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John Jefferson Epperson November 23 1823 - unknown
Adair County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 1, Kentucky:  A History of the State, by Battle - Perrin - Kniffin, 3rd edition 1886
JOHN JEFFERSON EPPERSON, a son of William Epperson was born November 23,
1823. William Epperson, a native of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.,
was born about 1772. He was a house carpenter and a fine mechanic, also a
millwright. He was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Francis
Montgomery, who was a wealthy man and a slave owner in Virginia, and after
he came to Kentucky, owned 2,000 acres of land in Adair County and many
slaves. He was the father of three daughters and five sons, all of whom
were in fine financial circumstances. In 1804 William Epperson came with
his father-in-law to Adair County, Ky., and became the owner of 1,000 acres
of land. He built a mill on Russell Creek in 1819 - to grind wheat and corn
- which mill is still standing and being run regularly. He built a saw-mill
also on Russell Creek in 1834. Although he owned a large body of land, he
turned his entire attention to milling, having his farm cultivated by his
sons and his slaves. His estate at his death, August 27, 1852, was worth
$18,000, and his religious faith was first with the Baptist Church,
afterward with the Christian Church. John Epperson, grandfather of John J
Epperson, was also a Virginian, whose remains lie buried in Lincoln County,
Ky., with those of his wife. His wife, whose death occurred February 24,
1842, in the sixty-second year of her age, was also first a Baptist and
afterward a member of the Christian Church.  The Epperson family are of
English origin. John J. Epperson, a native of Adair County, worked for his
father until nineteen years of age. December 22, 1842, he married Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hurt) Morris, the former a native
of New Jersey, the latter of Virginia. He received a tract of 130 acres
from his father, only a part of which was cleared, and on which there were
no buildings. He now has 246 acres in the home farm, and owns 200 acres in
two other tracts. His farm of 246 acres is a part of the limestone belt of
the country, a very fertile tract, and is situated on Russell Creek. To Mr.
and Mrs. Epperson have been born seven children: Patrick Henry, Mary
Priscilla, wife of W. H. Ryan; Charles Francis, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah
Elizabeth, wife of Junius B. Montgomery; Virgil McKnight and Albert.
Charles Francis Eperson was married to Miss Josephine Rowe, and they are
the parents of two sons; Thomas J. Epperson is married to Miss Ann Mariah
Rice,  and they are the parents of two daughters; Mary P. Bryan lives in
Prairie City, Iowa; the mother of two sons and a daughter - her oldest son
is now dead; Sarah E. Montgomery lives in Adair County, the mother of one
son; Patrick Henry Epperson enlisted in Company A, Third Kentucky Infantry,
Federal service, in 1861, and after participating in one skirmish, took the
measles at Lexington which so seriously injured his health that he was
dismissed from the service in June, 1862, and received an honorable
discharge. Although he had been a remarkably stout and robust young man
before he entered the service, after he returned home, his health declined
so rapidly, that his death occurred August 31, 1862, after an illness of
six weeks, of consumption, the result of measles. He was born March 27,
1844. J. J. Epperson has been, since the war, Democratic in politics, but
before that event was a Whig.


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