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My Mother was a Capwell. She died The day before the Twin Towers attack. She was not
raised by her Capwell family. This is the story she recounted to me as I was growing up.
Her father was a welsh farmer in Pennsylvania. He married and they had 5 children, 2 boys
and 3 girls. My mother was the youngest. She was delivered by a midwife, Mrs. Harvey, wife
of Samuel Harvey. My grandmother was 28 when she gave birth to my mother. She knew she
was not going to live and asked the midwife to raise my mother. She died shortly
thereafter, probably of what was called whiteleg, which is a bloodclot in the leg causing
embolism. Mrs. Harvey raised my mother as her own and my mom finally started using the
name Harvey as she got going to school
My mothers name was Thelma Irene Capwell, supposedly named by my grandmother, before her
death, after her best friend. I may be wrong in this but I think moms sisters were names
Mary and Martha. Mary is right I know cuz as a little girl I met her. I think her brothers
were Joseph, James, and Kenneth. My mother married Phillip Oscar Sickler and had 3
children including me. She later divorced and remarried Roland Cory Esdaile. No offspring
ensued. If anyone can help me contact me at cduane(a)hotmail.com
Crystal Duane