This is one screwed up obit for our Great Grandma Shepherd but here goes my take on the Dothan bunch. Of course, two of MARTHA EMMA PEACOCK SHEPHERD's (1857-1933) daughters lived in Dothan: my Grandma Pauline (Mrs. W.Y. Register) and Miz Lula ( Mrs. J.A. Peterman~ Miz Lula was Mr. Peterman's second wife. His first wife died in 1917. His big house was right in front of First Baptist on the SE corner of Alice and W. Main. That house was built in 1908. Mr. Peterman had had a store in downtown Dothan since before 1892. Miz Lula turned the house into a boarding house and when the Depression hit, that is where Pauline's family [Will Young, Earl, Paul & Page} moved.)

Great Grandma Shepherd's surviving husband, George Milton Shepherd (1859-1951) is not mentioned in the obit and Great Grandma's name was not "Mrs. G.W. Shepard". Her name was Mrs. G.M. Shepherd. Three of Great Grandma's sisters who lived in Dothan are mentioned in the obit. We remember Aunt Shug and her old house out on the Montgomery Highway. They messed her name up in the obit. Her name was not "Mrs. J.S. Gwaltney". It was Mrs. J. L. Gwaltney (Eyolean Rebecca Peacock Gwaltney [1868-1964] ). Great Grandma Shepherd also had two other sisters living in Dothan: Mrs. A.E. Cumbie (1879-1962) and Mrs. J.C. Hardy. A.E. Cumbie had a general repair business at 206 East Main. He sold out to his brother in 1920 and moved his business over to S. St. Andrews where he specialized in making keys, picking locks and cracking safes. J.C. Hardy(1863-1947) had a farm outside of town (probably on Beulah Creek) and lived at 701 Headland Avenue. He sold cows and lumber through the want-ads in the Eagle and did a wide variety of business in Dothan. His obituary states that he was a life-long Dothan resident so his family was living there before the Civil War. Great Grandma Shepherd also had a brother, J.L. Peacock (Johnson Lee Peacock [1866-1940] ) who lived most of his life in Dothan.