PIERCE COUNTY NEBRASKA CIVIL WAR DATABASE - E

 

 

EDWARDS, ORRIN; Plainview

          Sources:  1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

 

 

ELDRED, FERNANDO C. Plainview

          Sources: 1893 Nebraska Veterans Census (gun shot wound thigh &

shoulder)

 

 

EPPLER, EDWARD J.; Hadar;

B: 4 April 1843 Germany D: 10 August 1905 Burial: Immanuel Lutheran

Cemetery; Hadar, Nebraska

          Wisconsin 26 Infantry Company B - Private

Enlistment Date: 21 August 1862

Sources: 1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

                   Civil War Pension File

                   Sons of Union Veterans Database

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 17 August 1905

 

E. J. Eppler, an old pioneer farmer who has lived two and one-half miles east of Hadar for the past twenty-five years, died last Thursday, August 10th.  Mr. Eppler was sixty two years old and leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his loss.  Funeral services were held at the German Lutheran church in Hadar on Sunday afternoon, Rev. Theo. Brier officiating.  The remains were laid to rest in the cemetery just west of Hadar.  The sympathy of the community is extended to the family.

 

Norfolk Daily News; Norfolk, Nebraska; 10 August 1905; Page 4

 

E. J. Eppler Is Dead

 

Pioneer Farmer of Madison County Succumbed at Noon Today

 

E. J. Eppler, a pioneer farmer of Madison county who has lived near Norfolk for twenty-five years died at noon today.  Mr. Eppler had been suffering from kidney trouble. He lived five miles north and one and a half mile east. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.