Shep's Place Family Tree

By 1920 George was a postal clerk with the railway. He and Alice were renting a home in Columbus. Rachel, 25, was a "musician" who worked in a music store. Martha Louise, 23, was a teacher in the public school system. By now the family was complete with Nellie, 17, Dorothy, 14, John W. eight, and William, three years and eleven months.

In 1930 George, 59, a mail clerk on the steam railroad, and Alice 56, had been married for 19 years. They owned their home, which was worth $7,500. Only the two boys, John, 18, and Bill, 13, were still at home.

George's father, Mathew, was in Maysville, Kentucky for a while. George was 14 yrs old when they returned to Hartford. Perhaps it was then that Major asked Mathew to look after his farm.