MELISSA "LESSIE" CONLEY SHIFFLETT 1879-1960

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Jun. 29, 1960
Mrs. Zeb Shifflett, 81, died yesterday at the home of her son, Ellis Shifflett, at Free Union. The former Lessie Conley, she was born in Greene County, the daughter of the late Zack and Emma Conley. Her husband is deceased. Besides Ellis Shifflett, she is survived by two other sons, Bryant Shifflett of Dyke, and Ernest Shifflett of Alexandria; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Morris of Dyke, and Mrs. Nettie Roberts of Earlysville; one half-brother; Henry Crawford two sisters Bertha C. Shifflett and Lucy C. Frazier; 24 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by half-sister Louisa C. Collier and brother  Zachariah Conley, Jr. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Evergreen Church of the Brethren at Dyke, with burial in the church cemetery.