1850 United States Federal Census Name: Samuel Hepler Age: 64 Birth Year: abt 1786 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1850: North East District, Rockbridge, Virginia Gender: Male Family Number: 398 Household Members: Name Age Samuel Hepler 64 Catharine Hepler 57 Isaac Hepler 30 Estaline Hepler 18
1860 United States Federal Census Name: Samuel Hepler Age in 1860: 74 Birth Year: abt 1786 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: District 5, Rockbridge, Virginia Gender: Male Post Office: Lexington Household Members: Name Age Isaac Hepler 40 Mary E Hepler 30 John W Hepler 10 Otto S Hepler 6 Emma Hepler 4 Elizabeth K Hepler 3 Poindexter Hepler 5/12 O W Haggard 14 Samuel Hepler 74 Agnes Dobbins 13
HEPLER John Hepler, of Shenandoah, married Miss Harness. Their son, Jacob Hepler, pioneer of Audrain county, Mo., was grandfather of Rev. John Hepler Wood, banker, minister of the Christian (Diciples) Church and president of Culver-Stockton College, Missouri. Another son, Samuel Hepler, born 1785, of near Goshen, Rockbridge county Va. married Katherine Lair, and was grandfather of Rev. J. Newton B. Hepler, distinguished Baptist minister of Missouri.
