Anne Isham Eppes

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• Reference Number: 2619
• Residence: 1716, USA
• Residence: 1786, USA; Will of Anne Harris, Wife of Benjamin Harris and daughter of Col. Francis Eppes IV.

Notes:

EPPSIEPESIEPPES The Epps family found throughout the southern United
States primarily descended from Francis Eppes who came to Virginia from
County Kent, England prior to 1625. The movement of Epps to South
Carolina has recently been well documented in a massive genealogy of the
family. During the 11th century they spread across North and South
Carolina. The Indian name Epps is Haliwa-Saponi more than Lumbee. No
Epps were found on N.C. tax payer lists 1619-1190 which suggests Virginia
origins across the border from Halifax and Warren counties. None were
found in the 1715-1789 tax lists of Bladen and none were found in the 1850
of Robeson. A Rosa Lee Clark Epps, 70, with an obituary in 2006 indicating
that she was Lumbee, was buried in Lumbee Memorial Gardens in
Pembroke and had daughters married into the Hammons, Carter, Chavis,
Sampson, Locklear, and Hanchey families. Brothers were named Chavis and
Hunt (Robeson Journal, Oct. 25, 2006). Some who migrated to Greensboro
with the Stewarts from northeastern North Carolina did intermarry with
Lumbees in the mid to late 20th century. Robeson death records of 1924 and
1941 indicate that the name may be Lumbee or Black in Robeson with
several Indians by that name located in Maxton township, related to the
Chavis, Jacobs and other Epps families. Cited at Benson's Chapel cemetery
and Harper's Ferry Church cemetery # 1 by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred
Grounds, 2001, a listing of 162 Lumbee cemeteries in Robeson County.
DeMaree (1992) traces them as free persons of color in 18th century
southside Virginia or "Person County Indians" of both Virginia and N.C.

Anne married Benjamin Harris 1736, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Benjamin (son of Thomas Harris and Mary Jefferson) was born 1710, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died 29 May 1759, Cumberland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]