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Martin Carter Eppes

3 Apr 1850 – 4 Dec 1896

Birth3 Apr 1850
Death4 Dec 1896
CemeteryLlano City Cemetery
Llano , Llano County , Texas , USA
Added byGTT on 24 Feb 2026
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Bio

Martin Eppes came to Texas with his parents at about the age of two years (or slightly younger.) In 1870 the trouble was going on in Menard County, because of the "Humphy" Jackson affair as a result of a negro soldier at Fort McKavett sending a love note to "Humphy Jackson's" daughter. William Eppes had been put in jail because he worked as a hired hand for "Humphy Jackson". Shortly thereafter William was released from jail. He and Martin Eppes entered the Texas Rangers service. Their younger brother George was also at Fort McKavett because of the trouble brewing there. They had arrived to help their brother, William. George Eppes was too young to enter the Texas Ranger service. It seemed that their brother James Eppes had been killed around this time or just prior to it. James was killed on the little river that is named Epps Creek now. This creek is in Sutton County, Texas. After Martin Eppes completed this Ranger service, he returned to Blanco and then attended the State University at Austin. This seems to have been when the university consisted of a number small log cabins located on the ground where the present university now stands. The cabins were so cold during the winter that they were used mostly for summer college classes. (Mother said that her father, Martin Eppes, was among the first graduates from the university.) Martin taught school a number of years before and after his marriage. Some of his old college books, leather bound, among them a Trigonometry book, were in the possession of his daughter, Aileen. After Aileen's death, records, pictures and other articles were broken into and stolen and lost. Book 1, page 208, shows land granted to Martin C. Eppes by Governor L. S. Ross - 12 Feb. 1889, and gives this description nd location of grant: In the name of the State of Texas To whom these Presents shall come know ye: I l. s. Ross Governor of the State aforesaid by the virture of the power vested in me by law and in accordance with the laws of the State in such case made and provided do by these presents Grant to Martin C. Eppes, his heirs or assigns Forever One Hundred and Sixty (160) acres of land, situated and described as follows: In Blanco County known as Survey 107 on the waters of White Oak Creek a tributary of Grape Creek about 20 miles N 15 W Blanco City, by virtue of his affidavit made before the Clerk of the County Court for Blanco County, Jan. 15th 1889, Under an act for the benefit of the actual occupants of the Public Land approved May 26th 1873. Beginning at the S. E. Cor of Sur No. 353 for J. W. Crawford on N bdy of Sur No. 352 for Payton Hest at a stone mound from which a Hickory brs N 55 E 18 vrs & do brs N 32 W 16 vrs. Thence North 1324 vrs with E line of Sur No. 353 for J. W. Crawford to a stone mound for S. W. Cor of Sur No. 104 for T. G. Young. Thence East 665 vrs to the S. E. Cor of Sur No. 104 to a stone mound. Then North 353 1/2 vrs to N. W. Cor of this survey. Hereby relinguishing to him the said Martin C. Eppes and his heirs or assigns forever all the right and title to said Land heretofore held and possessed by the said State and I do hereby issue this Letter Patent for the same. In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the seal of the State to be affixed as well as the Seal of the General Land Office. Done at the City of Austin on the Twelveth day of February, In the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty nine. Martin Eppes taught school at Blanco, Johnson City, Eastland and other locations. Their oldest daughter, Carrie, said her mother also taught and took her and her sister Aileen to school with her, often by horseback. Carrie said her mother was very strict on her own children in school. Emma Eppes also had a "photograph gallery" at Blanco, and one later at Llano, Texas. About 1888, Martin Eppes and family moved to Llano, where he purchased a small plot of land and put in a blacksmith shop, while Emma continued in her photographic work. Many of her photographs remain today in possession of many of her kin. On 20 Dec. 1896 at Llano, Texas, Martin C. Eppes died as the result of typhoid fever. He was buried at the town cemetery by his little son, Leonard Porter Eppes, who had died as a result of falling while playing into a pot of boiling water that was to be used for washing clothes. The grave of Martin Eppes was unmarked. Upon writer (Edna Allison) going to Llano and contacting the McKinney-Duncan Tombstone Company there, Mr. Duncan searched the graveyard and found a large unmarked grave by little Leonard Porter Eppes, which also from his records he identified it as the grave of Martin C. Eppes. Writer then went back to Llano and selected a beautiful Llano granite stone to be placed at Martin C. Eppes grave. (Much appreciation is due Mr. Duncan for his help.)

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