Madison-Oglethorpe-Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Epps, Joseph A. May 15, 1951
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The Banner-Herald, Athens, Georgia, Wednesday, May 16, 1951



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.


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age 88 death 1951 born abt 1863

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