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Edward Charles Kepke

Birth	:	5 Sep 1882 Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, USA
Death	:	14 Jul 1919 Vermilion, Lloydminster Census Division, Alberta, Canada
Burial	:	Centenary Cemetery, Wayne County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.2602997, -77.1121979
Inscription	:	No Pain No Grief No Anxious Fear can reach our loved one Sleeping here.
Description	:	From ElK Point History. THE EDWARD KEPKE---GUSTAV SWANSON STORY, by Nellie Kepke In Fort Saskatchewan, Edward Kepke married Gertrude Omness. The year was 1908. They soon moved to the Vegreville area and in 1910 Ed Kepke filed on a homestead in the Spring Park district. They moved to this homestead in 1911 along with their thirteen month old daughter Florence. The move was made by horses and a wagon and a loaded hay rack in which they carried hay, oats, food etc. They also brought along eighteen head of cattle. It was a slow journey taking from May 24 to June... Read More	From ElK Point History. THE EDWARD KEPKE---GUSTAV SWANSON STORY, by Nellie Kepke In Fort Saskatchewan, Edward Kepke married Gertrude Omness. The year was 1908. They soon moved to the Vegreville area and in 1910 Ed Kepke filed on a homestead in the Spring Park district. They moved to this homestead in 1911 along with their thirteen month old daughter Florence. The move was made by horses and a wagon and a loaded hay rack in which they carried hay, oats, food etc. They also brought along eighteen head of cattle. It was a slow journey taking from May 24 to June 9. The first morning on the road they wakened to find six inches of snow had fallen on their camp. The North Saskatchewan River was crossed at Brosseau. For the first few months the little family lived on the Burmaster property in a little shack. This land was later owned by Ed Kepke and later again was owned by Gus Swanson. Mrs. Kepke sent to T. Eatons for a bolt of canvas from which she and Ed made a tent in which to live on their own land. The tent had a board floor and three foot walls. Just before Christmas that year they moved into their own two room log cabin. In a year or two Ed had taken out logs for a six room house. He hired a neighbor, Joe Peters, to do the mortar work on a field stone foundation. Joe was a powerful man with a very short temper. We are told there was one particularily large stone that no matter how he tried would not fit into the foundation. Angered, he picked up the stone and threw it towards the road, about thirty feet. Mrs. Kepke (Mrs. Swanson) said it was still there when she left the farm in 1945. No one man could move it. Ed Kepke died in 1919 and left a wife and four children, Florence (Mrs. Raymond Hammond), Auburn, Earl and Rufus.

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Where is Edward Charles Kepke's memorial?
Edward Charles Kepke's memorial is located at: Centenary Cemetery, Wayne County, USA.
When did Edward Charles Kepke death?
Edward Charles Kepke death on 14 Jul 1919 in Vermilion, Lloydminster Census Division, Alberta, Canada
Where are the coordinates of the Edward Charles Kepke's memorial?
Latitude: 43.2602997
Longitude: -77.1121979

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Gertrude Alice Omness Kepke-Swanson

(1888 - 1981)

Siblings

Children

LCPL Earl Matthew Kepke

(1915 - 1991)

Stanley Rufus Kepke

(1919 - 1973)

Flowers:

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