Although the headstone reflects a birth year of 1891, the 1900 Brawley, Scott, Arkansas Census says April 1886, the 1910 census says age 24 (1886), and her marriage bond to Joseph T. Epperson reflects that she was 22 when they married in 1911 (b. 1889).
Martha's son and my father, Alvin Walker Epperson, installed her headstone in the late 80s/early 90s using the best info available to him at the time.
As best I can tell, Martha died of influenza during the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (commonly called the Spanish Flu. Her sons, Jimmie Walter and Alvin Walker, both told of her getting sick and the doctor recommending they take her to Arizona for better air. She died near Heavner, Oklahoma while enroute. The creeks were up and they couldn't get back to Ritz, so they buried her with her Nix family in Oliver Cemetery.
Her and her familiy's graves are to the left near the North-northwest corner of the cemetery.
Martha's son and my father, Alvin Walker Epperson, installed her headstone in the late 80s/early 90s using the best info available to him at the time.
As best I can tell, Martha died of influenza during the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (commonly called the Spanish Flu. Her sons, Jimmie Walter and Alvin Walker, both told of her getting sick and the doctor recommending they take her to Arizona for better air. She died near Heavner, Oklahoma while enroute. The creeks were up and they couldn't get back to Ritz, so they buried her with her Nix family in Oliver Cemetery.
Her and her familiy's graves are to the left near the North-northwest corner of the cemetery.
Although the headstone reflects a birth year of 1891, the 1900 Brawley, Scott, Arkansas Census says April 1886, the 1910 census says age 24 (1886), and her marriage bond to Joseph T. Epperson reflects that she was 22 when they married in 1911 (b. 1889).
Martha's son and my father, Alvin Walker Epperson, installed her headstone in the late 80s/early 90s using the best info available to him at the time.
As best I can tell, Martha died of influenza during the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (commonly called the Spanish Flu. Her sons, Jimmie Walter and Alvin Walker, both told of her getting sick and the doctor recommending they take her to Arizona for better air. She died near Heavner, Oklahoma while enroute. The creeks were up and they couldn't get back to Ritz, so they buried her with her Nix family in Oliver Cemetery.
Her and her familiy's graves are to the left near the North-northwest corner of the cemetery.
Martha's son and my father, Alvin Walker Epperson, installed her headstone in the late 80s/early 90s using the best info available to him at the time.
As best I can tell, Martha died of influenza during the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (commonly called the Spanish Flu. Her sons, Jimmie Walter and Alvin Walker, both told of her getting sick and the doctor recommending they take her to Arizona for better air. She died near Heavner, Oklahoma while enroute. The creeks were up and they couldn't get back to Ritz, so they buried her with her Nix family in Oliver Cemetery.
Her and her familiy's graves are to the left near the North-northwest corner of the cemetery.
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