http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QZB.2ACI/3157 Message Board Post: Mrs. Alta E. Shepherd, 92, of 1402 Maple avenue, a resident of Zanesville the past 63 years and former music teacher died at 6:30 a.m.(21 Dec 1963) at the Frame Rest Home. Mrs. Shepherd was born February 18, 1871 at Virginia Ridge, a daughter of Bejamin and Elizabeth Baughman Swingle. her husband Atty. Henry Shepherd died in 1921. She served as an organist for 10 years at St. John's Lutheran Church at Stovertown and at one time was a music teacher, riding a horse from farm to farm where she taught all of the children in the family at each stop. She was a member of Central Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. William Smith of St. Louis, Mo.; a son, Henry Shepherd of Washington D. C.; a nephew, Dalton Swingle of Philo, Ohio and several nieces. The body was taken to the Bolin - Bryan Funeral Home where friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Forest avenue chapel with Rev. James Hill officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.