Sylvia Sheppard Bryant's Story --Part two: A Father Did The Best He Could.
If you missed part one of this series, please take a look at the following link: 52 Ancestors 2015 Edition: #26 Sylvia Sheppard Bryant's Story --Part one. Sylvia Sheppard was just a young girl when her mother’s suicide shattered her world in 1912. A little girl needs a mother or at least a mother figure who can guide her through the transition to womanhood. Moses Sheppard, her father, was still alive. Would he be able to step up and guide his daughter past this tragedy? Based on clues left in different records, I can only theorize what actually happened between father and daughter. Source Information Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Portsmouth Jefferson Ward, Portsmouth (Independent City), Virginia; Roll: T625_1905; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 171; Image: 516 First, I went to ...