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Note: Missouri Marriages, 1851-1900 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4474&enc=1> about MARY JANE STONE Name: GEORGE --- Spouse: MARY JANE STONE Marriage Date: 28 May 1874 County: Johnson State: MO 1910 United States Federal Census April 18, 1810 Name: Salathiel Stone Age in 1910: 92 Estimated birth year: abt 1818 Birthplace: North Carolina Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: North Carolina Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina Home in 1910: Post Oak, Johnson, Missouri Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Salathiel Stone 92, married 72 yrs., farmer Mary J Eppright 69, widow, 2 children, 2 living 1920 United States Federal Census January 30, 1920 Name: Charles Eppright Home in 1920: Centerview, Johnson, Missouri Age: 43 years Estimated birth year: abt 1877 Birthplace: Missouri Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Purl Father's Birth Place: Pennsylvania Mother's name: Mary Janes Mother's Birth Place: Missouri Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 603 Household Members: Name Age Charles Eppright 43 Purl Eppright 40 George M Eppright 19 Edgar C Eppright 17 S Porter Eppright 11 Mary Janes Eppright 78, widow, MO, NC, NC Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 � 1956 Mary Jane Eppright July 31, 1925 Johnson 21173
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Note: (Research):Database: taggart101 Individual: I384 Tammy Setterquist 2004-11-10 10:08:51 Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Mary Jane (Stone) Eppright, Johnson County, Missouri, Centerview Township From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918. Mrs. Mary Jane (Stone) Eppright, one of Johnson county's noblest pioneer women, widow of George Eppright, a late prosperous and influential farmer and stockman of Johnson county, was born in Post Oak township, daughter of Salathiel Stone, who settled on a farm in that section of Johnson county in 1839. In 1874, George Eppright and Mary Jane Stone were united in marriage. George Eppright was a son of Jacob and Catherine Eppright, the former of German descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Eppright were born two sons: Charles S., who was born in 1876 and with whom Mrs. Mary Jane Eppright now makes her home on the farm in Centerview township, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising; and George W., a well to do farmer and stockman of Chilhowee township, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Eppright was twice married: His first wife was a Miss Starkey. He died in 1900. He was an honest, industrious, capable citizen, one who has been sadly missed in this community. Mrs. Mary Jane Eppright has made her home in this county all her life and the relation of her youthful experiences furnishes an excellent picture of pioneer life in Missouri. She possesses a remarkable memory and well recalls the early churches, homes, schools and pleasures. Shiloh Presbyterian church was the first to be organized and the church structure to be erected in the vicinity of her home. Preachers of all denominations proclaimed the Gospel there among the first of whom were: Reverends Ridley, "Uncle Billy" Caldwell, Benton Farr, Ben Thomas, Carter, Birchfield, and "Uncle Hugh" Smith. Her father taught the "subscription school," which she attended. The school was held in a log house, having a clapboard roof, greased paper window, and puncheon floor. She sat on one of the puncheon benches which were placed around the three sides of the room. On one side of the room was a sort of shelf made of a puncheon, built against the wall, high enough for the older boys and girls to write upon. This was what was called a "loud school" for when the teacher would say, "Study your spelling lessons," every child in the school would take his book and shout his lesson at the top of his voice. This made great confusion. Nathan Perry, who succeeded Mr. Stone as teacher, introduced the first "silent study" in this part of Missouri. The early settlers enjoyed one another more in the days of long ago, visiting more frequently, and giving accommodations more cheerfully. When a girl, Mrs. Eppright immensely enjoyed the old fashioned camp meetings. The pioneers would turn the calves with the cows and all go to the meeting, where scores of families would "camp out" and have great times. The mail was received but once weekly. Letters were not stamped in those days, but one paid twenty-five cents at the time he received a letter. As money was often very scarce in the homes of the pioneers a handful of letters was far from desirable. There was very much hard work to be done in the pioneer homes. All the clothing was provided by labor in the home and usually by the mother. Mrs. Eppright has carded, spun, wove, and colored the wool and then fashioned it into clothing for the different members of her family. Mrs. Mary Jane Eppright is worthy of the greatest respect and consideration. The advantages and pleasures we now enjoy could not exist were it not that men and women, such as she, toiled long and hard in days gone by and did without much which we think so necessary. Such brave, true lives have made this beautiful country possible.
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