September is around the corner!

Hello to all my Brooks/Shepherd/Terrell relatives!

Whether you comment or not is not important! I really just want this to be a place to remember the good times we have all had together in this large, ever growing family. So much has happened in all of our lives and keeping up is very difficult. I really can only post about the things I have heard, experienced or see on another relative's blog/facebook/etc.

Please enjoy this little photo update of my dear departed Aunt Peggy Brooks Moore (William) and some animals who have walked in and out of her life. Also I have a collage of my parents, Bill and Jeanne Diffee. I am so fortunate to still have my Mom, Jeanne very much in my life. She is in pretty good health, can get around very well with only the use of a cane - stands upright, straighter than me!

Many thanks to my Aunt Katherine Brooks Halfpenny for her many hours of searching for old pics in her own records and uploading them to me.

Please do let me know if you have some pictures or stories to tell about your experiences as a member of this large family of great people!

Denise

May Welcome! Hello relatives!

Hello from the editor of the Terrell Shepherd Brooks and Sharpe family blog.

Let me remind you if you are visiting for the first time that this is a personal family blog for all of us to share our family facts, history and photos. I welcome all of you to contact me to add information about your history or how to add photos to the blog. You can also email pics to me as attachments and I will upload them to the blog.

It is important for you to let me know when you visit - just leave a short comment so that I know you are out there or following the blog. My Aunt Kat, Catherine Brooks Halfpenny is a huge contributor of photos from her albums and files. I welcome all of you to contribute and it will make the blog so much more vibrant.

Be sure to go through all the tabs - there are separate ones at the top to choose from and all of them lead to something interesting.

Share your Christmas stories, family get togethers, etc. with me and I will post them in the story, family history section.

Memory Lane

Peggy and Ronnie

Peggy Brooks Moore left our world to be with her maker in the September of her years, 2015. Her beloved brother Ronnie Brooks also left our world in May of 2015. Gone too soon but both are in heaven with their beloved parents and siblings for sure. Here are a few pictures of them from my records - thanks to other family members (Kathy Brooks Halfpenny) and my Mom, Jeanne Brooks Diffee's pictures. We can't believe they are gone - and so suddenly for my dear Aunt Peggy. Forever in our hearts...



Peggy is in the middle, between Jeanne on the left and Catherine on the right. Catherine is the youngest of the Brooks clan.



Ron and his lovely wife, Linda and the bottom picture is of course, Peggy - that beautiful smile, in her kitchen on Hyde Street, Burlington.



Ron and his son, Joey Brooks

Ron and Linda's wedding - photo taken at Peggy's home and Peggy is on Ron's left with Catherine on the end. Beside Linda is my Mom, Jeanne - the oldest sister.

Ron with his niece, Debbie Brooks Foote and her two daughters, Holley (Ron's right) and Casey (Debbie's left)

Peggy and June Brooks Flynn's son, Erickson Flynn

Christmas at 565 Parkview Drive, the Diffee's - Ron, Granny Belva Brooks, Jeanne and Peggy

A Visit With Aunt Ann Shepherd

On February 10, 2015 Jeanne Brooks Diffee visited her Aunt Ann Shepherd at Ann's home in Burlington, NC. They had a great time talking for about an hour. Denise and Scott, Jeanne's children brought her for the visit from Greenville, NC. These are a few pics of Jeanne and Ann on that very special day! Jeanne is 83 and Ann is 97 years YOUNG!

Peggy Brooks Moore

***An update - long overdue on Peggy - she is at home, recovering still but very happy and comfortable. I visited with her last week and she kept me in stitches. My Mom, Jeanne and my brother, Scott also were with me as we visited family in Burlington.****

Peggy Brooks Moore, daughter of Garland and Belva Brooks, sister of (surviving) Jeanne, Katherine, Ronnie, wife of William Moore, and mother of Mark Bright.

What a darling of the family - she needs our prayers right now. She is in Alamance Regional Hospital undergoing tests. Send a card her way or a visit if you can. She is a very special person in the Brooks family and we wish her all the best in her recovery!

Important link to Civil War heroes

Findagrave.com is a fantastic link to our ancestor's graves and RJ Shepherd's Civil War Shepherd's memorial site on FindAGrave.com is definitely worth a visit.

He has extensively researched and documented with pictures as well as written material as many Shepherd war veterans as possible and done a fantastic job of it. Many of these are our direct ancestors. You may have to join Findagrave.com to look - I am a member with many links to our ancestors. My name is DiffeeDenise on the site.


Joining the site is very easy and I hope you all will find it interesting and helpful.