Shep's Place Family Tree

1900: Both parents had died, and the two women, "Liddy J." and Rebecca were farming and keeping house on the family farm. They had the assistance of Elmer J. Martin, a farm laborer, who boarded with them. He was fifteen and probably very strong.

1910: Liddie and Rebecca, now in their late 50s, had the help of Walter Barry, 15 yrs, who had been born in Pennsylvania.