EPPERSON, Charles L.

EPPERSON, HAYNIE, DEAN, KROON, MORROW, DELASHMUTT, MOGAN, CLARK, WALLING, HUNTER, HARRINGTON

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 5/20/2006 at 10:08:39

Mills County Tribune
May 17, 1910

Last week the Tribune recorded the death of Mrs. Charles L. Epperson, one of the early day pioneers of Mills County, at her home southwest of Glenwood. This week we are called upon to chronical the death of Mr. Epperson, which followed within six days of that of his wife. The wife died at 5:40 Sunday evening, May 8, 1910, and the husband passed away on the following Saturday morning at 6:20. Pneumonia was the cause of death in each instance.

The funeral services were held on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock from the home, and the remains were conveyed to the Glenwood cemetery and laid beside those of the wife. The same minister presided at each funeral. This was Elder J. F. Mintun of Des Moines.

The same pall bearers---old time neighbors and friends of the family---acted at each funeral. Those were Paul Haynie, Harvey Dean, Charles Kroon, Howard Morrow, W. E. DeLashmutt and W. H. Morgan.

The music was rendered by the same singers at each funeral---Mrs. S. S. Clark, Mrs. Ella Walling, Miss Lillie Clark and George Clark.

Mr. Epperson had resided in Mills County almost continuously for 58 years. He was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, July 30, 1835, and at the time of his death was past 74 years of age. He moved with his father Elias Epperson to Linn Grove, Cedar County, Iowa, in 1837. From there the family moved to Tipton in 1849, thence to Council Bluffs, in 1850. His father died in 1852, and he moved with his mother in 1851 to Mills County, locating on a farm four miles north of Glenwood.

In 1864 Mr. ad Mrs. Epperson crossed the plains by team to visit relatives in the west, and were gone about a year. With this exception, they were residents of Mills County for more than a half century.

He was married to Ophelia A. Harrington Aug. 16, 1860, and to them five children were born, one dying in infancy.

Mr. Epperson was respected for his honesty and ingegrity, and his life was a simple, unassuming one. He and his companion had both been faithful members of some years of the Latter Day Saints church. The four surviving children are David Elias Epperson, Charles Guy Epperson, and Mrs. Annie Effie Hunter, all of Mills County, and Jonathan Roy Epperson of Des Moines. He is also survived by an older brother, Sidney Epperson of Midway, Utah.

The children desire to return thanks to neighbors and friends for their many acts of kindness in this their double affliction.