Alfred Epps circa 1917. Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
Early in the summer of 1917, Alfred G. Epps — Lizzie Sauter Boyd's second husband — announced that he had accepted a position with the manual training department of the Grand Rapids, Michigan public school system. It carried a substantially larger salary than he had been earning with the local schools. In August he and Lizzie, and her two young sons, packed up and left Hobart. This was a long-term move: they would still be in Grand Rapids in 1930.
Around the same time, Lizzie's father, the wandering Ed Sauter — that restless soul — showed up again around these parts — perhaps by accident, literally. He and some friends drove out to southern Porter County on the night of May 19 to see the damage caused by a tornado that had swept through Hebron and Kouts that afternoon. The car Ed was riding in ended up in a ditch, with Ed quite badly hurt. He went to convalesce at the home of his daughter, Clara Severance, just east of Hobart. I haven't the faintest idea where Ed had been staying before he got hurt.
Sources:
♦ 1930 Census.
♦ Hobart High School Aurora Yearbook, 1917.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 4 May 1917; 25 May 1917; 24 Aug. 1917.
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