Minnie Margaret Sheppard

1898 - 1994  (96 years)

• Name	Minnie Margaret Sheppard
  Birth	4 Jan 1898	Willis Branch, Fayette Co., WV   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Jun 1994	Oak Hill, Fayette Co., WV   [1]
  Burial	28 Jun 1994	Pax Cemetery, Pax, Fayette Co., WV   [2]
  Person ID	I16351	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	James Floyd Sheppard,   b. 24 Apr 1862, Raleigh Co., VA d. 13 Feb 1942, Willis Branch, Fayette Co., WV (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Ida McVey,   b. Jun 1871, WV d. Between 1901 and 1903, Fayette Co., WV (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1887
  Family ID	F12003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Henry Virgil Haley,   b. 10 Sep 1861, Brush, Lee Co., VA d. 11 Sep 1934, Clear Creek, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	20 Jan 1917	Long Branch, Fayette Co., WV   [3]
  	Ceremony performed by J. Q. Souder. Henry's place of residence is listed as Mt. Hope and his occupation as foreman.
  Children	1. Goldia Helen "Goldie" Haley,   b. 18 Mar 1918, Pax, Fayette Co., WV d. 27 Sep 1998, Oak Hill, Fayette Co., WV (Age 80 years)   2. Harold V. Haley,   b. 19 May 1922, Long Branch, Fayette Co., WV d. 25 Dec 1944, Germany (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F7100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Charles Lewis Lucas, Sr.,   b. 2 Feb 1883, Saxon, Raleigh Co., WV d. 8 Feb 1967, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F13798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 20 Jan 1917 - Long Branch, Fayette Co., WV  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Beckley Post-Herald, Beckley, WV, 10 January 1973 Beckley Resident Feted At Dinner PAX (RNS) - PAX (RNS) - Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kelly of Pax were among the ones who honored her grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Lucas of Beckley, with a dinner Sunday in observance of her 75th birthday anniversary which was Jan. 5. Born at lower Willis Branch, Mrs. Lucas is the daughter of the late Jim and Ida McVey Shephard. To this union Mrs. Lucas and a brother, Grover Shephard, were born. Mrs. Lucas has two half sisters, Mrs. Gertie Maynor of Willis Branch and Mrs. Ivory Hamilton of Miami, Fla. Mrs. Lucas was married to Henry Haley. She has daughter, Mrs. Goldie Cook of Baltimore, Md.; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was married second time to C. L. Lucas and lived at Glen Daniel. He died Feb. 8, 1967. Also honoring Mrs. Lucas Sunday were her stepchildren and families, Mr. and Mrs. Acie Stewart of Pineville, Mrs. Emma Stewart of Jesse, Mrs. Lillie Dillon of Mount Tabor, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lucas and son of Beckley and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dillon and daughter, Lori, of Bradley. Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV, 26 June 1994 MRS. MINNIE HALEY LUCAS, 96, OF PAX died June 24, 1994, at Hilltop Nursing Home after a long illness. She was a former restaurant owner and a homemaker. She was a member of Calloway Heights Baptist Church, Beckley. Surviving: daughter, Goldie H. McGown of Pax; stepdaughter, Lillie Dillion of Mount Tabor; stepson, Claude Lucas of Beckley; four grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Long Branch United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bill Parker, the Rev. James Reed and the Rev. Gerald Lanham officiating. Burial will be in Pax Community Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Rose-Quesenberry Funeral Home, Beckley, and one hour prior to service at the church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S996] Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File, (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.). [S872] Obituary: The Charleston Gazette. [S1288] West Virginia. Fayette County., Fayette Co., WV Marriage Register, (Digital images. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Vital Research Records. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ : 2009.), marriage register, 5: 71, line 30, Haley-Shepard, 1917; accessed 30 Oct 2025. (Reliability: 3).