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Americas (America) CAPPS HINES ** My greatgrandmother**
b. abt 1846 / 1849 Hardin, Kentucky
d. Nov 2 1926 Breckenridge co @ 77 yrs old
Americus Parents :
Achilles M CAPPS ** "Killis"
b. abt 1822 Hardin Co., KY
d. 1899 Muhlenberg, KY
m. May 23, 1843 in Hardin Co., KY
Margaret Frances DICKERSON 'Frances'
b. abt 1827 KY
her father: Hezekiah DICKERSON
his father: Josiah CAPPS **
b. 1796 Hardin Co. , KY
Achilles M mother: Cela (Celia) CAPPS
b. 1800 Hardin Co. , KY
other child(ren) of Josiah & Cela:
2. John R. CAPPS
b 1818 in TN
child(ren) John R CAPPS & unknown :
i. Ambrose G. CAPPS
b. 1843 in Hardin Co. , KY
3. Nathan CAPPS (brother to killis m)
NOTES: Hardin County, Kentucky Marriages, 1830 to 1850
compiled by Mary Josephine Jones, 1996, published by Ancestral Trails Historical Society,
Vine Grove, Ky.
Book Page # 83
CAPPS, Achilles M. and Margaret Frances DICKERSON
License date: 13 May 1843
Married: 23 May 1843
Surety: Hezekiah DICKERSON. Man of age. Hezekiah DICKERSON, girl's father, consented
in person.
Married by: C. T. MEADOR Book-B, Page-1171
Achilles Capps family listed in 1850 census of Hardin County and 1860 census of
Breckinridge County, but they were not listed in the 1870 census of Breckinridge County.
{Many Dickersons in that area & time period were Cherokee}
summary of all 9 children of Achilles & Frances:
1. ) Americas CAPPS HINES (America/cus) **(great grandmother)
2. ) Florentine CAPPS (female)
3. ) Achilles J CAPPS "Kill"
4. ) Alanson M. CAPPS or Lance/ Lans
5. ) Catharine CAPPS MURPHY
6. ) Anzonetti (Anzonetta) CAPPS BROWN "Puss"
7. ) Milton Hains CAPPS
8. ) Belle Zara CAPPS EVITTS Belle
9. ) Mary CAPPS
1. ) Americas CAPPS HINES {my ggrandmother{ (Americus) **
b. 1846 KY
m. George Washington HINES ** more detailed info on G. W. HINES pages
2. ) Florentine CAPPS (female)
b. abt. 1848 KY
d. before 1910
3. ) Achilles J CAPPS "Kill"
b. 1849
d. 1924
m. Louveny (Louvinia) CAPPS
b. 1854
d. 1918
both are buried Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church
7 Children of Achilles & Louveny:
i. Minnie M CAPPS
b. 1879
ii. Dora B CAPPS
b. 1881
iii. Amos CAPPS
b. 1884
m. Ida Mae
iv. Nina CAPPS
b. 1886
v. Elmer T CAPPS
b. 1889
vi. Roy C CAPPS
b. 1894
vii. John R CAPPS
b. 1897
4. ) Alanson M. CAPPS Lance / Lans
b. abt. 1844
d. after 1910
m. (1) Laura MADDOCK
Alansons children w / Laura:
i. Thomas Jefferson CAPPS
notes T. J. : joined the Army in Roan County TN.
Fought in the Spanish American War
m. (2) 1882 Mary E. PANNELL YONTS Molly
see below for notes on Marys family
b. 1850 in Tennessee
her 1st m. to Archibald YONTS
NOTES: when Alanson & Mary married she had a dau Callie YONTS and a son Joseph YONTS
and a possible 3rd child Eliza
i. Callie YONTS
ii. Joseph YONTS
b. 1873 KY
d. 1927 Iowa
iii. Elizabeth Nancy YONTS CLARKE Eliza
b. 1869 KY
m. William CLARKE
Mary E. PANNELL YONTS CAPPS (2nd wife to Lance CAPPS) family info:
mother: Eliza Ann CROCKETT b. 1812
father: James M. PANNELL b. abt.1828
Elizas parents: William CROCKETT b. 1779
Mary Ann Polly FLESHART b. 1795
m. 1811 in Knoxville, TN
3 other children of Eliza & James Pannell:
i. Joseph Crockett PANNELL
m. Laura Florence Amanda GRAVES
Joseph & Laura had 8/ 9 living children:
~i. James PANNELL
~ii. Robert PANNELL
~iii. Joseph Crockett J.C. PANNELL
~iv. Gussie PANNELL
~v. Laura PANNELL
~vi. Mattie PANNELL
~vii. Laney PANNELL
~viii. Greenwood Hamilton PANNELL SR
b. 1893 in Tishamungo Co. Mississippi
Greenwood Hamilton PANNELL Jr.
Greenwood Jr. had 4 children
Joyce PANNELL
Jeanne PANNELL
James PANNELL
Patricia PANNELL
ii. Martha C. PANNELL
m. Joseph ROSS
iii. Ann E. PANNELL
NOTES: William is listed in the 1860 census in Muhlenberg Co., KY.
Eliza Ann lived in Central City in 1882.
5. ) Catharine CAPPS MURPHY
b. April 25 1825 NC
d. July 10 1894
m. Nov 4 1848 in Alabama
William Richard MURPHY
NOTES: they lived in Macon Co. Alabama 1880.William Murphy was Cherokee Indian and
research indicates that she as well could have been a Cherokee Indian. According to
family, notes, rolls, other web sites many Dickerson's (her moms side) were also
Cherokee.
6 children of Catharine & Wm:
i. Charles MURPHY
b. 1848
ii. Mary MURPHY
b. 1852
iii. Wiley Whitt MURPHY
b. May 23, 1853
iv. Margaret MURPHY
b. 1862
v. Warren MURPHY
b. 1865
vi. Robert MURPHY
b. 1867
6. ) Anzonetta (Anzonetti) CAPPS BROWN "Puss"
b. July 13, 1853 in Hardin Co., KY
d. 1922
m. Samuel BROWN
both buried: Cherry Hill Cemetery near Central City, KY
According to family history, they moved to central city in 1910.
She did frequently come back to Leitchfield to visit with her sister Americas family
HINES & GOFF. My Uncle remembered family members speaking of her fondly. Have a copy
of a letter she wrote to her sister Americus dated May 7, 1910.
8 children of Puss & Sam: (as of the letter in 1910 6 were married- 2 single)
i.
ii. female
d. before 1910
children:
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
7. ) Milton Hains CAPPS
b. Feb 18, 1856 in Breckenridge Co., KY
d. before 1910
m. UNKNOWN
children of Milton & ?:
-`Ed' CAPPS
children of Ed & ? :
-Robert Edmund CAPPS
died in 1974 in Oklahoma
8. ) Belle Zara CAPPS EVITTS
b. May 2, 1858 in Breckenridge Co., KY
d. Aug 20, 1923 Muhlenberg Co., KY
m. 1873 Muhlenberg Co.
Joseph Avery EVITTS
d. after 1910
NOTES: they lived in Muhlenberg Co., KY
Belle and Joe had at least 10 children (1876-1896)
Most of their children settled around Western KY, although two moved to Ogden Utah
sometime before the 1960's and both died there.
10 children of Belle & Joe:
i. Ely EVITTS
ii. Otha Mae EVITTS (Utah)
iii. Jackson EVITTS "Jack" (Utah)
Jackson served in WWI and was wounded,
lived w/his sister Otha the rest of his life
iv. Lucian Avery EVITTS
v. Lou Ada EVITTS
vi. Eli EVITTS
m. (1)
m. (2)
m. (3)
13 children over a 40 yr span 1910-1940
i. Mary E. EVITTS
ii. Andrew EVITTS
iii. Henry Cleveland EVITTS "Uncle Bud"
iv. Bertha EVITTS
v. Ulis EVITTS
9. ) Mary CAPPS
b. 1860
Possible additional child #10
? 10.) ELY CAPPS
b. 1867
NOTES: also in household:
CAPPS, Nathan 22-m farmer KY
possible brother of Achilles ?
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