THE PLEASANTON HERALD 1/1935

LUSETTA ANN EPS, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. ROBERT EPPS WHO LOCATED HERE IN 1856 WAS BORN JUNE 1 1846 IN JEFFFERSON, CO TENN, DIED AT HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. EFFIE ASHLEY IN THIS PLACE, JAN 12, 630 PM, AGE 88 YARS, 6 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS. AT AGE OF SIX YEARS SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS WHO LOCATED A FEW MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHERE NOW STANDS PLEASANTON. HERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AND WAS EDUCATED AT THE COUNTRY SCHOOLS. SHE JOINED THE UNITED BRETHERN CHURCH WHEN SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND LIVED TRUE TO THE TEACHINGS OF HER MASTER SHE SO FAITHFULLY SERVED TO THE END. MARCH 17, 1864 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO A RUGGED SON OF EARLY DAY SETTLER, JOHN M. SERIGHT, SOON AFTERWARDS MOVING TO THE OLD HOME PLACE EAST OF TOWN FOUR MILES WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL 1919 WHEN SHE CAME TO PLEASANTON TO LIVE WITH HER DAUGHTER, MRS. EFFIE ASHLEY OWNING THE FARM AT THE TIME OF DEATH. TO THIS UNION THIRTEEN CHILDREN WERE BORN. THE FOLLOWING SURVIVING: MRS.MARY HELFRICH OF JOHNSON CITY, TENN, MRS. L. W. JOHNSON, YATES CENTER, MESDAME IVA AND EFFIE ASHLEY, PLEASANTON, FRANK SERIGHT, BANNING CALIFORNIA, ROBERT SERIGHT, CARTHAGE, MO AND LOWELL W. SERIGHT OF OTTAWA. ALL OF WHOM WERE PRESENT TO PAY LAST RESPECTS TO THEIR DEAR MOTHER EXCEPT FRANK WHO ON ACCOUNT OF SICKNESS COULD NOT BE HERE. DECEASED LIFE COMPANION, PAST OVER AUGUST 1908. BESIDES THE SEVEN CHILDREN SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER, MESDAMES, LYDIA KARAKAR OF SAN DIEGO CA, AND J. M. WAYTS OF HUME AND F. ELZA EPS OF CRAIG, COL. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THIRTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND TWO GREATGREAT GRANDCHILDREN. EXCERPTS FROM A VERY LONG 2ND OBITUARY LUSETTA EPPS SERIGHT ALONG WITH HER FAMILY WENT THROUGH THE PRE WAR AND CIVIL WAR DAYS.