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This is Peter Jepson's grave marker. There is a larger "Jepson" tombstone on the plot.
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This is Charlotta Jepson's grave marker. These are two of the four graves in this plot.
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Frans was Peter Jepson's third son, fourth child. He went to North Dakota to work with his brother, Andrew, and died there. |
Albert was Peter Jepson's
fourth son but Charlotta's first. Albert spent his adult life in
Beach, North Dakota, and was brought back here after his death. |
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Frank's birth and death information is engraved on the back side of Peter & Charlotta's tombstone.
The other side looks the same except it has Peter and Charlotta's dates.
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Alice was Peter Jepson's third daughter, seventh child, Charlotta's second child. She married the neighbor boy, John Gibson, son of Swedish immigrants. They lived on a farm about a mile west of Mead. She left three small children when she died. |
This is Alice's husband, John Gibson's, grave marker.
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This is the tombstone on the John and Alice Gibson plot |
In this close-up of the Gibson stone the reflections of two family members who were also looking at the stone can be seen. |
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Edith was Peter and Charlotta Jepson's youngest child. Edith was the "tag along" born eight years after Alice. Edith married the Jepson's hired hand, Emil Wilson, also a Swedish immigrant. When he died she was left with five young children to raise. |
Emil married Edith Jepson. He died of an infection caused by an injury while working on the farm.
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Mildred was the eldest daughter of Edith and Emil Wilson and a granddaughter of Peter Jepson. She worked for many years in Minneapolis and then moved to Lincoln when she retired. |
This tombstone marks the plot in which Edith, Emil and their daughter, Mildred, are buried.
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This is the tombstone that marks the Johnson plot. Grave maker stones for Alice and A. J. are in front of the stone.
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Florance Elanora was a granddaughter of Peter Jepson, daughter of Margaret and A. J. Johnson. This is the back side of the Johnson plot tombstone. |
Here is a closer look at that tombstone. She was almost 17 when she died. |
Sextus was the sixth child of Margaret and A. J. Johnson and a grandson of Peter Jepson. Sextus farmed 2 1/2 miles northeast of this cemetery all his life. He was married to Vicky Udd.