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His new style birth date was 19 Nov. He lived in Fairview, Oklahoma.This couple had no living children of their own but were the fosterparents to Abraham W. Epp #58176 and Fredrick Oliver Epp # 58178. Heand Carolina raised Elizabeth Patzkowski (1898-1998). Abraham P. Epp and Carolina Bekker did not have children of their ownbut raised Abraham W. & Frederic Oliver Epp as foster children. Theywere never legally adopted. Epp, Abraham P. (1871-1941) Abraham P. Epp, minister of the Mennonite Brethren Church, was born atEvanecke, South Russia, 19 November 1871, the seventh of the tenchildren of Peter and Katharina (Klassen) Epp. In 1876 the familyimmigrated to America, settling on a farm near Hillsboro, Kansas,where Abraham grew up and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church in1891. In 1893 he took a homestead on the Cherokee Strip, southeast ofwhat is today Fairview, Oklahoma, and established his home, marryingCarolina Bekker on 27 December 1894. They had a family of threechildren. He was very active in the South Fairview Mennonite BrethrenChurch from its very beginning, serving as Sunday-schoolsuperintendent and deacon for many years. In 1925 the congregationelected him to the ministry, and for some time he was its pastor. In1928 he retired and moved to Fairview. Abraham Epp was an active worker in the Southern District Conference(Mennonite Brethren) and served as its treasurer in 1924-39. He diedat his home in Fairview on 8 October 1941, and was buried in the SouthFairview Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Herald Press Information logo Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, andWaterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 233-234.All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopediavisit the Herald Press website. ©1996-2009 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Allrights reserved. To cite this page: MLA style: Lohrenz, John H. "Epp, Abraham P. (1871-1941)." GlobalAnabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Global AnabaptistMennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 July 2009 APA style: Lohrenz, John H. (1956). "Epp, Abraham P. (1871-1941)."Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global AnabaptistMennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 July 2009
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