No source noted, penciled date of January 24, 1919, from an unidentified scrapbook of clippings titled COLLECTION OF LOCAL MONROE COUNTY OBITS donated to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. 3 DAYS SICK; THEN DEATH Miss Hilda Shepherd Victim of Epidemic Ill only three days, Miss Hilda Shepherd, the efficient bookkeeper for the Henry & Kerr business on East 5th died of influenza last night at the home of Fred Buchanan where she roomed. The mother who was at the home in Sanburn reached the bedside of the dying girl yesterday, but Rev. Ernest Shepherd, the father, was attending the Methodist centenary conference at Columbus, Ohio., and could not be located in time, so he did not arrive until this morning after the death had occurred. Miss Shepherd had been at work until Tuesday when she went to her room quite ill, and her condition grew suddenly alarming-so much so that all efforts were of no avail. Miss Hilda had been complaining for several days before she would give up her work. Miss Shepherd was aged 20, a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Shepherd, and was a most loveable girl, always conscientious and efficient in her work. In that Rev. Shepherd is a Methodist minister, the family had lived at Harrodsburg and other places in this vicinity and their present home is Sanburn. Another daughter, Miss Ardus, is bookkeeper for the Field Glove and Mitten Company, and there is one brother. Because of her youth, and in that Miss Hilda was always a favorite among her associates, the death is especially pathetic. She was a lifelong Methodist and always interested in church work. The funeral of Miss Shepherd is Sunday at two o'clock from the Fairview Church and burial at Rose Hill, the Revs. Ragle and Morgan in charge. The pallbearers are: John Kerr, I. N. Greeman (sic), Fred Howe, Ernest Taylor, J. H. Ryors, Garvin Judy. Flowers girls: Mary Rogers, Marjorie and Ruth and Mildred Buchanan.