Rev. John Capps

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Son of William Capps and Nancy Cooksey. First married to Mary Chadwick; second to Lucinda Couch; third to Mary Armanda Rutledge.

You may not know how Rev. John Capps name is attached to Ballard Cemetery, but I would appreciate any perspective, because you know the lay of the land around there. I don't doubt but what his grave is there, and I think he spent his last years as a Baptist Church in Ox Creek/Reems Creek. He is the only Capps buried there. He died in 1875 and the family probably allowed his burial in their cemetery. I think his family then drifted away over time, and his grave was never marked by any of his 21 children. He was in Buncombe, probably Reems Creek, in 1860. As best I can tell, that census record does not specify the part of Buncombe. Looks like his boys "laid-out" during the Civil War, and they had thousands of acres to retreat to in that remote part of the mountains. They lived just on the other side of Vance Knob from the Vance family. Zeb, you know, was a Whig and opposed secession until Lincoln's unconstitutional call for troops to invade the South. As I drove up Ox Creek, I saw a "Union Valley" church, and think that "Union" part may not have been by accident. Rev. John's son Aaron, was picked up as a conscript, deserted from Camp Vance near Morganton, and then hid out, I think, and joined the other Capps back in the Green River section of Henderson County. Son William W. Capps went across the mountain to Knoxville at the very end of the war and Joined the 3rd NC Mounted Infantry (US) in January, 1865, as a musician. He has a union marker on his grave over in Unicoi County, TN, the Martin Cemetery. I guess it's good to join the winning side, even if it's in the last 2 minutes of the game. Did not mean to get into all of that, but would appreciate your perspective on the burial of Rev. John, my 3rd great granddaddy. One thing is for certain, his descendants are as numerous as the "sands of the seashore." Alan Leonard (#47994105)