Shep's Place Family Tree

1900: Maz 56 and wife Virginia 54 had been married for 36 years. Virginia had had fourteen children of whom seven were living. Four of the children were living at home: Dean ‎(or Doan)‎ 20, Laura ‎[should be Lowery]‎ 20 ‎(twins)‎, Rachael 15 and Helen 13. Living next door to them were son Oscar Chapman with his wife Georgia and daughter Irene.

Maz was a faithful worker in the Baptist church, as was his wife. After the 1913 Ohio River flood, she was crippled with rheumatism, but she sat on her porch and solicited funds to repair the church. She died in 1915, shortly after celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Maz died in 1925 from burns caused by an oil can explosion.