John Pepper
John Pepper married Catherine Emmett. He died 28 August 1826. His son Benjamin Franklin Pepper married twice and had many children. His family moved from Hanging Rock, Hampshire County, West Virgina to Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri between 1857 and 1861. The exact year is not known. His first wife, Rebecca Baker, died in December 1866. Benjamin then married Sally Ann Coyle, who was about three years younger than Benjamin's oldest daughter.
Benjamin led a wagon train of settlers to Texas from Missouri in 1876. His house is located six miles southwest of Junction, Kimble County, Texas on highway #377. It was one of the first two story houses in the county, built on caliche soil with no foundation in 1877 to 1879. It was the girlhood home Fay Wright, the 1941-1947 First Lady of Texas as wife of Governor Coke R. Stevenson. The home became a recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965.
On 8 November 1902, Benjamin sold his ranch and moved most of his family to Ramona, San Diego County, California. The children of his first wife and their families all stayed in Kimble County, Texas.
Submitted by Kelly Everett Pepper
Email: kell...@sbcglobal.net
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