Halifax Hues #2: Layering the Pigment—The Widow’s Tax and Brotherly Bonds
In my last post, I shared my "Theory in Progress": the hunch that my wife’s ancestor, Daniel Epps, was the brother of William Epps, making them both sons of the Revolutionary War veteran Moses Epps. Proving a connection in early 19th-century Virginia often requires looking at who lived next door to whom. Since I lacked a birth register entry, I turned to the Halifax County Tax Lists and Census Records to see if these men occupied the same physical and legal space.