KEPNER, Amos Koch

Amos Koch KEPNER
Philadelphia, PA

This photograph was found at the Glenwood Manor Antiques in Queensbury NY, yesterday. Ancestry.com has lots of source material for Amos and his family.

1850 CENSUS > Pennsylvania > Montgomery > Limerick
KEPNER, William, 38, farmer
KEPNER, Sarah, 45 (her maiden name is Koch)
KEPNER, Catherine, 16
KEPNER, Daniel, 13
KEPNER, Christianna, 11
KEPNER, William, 9
KEPNER, Amos, 8

1862, 4 Nov - mustered out from Camp Philadelphia, Infantry, 2nd lietenant, 179th PA Militia, age 19.

1870 CENSUS > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Ward 20
KEPNER, William K, 29, retail grocer
KEPNER, Amos K, 27 retail grocer

1880 CENSUS > Penns > Philadelphia > 1212 Columbia Ave.
KEPNER, Amos K, 37, Grocer, born in PA of PA parents
KEPNER, Mary, 32, wife, keeping house, born in NY of NY and Conn parents
KEPNER, Eulaila C., 4, daughter, born in PA
MAYBERRY, Martha A., 39, servant, born in PA
KEPNER, William K., 39, brother, born in PA

NOTE - The servant enumerated on the 1880 Census, Martha Ann Mayberry, is actually a niece of Amos, being a daughter of Amos' sister Catherine.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 June 1904
KEPNER - On Sunday, May 22, 1904, at his home in Wallingford Conn. AMOS K KEPNER, aged 60 years.

According to Findagrave.com , Amos K Kepner was born 26 Dec 1842, and died 22 May 1904. He is buried at North Greenwich Congregational Church Cemetery. (The headstone at right was found and photographed by Find-a-grave volunteer Pat Larrabee).

His wife was Mary Close Palmer (1848-1940).

Daughter Eulaila (1876-1957) married Dr Carl A. Williams (1872-1956)