Person:Jordan Epperson (1)

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This Jordan Epperson was son of another Jordan Epperson of Fayette County, Kentucky. He left Fayette County and moved to Bartholemew County, Indiana, and then moved to Bedford County, Tennessee, then to Bentonn County, Arkansas.

Jourdan Epperson was a deacon in the Missionary Baptist Church on Sugar Creek, known as the Big Spring Church.

1850 federal census Bedford Co., TN 56/420

1852 tax roll for Benton Co., Arkansas

1860 Federal census Benton Co., Arkansas, pg. 411 1186/1180

1870 Federal census Benton Co., Arkansas

deed Bedford Co., TN, pg 349 2/3/1851 - Harrel Wiggins to church - deed - 3 acres - "For the purpose of encouraging the worship of the Almighty God and goodwill, Harrel Wiggins has for the preaching of the Gospel, he gives and conveys to James Nelson and JORDAN EPPERSON, deacons in the Missionary Baptist Church on Sugar Creek, known as Big Spring Church, land, being part of the tract of land on which Harrel Wiggins now lives. Bounded by the three acres of land belonging to the Big Spring School House" - registered 1 March 1851

Benton Co., Arkansas deed naming Jorden Epperson span 1855 to 1872.

Benton Co., Arkansas tax records 1852

Jordan Epperson of Benton, Arkansas, was ordained on July 14, 1872 at the United Baptist Church of Christ located in Spavinaw (part of Bentonville Baptist Assn. that also lists Big Springs Church as part of the Assn). The source for Ordination is located at the Benton County Courthouse, Book A, pages 304 and 305. In 1868, he is listed as a delegate to the 5th Annual Session of this Assn on behalf of Spavanau (spell error?) Baptist Church with J F Mitchell residing as the pastor (Pioneer Vol 16, no.2 Spring 1971). The Spavinaw community, per a local historian, no longer exists. However, per this volume of the Pioneer, "the early churches had difficulty keeping records of their own, but hardly without exception took offerings to see that annual Association Minutes were printed. These very early minutyes are the property of the First Baptist Church, Springdale, which celebrated a 1970 centennial beginning as Liberty Baptist Church with a Shiloh post office." He lived south of Bentonville on now what is called Cave Springs Road and purportedly was burined in Apple Orchard (no longer exists).