Mary Frances Shepard
1909 - 1987 (78 years)-
Name Mary Frances Shepard Birth 1909 Hertford County, North Carolina, USA 
Gender Female Death 16 May 1987 Alberta, Virginia, USA Person ID I15207 Clan Montgomery Society | Alexander Montgomery and Sarah Lockwood, Montgomery of Beaulieu Last Modified 2 Jul 2026
Father Lyman Shepard, b. 1889, Westwood Grove, Raleigh, Virginia d. 1952 (Age 63 years) Relationship natural Mother Ellen Beaty Thurkle, b. 1879, London, England d. 1958, Alberta, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1908 Hertford County, North Carolina, USA Family ID F4967 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Meade Flinn, b. 1892, Alberta, Virginia, USA Marriage 1 Aug 1934 Alberta, Virginia, USA Children 1. Living 2. Living Family ID F4962 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jul 2026
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Birth - 1909 - Hertford County, North Carolina, USA 
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Notes - Mary Frances was a Latin Teacher whose poetry was published in the Poetry Cosity 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 and English in the Brunswick County schools was held today at Trintiy=St. Mark's Episcopal Church here. (Alberta,VA). Burial was in Holdy Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetary in Hertford, N.C.
"Mrs. Flinn, whose career spanned 27 years, died Saturday in a Rcihmond hospital. She was 78.
"She was known for translating poems from Latin and for original poems about the Perquaman River area of the Outer Banks of North Carolina ner Albemarle Sound.
" A native of Hertford, N.C. Mrs. Flinn granduated in 1930 from what is now Longwood College. She was a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia, the Alberta Woman's Club and the Hicksford Chapter of the American Revolution and a charter member of the Alberta Book Club.
"Survivors include her husband Meade Flinn, tow sons, Lyman Meade Flinn and Robert Strudevant Flinn of Alberta."
- Mary Frances was a Latin Teacher whose poetry was published in the Poetry Cosity 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:
