APPLEBY-EPPS CEMETERY (#22)  o

T25N R5E SEC 30

Map #6

(location approximate)

 

 

While there is apparently nothing here to be found here these days, tradition indicates that a cemetery was located in this section, and the following records seem to support this fact. This area is known to have been the home of  Martin and Earmel (APPLEBY) EPPS. Earmel was a daughter of Robert APPLEBY, who had settled in this area by 1820. He eventually owned about 1000 acres. These early records were kept in Wayne County, as Butler County had not yet been formed. Wayne County records have been burned, and it is difficult to piece together all of  the activities of these families. It is believed that the land that Martin and Earmel EPPS settled on may have been a gift or inheritance to Earmel from her father, Robert APPLEBY. The APPLEBY, EPPS, and KITTRELL families were related through marriages, and they were all settled in this region between and around the Cane Creek and Ten Mile Creek.

 

My mother-in-law was an APPLEBY. I have personally done research on these families and over the years have been the recipient of additional information from others who have also researched them. Many years ago older family members took me out to this region where the APPLEBY and EPPS families lived and pointed out to me where the homes had been and shared with me some of the history and background that had been passed on to them. I still have in my possession the letters and notes of interviews that I had with these local residents, as well as an accumulation of correspondence with other descendants who have shared information and family records, as well as the results of their own personal research.

 

According to the EPPS records that I have: Martin EPPS owned all or a part of what was later known as the TUBBS place on Ten Mile Creek. On 2 July 1859 he made a gift deed to Solomon Kittrell, his brother-in-law, of a tract of land  28 by 56 rods  (approx. 10 acres) as a trustee for a church and a cemetery. This tract was in the southeast 1/4 of  the northwest 1/4 of  Twp 25 Range 5 Sec 30. It is said  that a small church was built and later moved. But there is a small burial ground with a few stones. Most stones have been moved off and the ground plowed over and cultivated. There was another cemetery near by where slaves were buried. The EPPS that died in Missouri, Daniel, Nancy, Earmel, (Martin EPPS’ first wife), and probably William C. EPPS, were buried here. This property was Martin EPPS home place.

 

"The old chimney in the photograph [accompanying this letter] is located  on the original homesite of Martin EPPS and his wife Ermel APPLEBY EPPS. It is believed that their children were born here. To the right of the chimney a spring of cool water comes out of the hill and flows away to the creek. The place is on Ten Mile Creek in Epps Township,  Butler County Missouri. In the late 1800's the original house burned or was removed and replaced with a two-story frame house. The chimney was extended with an opening for a stove pipe on 2nd floor. I first saw this house in 1901 - the place then was owned by Mr. TUBBS. About a city block from this chimney is a small cemetery (family and neighborhood) which probably was started with the burial of Martin's wife, Earmel. About 25 persons were buried there including a few negro slaves.”

 

 

Research by Betty Hanks

 

 

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