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Author: oolaurie
Surnames: Caperton, Noble
Classification: queries
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I know this is a very late response to this message, but I hope you are still on ancestry
and able to read it. I've been researching the Caperton line from Mercer, Summers and
Monroe counties in West Virginia. John Stodghill is also one of my ancestors and Malinda -
I suppose - would be some sort of grand Aunt.
In 1880, Malinda and her husband John Noble lived in a homeplace on a farm owned by her
brother Overton Caperton. This (large) farm was and is located near Shanklin's Ferry
in Pipestem, Summers County. Overton apparently owned most of the land in the area - the
households listed in the 1880 census list his ownership of 110-121. It appears 11
different families lived on the farm. Most of the families listed are somehow related to
Overton.
In Malinda's home the census shows:
John B. born 1826
Malinda B. 1829
James B. 1857
Margaret B. 1859
Henry B. 1861
Granville B. 1866.
But that's not the end of the story! Recently, I ran across a newspaper article that
detailed the discovery of a large sum of money in Overton Caperton's home. It's
posted on our family blog - in an article titled Did you ever wonder what happened to our
inheritance? This article and many other Caperton (from West Virginia) articles can be
read at
www.prideofwestvirginia.org
- Laurie Stone
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