Linda Kaye Capps

Linda married John D. Lane [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Preston Lane
2. Daniel Lane

Preston married Minnie Elizabeth Morrison [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Social Security Death Index]

Individual: Capps, George
Social Security #: 238-10-7302
Issued in: North Carolina
Birth date: Jun 21, 1887
Death date: Aug 1965
Residence code: North Carolina

George married Polly Sally Campbell on 20 Dec 1914 in Harnett Co., North Carolina. Polly (daughter of John Buie Patterson and Rachael Elizabeth Morrison) was born on 8 Dec 1896 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; died on 4 Jun 1958 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Antioch Baptist Church, Mamers, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Social Security Death Index]

Individual: Morrison, Alex
Social Security #: 239-58-8292
Issued in: North Carolina
Birth date: Dec 17, 1895
Death date: Feb 1978
Residence code: North Carolina
ZIP Code of last known residence: 27546
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Lillington, North Carolina
ZIP Code of address where death benefit payment was sent: 27546
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Lillington, North Carolina

[North Carolina Deaths, 1978]

Name: MORRISON, ALEX
Death Date: February 15, 1978
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age: 82 Years
Place of Death: Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina
Place of Residence: , Harnett, North Carolina
Autopsy: No
Hospital: Veterans Hospital
Bed Code: Under 20 Beds
Marital Status: Widowed
Attendant: Physician
Burial: Burial in state
Birth Date: December 17, 1895
State of Birth: North Carolina
Social Security Number: 239588292

Alex married Ethel Virginia Harrington on 2 Apr 1930 in Harnett Co., North Carolina. Ethel (daughter of Sion Anson Harrington and Minnie P. McCormick) was born on 2 Jun 1900 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; died on 31 Oct 1961 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Mamers, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://users.firstva.com/diadem/capps.htm

------ James Ruffin CAPPS got his start working as a farmer in Harnett County, NC around 1880 for George James HODGES (son of John HODGES and Rebecca ALLEN). In 1881 he married George James HODGES's step-daughter, Sarah Catherine WHITTINGTON (daughter of Anna [possibly McLamb] ENNIS and W. Bryant WHITTINGTON). Anna Ennis WHITTINGTON married George James HODGES after her first husband (W. Bryant WHITTINGTON) died sometime between 1860 and 1861, possibly as a consequence of the Civil War. James Ruffin continued to work for and with George HODGES through at least 1900, for census records of that year show him and his brother William Henry CAPPS farming the land across the road from Hodges's home and Hodges's Chapel Church. That church burned down in 1992 and was replaced by a new Hodges Chapel Church located on the land they farmed. The Hodges's home is still there, located next to Hodges's Chapel cemetery. Behind the new Church is a small home that once belonged to James Ruffin's daughter, Loula F. CAPPS and her husband William Archie SANFORD. James Ruffin lived with them in the later years of his life. For more information on the Hodges's family, I recommend "Remembering Our Goff-Hodges and their Kin" by V. Mayo Bundy. This book was given me by Talmage Vernon CAPPS, Jr, who is also the one who pieced together the puzzle of how the Hodges, Capps and Whittingtons are interrelated.

------ By 1910, however, he was working in a cotton mill, according to census records of that year, and in 1925 he lived at 101 North 17th Street, Erwin, NC. It was here he and his wife cared for Talmage Vernon CAPPS, Jr. (their grandchild) for the first several months of Talmage's life. This was only two blocks from the cloth house where James Ruffin worked at the Erwin Cotton Mill. His job was to iron the cloth before it was shipped out.

----- Talmage recalls vividly that when James Ruffin got too old he was retired from the mill with no pay. For a long time he would keep going back and iron for nothing. But then he would get caught and sent back home. This did not stop him though and he would always keep going back.

------ Talmage V. CAPPS, Jr. reports that he was usually called Ruffin, but that lots of younger people called him "Uncle Pete." He doesn't know where the name "Uncle Pete" came from. Talmage remembers him as about 5'8" or 9" and a little heavy, but not much. Roger Eugene CAPPS remembers his great-grand father as "Little Grandpa" because Roger's grandfather, William "Lonnie" Alonzo CAPPS, was taller and hence called "Big Grandpa". Roger remembers him as always well-dressed, but shorter, maybe 5' 4".

------ Talmage had this to say about James Ruffin on 15-Nov-1993: "I don't think I've known a more humble and likeable person. I never met anyone who did not like him. I never heard him say a harmful thing or ever belittle anyone.... I believed he stayed with Loula and Arch Sanford more than anyone else. He was a true gentleman."

------ James Ruffin's death certificate says that the immediate cause of his death was myocarditis (disease of the heart) due to hypertension and arteriosclerosis. According to the certificate, he had myocarditis for seven years and hypertension and arteriosclerosis for fifteen years. James Ruffin is buried in Hodges's Chapel cemetery; also there are his wife, her mother and step-father, as well as James Ruffin's daughter Loula and her husband Archie.

Sarah: Roger Capps reported the spelling of her name as Whittington

James married Sarah Catherine Whittington on 18 Dec 1881 in Johnston Co., North Carolina. Sarah (daughter of W. Bryant Whittington and Anna Maria McLamb) was born on 12 Nov 1855 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; died on 8 Mar 1932 in Erwin, Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Hodges Chapel Cemetery, Benson, Johnston Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Linda Gardner]

Sarah's' parents are Anna (Allice) Ennis and Bryant Whittenton
(Whittington).

John married Rachael Elizabeth Morrison. Rachael was born on 26 Dec 1870 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; died on 21 Oct 1923 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Mamers, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sion married Minnie P. McCormick on 19 May 1895 in Harnett Co., North Carolina. Minnie (daughter of Duncan McCormick and Louisa Temperance Brown) was born on 22 Aug 1873 in Chatham Co., North Carolina; died on 10 Sep 1947 in Harnett Co. North Carolina; was buried in Mt. Pisgah Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]