Samuel L. Jepson

A shoemaker from Ipswich, he enlisted as Corporal in Company F, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry at age 21 in May 1861. Promoted Sergeant 5 March 1862.

He was wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

Returned to duty 10 March 1863. Reenlisted. Promoted to First Sergeant on 1 March 1864, back to Sergeant 4 March 1865, again First Sergeant on 23 April 1865. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant 3 July 1865, but not mustered at that rank.

The 1880 Census lists him in Lynn, MA, a grocer living on Norcross Street with wife Georgia (31) and daughters Clara (13) and Elva (8). By 1899 he was a shoemaker boarding on Monroe Street.

Basic information from Quint1. His gravesite on Findagrave. Details from family genealogists.

04/1839; Berwick, ME

04/1926; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA