S.R. EPLEY
Arizona Republican Newspaper
September 21, 1903

This afternoon the last friendly offices for the dead were 
performed over the remains of S.R. Epley, a pioneer of Globe 
district, who with his brother A.T. Epley, familiarly known 
as Uncle John arrived here in the fall of 1875 before there 
was any semblance of a town and Globe has been his residence 
continuously since.  S.R. Epley or "Dick" Epley as he was 
called, had been in California since the latter part of June 
having gone there in quest of health but his condition 
gradually growing worse, and having a premonition of death 
he decided to return to Globe earlier than he had planned.