I was quite pleased to discover Capps now has an e-mail list. This brnach of
my reserach has been essentially a deadend, particularly as far as locations
are concerned. THe one document I've seen first hand is a page from an old
family Bible which lists the names, but no locations. I've managed to get
hold of a photocopy of an older Bible entry with some dates, but again, no
locations. I suspect this line is primarily in Southern Missouri and Eastern
Tennessee.
Here are the names I have
1. Joseph Capps, 10 April 1807-4 Feb. 1877 ; married to Rebecca Moulder.
(Capps family of Grainger Co. TN seem to have arrived about 1802 from Wilkes
Co. NC. Members spread from Grainger (or rather Grainger was broken up into)
to Claiborne and Campbell Cos. in the 1820s. -- From Gene:
ernest.fricks(a)stoneweb.com)
2. Valentine Wills Capps, 13 April 1833-6 May 1914; married to Minerva Jane
Atkins, 24 December 1854
3. William Scott Capps born 22 February 1856
Joseph Morris "Joe" Capps born 12 April 1858
Samuel Atkins "Sam" Capps born 4 August 1860
Dr. Claudius Meade "C.M." Capps born 9 April 1863
Mary Selene "S" "Mollie" Capps, 29 April 1866, Knoxville, TN-20 Nov.
1947,
Gentry, Ark; married to William Houston Boruff 10 Feb. 1886, Grainger County
TN, his second wife (my great-grandmother)
Ollie Frances Capps born 5 February 1869
Emily Lucinda Capps born 9 January 1872
Rebecca Elizabeth Capps born 10 August 1874
Alice Dellona "Della" Capps born ca. 24 September 1878
Nora Luverna Capps born 28 August 1882
4. (Descendants of Mollie and William Houston Boruff)
Pearlie Boruff
Frank E> Boruff
Edgar (?) Boruff
Dewey Boruff
Emily Louisa "Lula" Boruff, 8 Nov. 1886, TN-19 June 1959 at Springdale,
Washington County, Arkansas; married to Elbert Alexander Long , 4 February
1906 at Neosho, Missouri
I have bits and pieces on the aforementioned and am happy to share what I
have. If anyone sees a match to your line, please let me know. I have no idea
where grandma Lula's siblings wound up. This line is my vaguest at this time.
E. Alan Long
Holiday Island, Arkansas
Surnames: Atkins/Atkinson, Capps, Humphreys, Boruff, Yadon, Lewis, Beeler,
Long, Peak/Peck. Wysor, Houchins, Parker, Moulder, Petre, Boyers, Gambol,
Pennybacker, Dotterer, Proctor, Cowden, Roper, Burch, Williams, Thomas,
Hammack, Penrod, Moore, Dixon, Dewitt, Marten, Thomas (second line), Gore and
Harvey