Shep's Place Family Tree

In 1903, George Goldsack, Mary Ferguson's brother-in-law noted that travelling by train to Melbourne, he "spent a pleasant ten or twelve minutes at Bordertown station" with the Ferguson family, Mr and Mrs Virgo and "Mrs Hay who had prepared some biscuits and a nice iced cake for our journey." Emma's interests were largely centred on her home, but as her family grew up, she helped her husband with the running of the store. She was an active member of the Congregational Church. Her husband was involved in the local community, as vice president of the Bordertown Institute, a member of the Tatiara Pastoral and Agricultural Society, Deputy Ruler of the Rechabite Lodge and secretary to the Bordertown Congregational Church. Albert Virgo died on 9.6.1944. Emma died on 6.10.1951, both buried in Bordertown.