Dora Yulea SHEPARD, 1900–1968?> (aged 67 years)
- Name
- Dora Yulea /SHEPARD/
- Given names
- Dora Yulea
- Surname
- SHEPARD
- Name
- Dede /SHEPARD/
- Given names
- Dede
- Surname
- SHEPARD
Birth
|
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
---|---|
Marriage
|
|
Birth of a brother
|
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
Birth of a sister
|
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
Birth of a brother
|
Source: Daffin, Ernie
Citation details: Information from a family story left by a family member. Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 16, 2007 |
Death
|
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
Burial
|
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007 |
father |
1874–1967
Birth: December 23, 1874 — Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, USA Death: June 25, 1967 — Gonzalez, Escambia, Florida, USA |
---|---|
mother | |
Marriage | Marriage — May 5, 1898 — |
10 months
elder brother |
|
22 months
herself |
1900–1968
Birth: December 17, 1900 — Florida, USA Death: August 21, 1968 |
22 months
younger brother |
1902–1953
Birth: September 30, 1902 — Florida, USA Death: March 24, 1953 |
22 months
younger sister |
|
4 years
younger brother |
husband | |
---|---|
herself |
1900–1968
Birth: December 17, 1900 — Florida, USA Death: August 21, 1968 |
Marriage | Marriage — — |
Birth |
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
---|---|
Name |
Source: Daffin, Ernie
Citation details: e-mail, 11 Nov 2007, 5:54 PM Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007 |
Death |
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007
Source: Shepard Family Grave Markers
Citation details: Last update: 3/31/04 Quality of data: primary evidence Date: July 18, 2007 |
Burial |
Source: Gonzalez United Church Cemetery
Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007 |
Shared note |
Source: Daffin, Ernie
Citation details: e-mail, 11 Nov 2007, 5:24 PM Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007 |
Shared note
|
She married late in life, and her husband died early. Her brother, George, also lost his wife, and she moved in with this family to help rear his children. She nver had children of her own. She went to a business college, and later worked for Bob Sikes who was a U. S. Representative or a senator, and she also worked for a Florida governor named Millard Caldwell. Right before she died she told some of her remembrances to probably a member of the family who wrote them down. That story follows: On Thursday, August 15, six days before Dede's death, we talked at length about some of the experiences of her youth. She was in a great deal of pain then and had some difficulty in speaking but she wanted me to know a few of her memories and early impressions. She said the first thing she could remember as a little girl was running up and down the hallway that went the entire depth of the house, from front to back. It was a frame house in Pensacola. She said she must have been only two or three years old. She could remember the big red globe of the pulldown lamp in the hall. "It looked so pretty." The Lord's Prayer was framed and hung in the dining room. She was so scared of worms and Uncle Clark would chase her all around the yard with a fat bloodworm on a stick while she cried and screamed. "Mother had planted a lucious peach tree and we loved those juicy peaches." She said that Uncle John had the biggest mouth of anyone. She would never forget the time he had coaxed her into letting him have a bite of her peach. She being a trusting soul, held it out to him. With a twinkle in his eye, he bit off the whole peach and left her holding the stem, horrified. Pensacola was a beautiful city. The streets were paved with four-by-four-by-eight blocks dipped in asphalt. When it rained they would sometimes buckle up, they were so close together. There were gas lamps lighting things up in the evening. The pride of the city was the street car line that went in a big circle around the town. "Mother would let Robyna and me ride the street car downtown. This was a big treat. We'd walk around the streets and return home. I remember the first time I got panicky. Mother had bought us each a pretty, flowered umbrella and we were so proud of them we took them with us into town one day. After our soda at Balcom's, we got on the street car and got half-way home before we realized we had left our umbrellas at the drugstore. In our panic, we got off of the car and started walking back. If we had thought, we could have stayed on the street car because it made the whole circuit; but we had one thought in mind--those umbrellas. It seemed like a mighty long way to us (it was one or two miles) but we found our umbrellas where we had left them and took another street car home.) One thing Dede wanted recorded was her early faith and rearing in the Methodist Church. She said she had the wonderful examples to follow in her parents, "especially mother." She related an experience she had at age 8-10 years. "On Sunday afternoons after church, I would get together with Minnie Leah Nobles and several other boys and girls and we'd all go bike riding. We all had bikes. One time, one of my tires went flat. We'd pump it up and it would go flat again. I remember I was so frustrated. We tried and tried again but the valve wouldn't come out. Finally I suggested that we all kneel and pray for God's help. We all got down together and offered a simple prayer and sure enough, the first time we pumped up the tire it held. It may have been only a coincidence, but it was a faith-buliding experience for me and it has always stayed with me." Dede could remember getting ready to move, ..."mother packing boxes." When she was about thirteen, the family moved to Hegardville, Georgia, and back again a year later to Century, near Pensacola. "I can remember my first boy friend when I was eight or nine. His name was Albert Olson. He was my best boy friend and how I liked him. He would "tow" me on his bike. I would sit on his handle bars." Later in Century and in high school, she knew some other Alberts. Albert seemed to be her boy friend name. "Mother kept us a year on 9th Avenue, in a house between Aunt Carrie's (Minnie"s mother) and the church. There John and Fay Smith and I stayed a year with Aunt Vic Shepard while we were in high school. She kept house for us. I had failed math in the fifth grade some years before and had to take the whole year over. Then later I skipped a grade and John stayed back a year for work in the saw mill, so we were together. John was the leader among us. My special boy friend then was Hugh McEwen. Often, Minnie and her flame and we would go on jaunts together and have some good times. At night we'd meet in the park. Aunt Vic would go with us and we'd skate and have the best time. The long lanes were criss-crossed under the trees." Dede became too weak to continue talking about her life that day, and she never regained her strength, but I was so happy she shared these few memories. August 21, 1968
Source: Daffin, Ernie
Citation details: e-mail, 11 Nov 2007, 5:24 PM Quality of data: primary evidence Date: November 11, 2007 |
---|