Six years later Josephine died due to unknown circumstances. Sometime later, the pair had their first daughter Maggie Greene, whose birth enabled Hershel to finally give up his alcoholism habit. Additionally, he pawned his pocket watch in order to pay off his drinking debt, though Josephine was able to repurchase his watch which she held onto until he had proven to be able to sober up. He would return drunk from the local barn and was forced to sleep on the downstairs couch by Josephine. Within the first few years of their marriage however, Hershel began to descend into alcoholism much like his father. He later met Josephine Greene where the two then became married. In his later years, Hershel became a veterinarian due to his love for animals and decided to return to his family farm. Hershel never let go of the grudge he held against his father and thus avoided all contact with him which resulted in him not being present at his deathbed. Hershel experienced a difficult childhood and thus had a negative relationship with his alcoholic and abusive father where eventually by the age of fifteen he moved out. As a young child, he was gifted a pocket watch originally owned by his father that had been passed down to him through generations. Hershel grew up on a farm that had been possessed by his family for over 160 years. As a result, he finally accepted that his wife was gone, but became so despondent that he took up drinking once again briefly.Īs of Seasons 3 and 4, Hershel is shown to be a skilled diplomat, often talking down the other survivors from taking disastrous actions or talking them into taking the right ones, though these talks do not work as desired with everyone. After seeing Shane Walsh shoot Louise Bush multiple times in the chest and Louise keep coming, Hershel realized his mistake. Hershel's beliefs come mainly from the fact that he was living a sheltered life on his farm and most of what he knew about walkers came from watching the chaos of the Apocalypse on TV. Hershel refuses to hear otherwise and sees the dangerous people as those who go around killing the walkers, believing it to be murder. At one point, Hershel compares a walker's crazed state to a schizophrenic. When Rick first encounters Hershel, Hershel holds a belief that the walkers are still living people who are sick and as such, he keeps the ones he can find in the barn on his farm until a cure can be found for them. Hershel relapsed following the barn massacre, but once again gave up drinking immediately afterwards, telling Dave and Tony this during the confrontation in the bar. After giving up drinking on the day of Maggie's birth, Hershel went so far as to ban all alcohol from his house to avoid temptation. Hershel is a former alcoholic who spent a lot of time at the Carriage Bar before the birth of his daughter Maggie. Protecting is one of the few times he will go against even his own moral code and do what needed to be done. He also cares deeply for his family and protecting them (particularly his daughters Maggie and Beth). Perhaps stemming from his religious beliefs, he believes strongly in what he considers to be right and is known to be uncompromising in defense of his morals. Hershel is the quintessential stubborn farmer.
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