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Obituary:

. Mary Frances was a Latin Teacher whose poetry was published in the Poetry Cuorsity of Virginia's Anthology in 1985. She married Meade Flinn of Alberta. VA on Aug 1, 1934. Her obituary notice in the Richmond paper. May 18, 1987, gives this account of her life:
"A funeral for Mrs. Mary Frances Shepard Flinn, a retired teacher of Latin & English in the Brunswick County schools was held today at Trinity-St. Mark's Episcopal Church here. (Alberta, VA). Burial was in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Hertford, N.C.
"Mrs. Flinn, whose career spanned 27 years, died Saturday in a Richmond hospital. She was 78.
"She was known for translating poems from Latin & for original poems about the Perquaman River area of the Outer Banks of North Carolina near Albemarle Sound.
" A native of Hertford, N.C. Mrs. Flinn graduated in 1930 from what is now Longwood College. She was a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia, the Alberta Woman's Club & the Hicksford Chapter of the American Revolution & a charter member of the Alberta Book Club.
"Survivors include her husband Meade Flinn, 2 sons, Lyman Meade Flinn & Robert Strudevant Flinn of Alberta."

Ellen married Lyman SHEPARD in c 1908 in Hertford, North Carolina. Lyman (son of Lyman Willson SHEPARD and Mary Ball ELLZEY) was born in 1889 in Westwood Grove, Raleigh Co., Virginia; died in 1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Frances Shepard SHEPARD was born in 1909 in Hertford, North Carolina; died on 16 May 1987 in Alberta, Virginia.