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Obituary For Oliver Shepherd Shipman, The Macon Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, Thursday 7 April 1955, p. 19A:

Oliver Shepherd Shipman, retired contractor of 1143 Appleton Avenue, died in a local hospital at 2:30 p. m. yesterday after a long illness.
Mr. Shipman was born at Clio, Ala., and had lived in Macon 51 years. He was a member of the Tattnall Square Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Anne Sue Dickerson, Macon; four sons, Herbert W., Horace E., Lamar R. Shipman of Macon and Capt. Nolan Shipman of Singapore [my father]; three daughters, Mrs. Ben Brantley, Warner Robins, Mrs. Robert Hendrix and Mrs. George Dunham of Macon; nine grandchildren; a brother, A.A. Shipman, Jacksonville, Fla., and two sisters, Mrs. Bob Humphrey and Mrs. Joe Vandivere, Savannah.
Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Hart's Mortuary at 3:00 p.m. Friday and burial will be in Riverside Cemetery."

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Saturday, November 09, 2002

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Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison, Kansas, 10 April 1950

AP Story

Two of Quads Born In Alabama Survive

Eufaula, Al, April 10 - Two of the Singelton quadruplets the first and last born, survive. Their two sisters died yesterday.

Anna and Pearl apparently are in good condition doctors said last night, and have an excellent chance.

The mother, Mrs.. Minnie O'Neal Singleton, 33, was reported in good condition too. She was moved to the hospital Saturday night after suffering a chill.

The babies were delivered in less than an hour Saturday morning at the Singleton house, a small farm house about 18 miles from nearby Clayton, Ala. and about 140 miles southeast of Birmingham.

Dr. R. O. Norton, who delivered the quads, said he was almost as surprised as the Singletons, although he expected twins at least.

After their birth, all of the babies were place in incubators. Eva and Frances, the second and third born, lived only one day.

Mrs.. Singleton and her husband, Homer, 33, already have had six children, including a pair of four-year-old twins.

STOKES, Clifford

The Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston, West Virginia, May 20, 1944

Wheeling Real Estate Man Dies In Florida

Hollywood, (AP) Col. Clifford Stokes, 67, who entered the real estate filed in 1917 in Wheeling, W. VA, and founded the towns of Benwood and McMechen, W.VA, died here after a short illness.

Stokes served as a colonel in the quartermaster troops during WWI and returned to real estate to develop subdivisions in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Wisconsin. He was born in Eufaula, Ala.