This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Epperson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeB.2ACE/3371.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Robert and Thompson Epperson that were in Wilkes Co, NC were sons of David and Hannah Thompson Epperson. Shadrick M. Epperson, born in 1800 in Wilkes Co, NC has been thought to be the son of Thomas and Mary Cross Epperson. Thomas and Mary died in Grainger County, TN. Thomas' father is thought to be Francis Epperson. Shadrick M. Epperson married Jane W. Orick, sister of my great great grandfather and they lived in Grainger County, TN. Jane W. Orick and James Madison Orick's sister, Rebecca Orick, married William Mills and did have a daughter named Elizabeth but I don't have marriage info on that Elizabeth Mills but they also had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth that married a John Wilson Depew. The name Shadrick or Shadrack followed down his and Jane W. Orick's line several generations and Shadrick M. went by the nickname "Shade". Shadrick M. and Jane W. Orick Epperson's children were: Thomas, born 1821 John, 1824 Wiley B., 1826 Mary, 1828 Lydia, 1830 William, 1832 Melvina, 1834 Martha Jane, Sept 5, 1835 James, 1837 Mary Nancy Ann, Oct 14, 1838 Benjamin, 1843 (Jane's father's name) Elizabeth, 1848 A lot of men with the name Thompson ended up on census records as Thomas. That happened in my Langford line so I wonder if other researchers are not wrong about Shadrick M. belonging to Thomas and Mary Cross and actually belonged to Thompson Epperson since he and Robert were in Wilkes County and Thompson was the right age to have been Shadrick's father. Thompson Epperson married Mary Israel and he ended up in Franklin Co, Georgia. I only have seven children listed for them and there's a span of 6 years between the last 2, Thompson Jr. in 1797 and Charles in 1803 so Shadrick M. could have very well belonged to them.