Thomas Epperson

EPPERSON

Posted By: Sally J Haverly (email)
Date: 11/17/2006 at 20:51:49

Ames Intelligencer, Thursday April 24, 1913
Feb 4, 1853 - Apr 22, 1913
Sudden Death of Thomas Epperson. Passes away yesterday noon while making garden. Thomas Epperson who has lived in this community for the last nineteen years, was stricken with heart trouble yesterday about 12:30 and dropped dead while plowing his garden. Mr and Mrs Epperson have been living in the property on north Burnett Avenue formerly occupied by Byron Seymour, and it was there that his death occurred. He had not been feeling as well as usual for the last two weeks, but seemed all right when Mrs Epperson talked with him just a few moments before his death. Mrs Epperson had a short conversation with him about ten minutes before his death. She returned to the house with no though of the coming shock, and when she chanced to look out a little later he was lying on the ground. Help was summoned but he was beyond relief and death had evidently been instantaneous. Mr Epperson was born sixty years ago near Boonesboro, Kentucky. He was the youngest of a large family, all of whom preceded him in death. He came to Story County nineteen years ago, and had made his home in and around Ames and Gilbert since, with the exception of the last year, during which he lived in Illinois. A wife and five children survive the deceased, one son having died in infancy. The children are Miss Bertha Epperson who is teaching at Albia, Mrs John Haverly of Ames, Miss Fannie Epperson of Ames, Mrs Fae Worley of Gilbert and Miss Beulah Epperson who is taking the nurses training in Des Moines. Funeral services will be held in the Christian church Thursday afternoon at two o'clock with Rev Harris in charge.