Note: There are varying birth years given for Martha Fields Epps, per Union County, Ga. and Madison County, Ga. census records:
1870 - abt. 1861
1880 - abt. 1859
1900 - Oct. 1862
1910 - abt. 1870
1920 - abt. 1864
1930 - abt. 1861
If her year of death was 1932 and she was 71 years old at death, puts her at 1861. Therefore I have used that year as date of death.

Mrs Martha Cook Fields Epps
The Banner Herald, Athens, GA,
Monday, February 15, 1932
Transcribed by Connie Epps Bond (CEB), April 15, 2008
DOD: February 13, 1932
Wife of Joseph Malone Epps (some records say Joseph Asbury Epps, by ISL, 16 Nov. 2016)
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OBITUARY
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Epps To
Be Held Tuesday

Died At Sawdust; to
Be Buried at Pleasant Grove.

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Epps, 71, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred Watkins, at Sawdust, GA, Saturday, will be held in the Pleasant Grove Baptist church, Neese, Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Rev. G. W. Wallace, pastor, will conduct the services. The following will serve as pallbearers: homer Epps, Linton Epps, Curtis Epps, Bill Poss, and Grady Fouch. Interment will be in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery, with McDorman Bridges in charge.

Surviving Mrs. Epps are two daughters, Mrs. A. W. Gray*, Commerce, and Mrs. Fred Watkins, Sawdust, three sons, Oscar Epps, Athens; George and Blair* Epps, Blain of Sawdust; two brothers, Jack Fields, Athens and W.M. Fields, Sawdust.

Mrs. Epps, widow of the late J. M. Epps, a Confederate veteran, was: Miss Martha Cook **, a native of Union county, before her marriage. She had lived in Madison county for the past 25 years, and was well known. She was a member of one of Georgia's oldest families.

Note from CEB, April 15, 2008.
I called Sallie Bell Gary Wilson

· *Gray- should be Gary
· *Blair- should be Blain
· ** Cook- Maiden name is correct, first marriage, then married a Fields

Correction: Maiden name was Fields. Cook was her mother's maiden name and was probably given as Martha's middle name, as was sometimes customary.
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Georgia Deaths
Name: Mrs Martha Epps
Death Date: 13 Feb 1932
County of Death: Madison
Certificate: 6506
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Civil War: Reel 274-44
Epps, Martha, widow of Joseph Epps
Application for Pension
Epps, Joseph
Jackson Co 1908

Joseph Epps Dod: 23 Nov 1908
Thomas Epps witness 15 Dec 1908

Marriage: 1 November 1896 Union Co
Joseph Epps to Martha Fields

Joseph Epps and Martha Fields Dec 1, 1897, Union Co., GA

Dec 1908 (letter certifying that marriage license is a true copy)
Joseph Epps and Martha Fields (see marriage license above)

I made a trip to Union Co, GA. Found the Rich House, I stood with my back to the EPPS Mountain, lower Owl Town Rd
chimney to take the photo of EPPS Blairsville, GA (Union Co., GA)
Locals refer to this as Rich Mountain I pulled a copy of the county map and it is shown as EPPS mountain and it is shown that way in the maps you purchase off the Shelf in Wallmart, etc (looks like a hill) (per Connie Epps Bond)