Brief Life History of David Leonard
When David Leonard Epps was born on 15 March 1860, in Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Epps, was 33 and his mother, Martha Lemirah “Pattie” Burgess, was 25. He had at least 2 sons and 6 daughters with Rebecca Aileen Adams. He lived in Bethel, Mahaica-Berbice, Guyana in 1935 and Kingstree, Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States in 1941. He died on 1 January 1936, in Mouzon, Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Cades, Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States.
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- David Epps in household of Robert Epps, "United States Census, 1870"
- D L Epps, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973"
- D L Epps, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1861
South Carolina is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English (h)apse, (h)aspe ‘aspen tree, white poplar’ (Old English æpse, æspe). Generally, this was a topographic name for someone who lived by an aspen tree or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example Apps in Surrey, Apse Manor on the Isle of Wight, or The Asps in Warwickshire.
English: perhaps from the Middle English personal name Eppe, a possible survival of Old English Eoppa, or its female counterpart Eoppe (Latinized in post-Conquest records as Eppa), probably from a stem eorp- ‘red’. Alternatively, Eppe may derive from Old Norse Øpi, perhaps from the stem øp- found in the verb øpa ‘to cry out, shriek’.
American shortened form of Van Epps , a surname of Dutch origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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