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This was the home of druggist John W. Sheppard, another Yankee who came
to Charlotte in the late 1800's to seek his fortune. He and his
partner, J. P. Woodall, opened Woodall and Sheppard Drug Store on the
northwest corner of the Square in 1896. Woodall and Sheppard was the
first drugstore in Charlotte to sell ice cream year around and the first
to make deliveries by bicycle.
The John W. Sheppard House was completed in 1899 soon after John had returned to his home town of Cedarville, New Jersey to marry his childhood sweetheart, Anna Stanton Mulford. John and Anna Sheppard had three sons and one daughter. Tragically, all the boys died as youngsters. Edith, the lone survivor, went on to excel as a student and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1923. Edit''s best childhood friend was Mildred Morse, who lived next door. In later years, Mildred Morse, then Mildred Morse McEwen, explained in her book, Growing Up In Fourth Ward, what it was like to be a young girl in Fourth Ward at the turn of the century. "There was a big rat in the Sheppard's wood house, later a garage. Anyway, smart-aleck Mildred wanted to show Edith that she wasn't afraid of a rat so she stuck her finger in the rat's face and said, 'Boo.'' I remember that Mrs. Sheppard brought a saucer for the blood to drip into so it wouldn't get on the floor of the back porch."
Or again: "Every summer the Sheppards would go to New Jersey. There was one upstairs room in their house called 'the plunder room' containing the trunks they took with them on the train. I can't remember why I thought it sad when the Sheppards would go to New Jersey, but I remember crying as the surrey loaded with the Sheppards left for the railroad station." They're all gone now. So many memories!
Continue east on Ninth Street one more block. Turn right on Church Street and look for the first house on your right.
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