Payne SHEPHERD
1894 - 1972

Immediate Family  (F1686)
Edgar Stanbridge HORWOOD
1883 -
Edgar Everard Ev HORWOOD
1912 - 1970
Florence Ethel Carey HORWOOD
1915 - 1998
Murray HORWOOD
1917 - 1941
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Rupert Stanbridge HORWOOD
1922 - 1987