Joseph A.Epps,  May 15, 1951
Contributed by Connie Epps Bond
 (Posted with permission)  
 
 
The Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia
Wednesday, May 16, 1951
 
EPPS, Joseph A.
 
Rites for J. A.
Epps Held Today
 
Services for Joseph A. Epps, Comer, were conducted this afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Meadow Baptist Church with Rev. J.C. West and Rev. William Crow
officiating.
 
Interment followed in Meadow Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
 
Pall-bearers were Willie D. Barnett, Hollis Carrinton, Tom Sorrow, Redford
Lord, Billie Seagraves and Tal Compton.  An honorary escort included Hoke
Smith, Weldon Pos, J.M. Walls, Dalton Carrington, G. B. Scarbrough and Neal
Barnett.
 
Mr. Epps, 88, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Mae Dillard Epps, Comer; nine
daughters, Mrs. W. O. Wilks, Mrs. Tommy Thompson, both of Athens, Mrs. Claudie
Parks, Atlanta, Mrs. J. M. Clodfelter, Greenville, S.C., Mrs. J. M. Edwards,
Hull, and Mrs. T. J. Fields, Mrs. G. E. Gunnells, Mrs. F. R. Clodfelter and
Mrs. D. C. Carithers, all of Comer; three sons, D. N. Epps, Comer, j. W. Epps,
and J. D. Epps, both of Danielsville; sister, Mrs. Tom Gillespie, Blairsville,
GA.; brother, W. P. Epps, Nicholson, forty-five grandchildren, forty great-
grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
 
Mr. Epps was a native of Oglethorpe County and had been a resident of Comer
for thirty years. He had served as a Deacon in Meadow Baptist Church for that
length of time.  Death came Tuesday morning at 1:45 o’clock at his home in
Comer after an illness of six months.
 
Additional Comments:
age 88 death 1951 born abt 1863

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