In the bucolic hills of Central Iowa in Jasper county is found a secluded, but well-maintained graveyard called Mt. Zion cemetery, in the rolling green and golden hills of Iowa rest family members of the Earp clan of Wyatt Earp fame, A son of Walter Earp, Lorenzo Dow, a native of North Carolina, attained manhood in his Kentucky home, whence he immigrated to Warren County, Illinois, in 1846. He made that location his home until 1853, when he removed to Jasper County, Iowa, and engaged in farming until his death, in the fall of 1893, at the age of eighty-four years. Lorenzon served as justice of the peace and post-master of Galesburg, Iowa. In his religious convictions he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, politically he was a staunch Republican and during the Civil War was active in efforts to raise troops for the Union Army. He was twice married, his first wife being Nancy Storm, a native of Kentucky. Nancy Earp died in Illinois, after which her husband again married. He had eighteen children, nine by the first wife and nine by the second, of whom six sons and five daughters.
ref (History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California, 1906, p. 298 - biography of Peter Asbury Earp).
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