[2] Fambro taught at Alabama State Agricultural and Mechanical College in the early 1890s, before she married.

She created a library at the Capitol Hill School, which she funded with a benefit program of performances by students and others.

After that success, she continued to stage annual shows in Little Rock, to support the city's Black schools.

[2] Shepperson also led school choirs, and directed her students in Shakespeare plays.

Her second husband was railway postal clerk Charles B. Shepperson; they married in 1904,[10] and he died by drowning in 1922.