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Gilbert Shepard
From family records, Gilbert Ferdinand Shepard taught school in a one-room school house in Hodgeman County about 14 miles west and south of Jetmore after arriving by horseback shorly before 1885. Martha Ann Kifer came in 1889 to teach school in one room of a sod house in Horse Thief Canyon. They married. Several years later, they both taught school in Hodgeman County. They went to Wellington, Kansas for him to teach one year. He continued to teach in schools in Ford and Hodgeman counties. He taught in the Fort Dodge School. Their daughter Lona Stella Shepard taught school, affter graduation, southeast of Spearville. Zona Velma Shepard was encouraged by her teacher Clifford Meairs at Fairview school to attend high school in Dodge City in the fall of 1911. This school was located souteast along what in now Haines Lake Road. Fairview was one of three schools in District #5. Zona Velma Elder taught one year near Flower and then two years in her home school of Fairview.
