John Gilmore Peppard (1925)

JONES, PEPPARD, SUMMERS

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:53

The Tonkawa News
Tonkawa, Oklahoma
Thursday, August 27, 1925

John Gilmore Peppard was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March 10, 1845. Here he spent his boyhood days.

In 1861, heeding the call for soldiers, he enlisted in the Civil War, as a teamster. Being only seventeen years of age and at the protest of his father he was discharged from the army. He again enlisted in 1863 in the Company F. No 176 Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war.

He was married to Miss Prescilla Summers, March 30, 1873. To this union six children were born. Three passed away in infancy. Mrs. Mable Muir died in 1912. His wife died in Tonkawa, Oklahoma in 1907.

He is survived by two children, Mrs. J.A. Jones of Tonkawa, Okla., and Harry E. Peppard of Volga, S. Dakota, eight grand-daughters and a number of distant relatives.

In 1874 he moved to the West to Oskaloosa, Kansas, for the first time. Here, he lived for on year then returned to Ohio. Two years later he returned to the West, to Winterset, Iowa, where he and his family lived until 1899 at which time they moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma. In 1900 he moved to Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and resided here until his death August 22, 1925.

Funeral services were held at the home of Dr. J.A. Jones at 10 o'clock Wednesday. C.E. McCafferty in charge. Rev. W. A. R. Lovell of Carmen, Okla., formerly pastor of the Christian church here, officiated.

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