Anne Isham Eppes

1716 - 1787  (71 years)

• Name	Anne Isham Eppes
  Born	1716	Bermuda, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	2619
  Residence	1716	USA
  Residence	1786	USA
  	Will of Anne Harris, Wife of Benjamin Harris and daughter of Col. Francis Eppes IV.
  Died	15 May 1787	Southampton, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I2619	Families

  
  

  Family	Benjamin Harris,   b. 1710, Henrico, Virginia, USA ,   d. 29 May 1759, Cumberland, Virginia, USA  (Age 49 years)
  Married	1736	Henrico, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1716 - Bermuda, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA Residence - 1716 - USA Married - 1736 - Henrico, Virginia, USA Residence - Will of Anne Harris, Wife of Benjamin Harris and daughter of Col. Francis Eppes IV. - 1786 - USA Died - 15 May 1787 - Southampton, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  EPPSIEPESIEPPES The Epps family found throughout the southern United States primarily descended from Francis Eppes who came to Virginia from County Kent, England prior to 1625. The movement of Epps to South Carolina has recently been well documented in a massive genealogy of the family. During the 11th century they spread across North and South Carolina. The Indian name Epps is Haliwa-Saponi more than Lumbee. No Epps were found on N.C. tax payer lists 1619-1190 which suggests Virginia origins across the border from Halifax and Warren counties. None were found in the 1715-1789 tax lists of Bladen and none were found in the 1850 of Robeson. A Rosa Lee Clark Epps, 70, with an obituary in 2006 indicating that she was Lumbee, was buried in Lumbee Memorial Gardens in Pembroke and had daughters married into the Hammons, Carter, Chavis, Sampson, Locklear, and Hanchey families. Brothers were named Chavis and Hunt (Robeson Journal, Oct. 25, 2006). Some who migrated to Greensboro with the Stewarts from northeastern North Carolina did intermarry with Lumbees in the mid to late 20th century. Robeson death records of 1924 and 1941 indicate that the name may be Lumbee or Black in Robeson with several Indians by that name located in Maxton township, related to the Chavis, Jacobs and other Epps families. Cited at Benson's Chapel cemetery and Harper's Ferry Church cemetery # 1 by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2001, a listing of 162 Lumbee cemeteries in Robeson County. DeMaree (1992) traces them as free persons of color in 18th century southside Virginia or "Person County Indians" of both Virginia and N.C.