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Mr. Epps taught his growing family of children to fly, and Ben, Jr., the oldest son, soloed at age 13 in 1929. Eight of his nine children are or have been aviators and his six sons are all engaged in various phases of aviation. Ben Epps was critically injured in a crash at Athens in 1935 and in 1937 he was fatally injured in a take-off crash at the Athens airport, which is now named in his honor.