William Hines CAPPS (1802-1850)

William Hines CAPPS (1802-1850)

Margaret "Peggy" Ann YADON (1806–1876)

page established June 2022 

William Hines CAPPS (1802-1850)

Margaret "Peggy" Ann YADON (1806–1876)

Terry Louis Linton © 2022

Linton Research Fund Inc., © 2022

LINTON Chronicles Volume XVIV, Issue 2, Summer © 2024, ISSN 1941-3521

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William Hines CAPPS (1802-1850) & Margaret "Peggy" Ann YADON (1806–1876) were the 4^th  great-grandparents of Clara Myrtle GRAY-SADLER Bird (1900-1988) and the 5^th great-grandparents of Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012).

William Hines CAPPS (1802–1850) was the son of Jacob William CAPPS (1765–1840) & Sarah SANDERS (1767–1831). Jacob was born 1765  in Orange, Chatham County, North Carolina, migrated to Pungo, Seaboard, Princes Anne County, Virginia, then to Hines Valley, Grainger County, Tennessee and died in 1840 in Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri.

William was born on July 17, 1802, in Hines Valley, Grainger County, Tennessee. He migrated to  Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri and died on June 27, 1850, in River, Alamosa, Colorado. During the late 1850s, many Southerners migrated to the Colorado Territory in search of new opportunities, including working in the newly discovered gold fields.

William married Margaret "Peggy" Ann YADON (1806–1876) Peggy was the daughter of Joseph Preston YADON (1756–1843) emigrant & Mary Susannah PENNYBAKER (1763–1838)

William and Peggy had children:

1. Lydia CAPPS (1823–1882) was born in on April 7, 1823, in Pungo, Princess Anne County, Virginia and died on January 29, 1882, in  Pungo, Princess Anne County, Virginia.
2. Washington Hines CAPPS (1825–1863) was born in 1825 at Knotts Island, Currituck County, North Carolina. William served with the Confederate Unit H 7 Kentucky Cavalry; H 35 Kentucky Infantry. And was killed in action in Tennessee in 1863.

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Direct lineal descent

William Hines CAPPS (1802-1850) & Margaret "Peggy" Ann YADON (1806–1876)

Lydia CAPPS (1823-1882) & Ira CAPPS Jr., (1802-1881)  cousins

Sarah "Salley" Ann Frances CAPPS (1846-1943) & John Walker WILLIAMS (1840–1943)

Lula Virginia "Jennie" WILLIAMS (1873-1935) & George Irvin GRAY (1874–1905)

Clara Myrtle GRAY-SADLER (1900-1988) Jeff Augustus “Gus” BIRD (1893-1954)

Evelyn Virginia BIRD (1922-2012) & Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987)

4^th great-grandparents of Kenneth “Ken” Edward LINTON & Terry Louis LINTON

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CAPPS Branch of the BIRD Family Tree  ancestors of Ira CAPPS Jr., (1802-1881) established June 23, 2022 

CAPPS Branch of the BIRD Family Tree ancestors of Lydia CAPPS (1823–1882) established June 2022