Sarah Ann "Salley" Frances CAPPS (1846-1943)

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Sarah Ann "Salley" Frances CAPPS (1846-1943)

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Sarah Ann "Salley" Frances CAPPS (1846-1943) obituary photo

 

Clara Mytrle GRAY-SADLER Bird's (1900-1988)

  Grandfather & Grandmother

 

Terry Louis Linton 

 

Clara Mytrle GRAY-SADLER Bird's (1900-1988) grandfather, John Williams (1840-1943) was born on November 26, 1840, in Seaboard, Princess Anne County, Virginia. John died on August 13, 1943, in Princess Anne, Norfolk County, Virginia, at age 102. John Williams was the son of William Mastin Williams Sr (1809-1859) of Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia and Eliza Jane Emberson (1822-1856) of Hempstead County, Arkansas.

 

In 1865, John Williams married Sarah A. Capps (1846-1943), in Seaboard, Princess Anne County, Virginia. Clara’s grandmother Sarah , was the daughter of Ira Capps Jr. (1802- ?) and Lydia Unknown (1827- ?). Sarah was born in 1846, in Pungo, Princess Anne County, Virginia. Sarah died on December 8, 1943. in Norfolk, Virginia, at age 97. Sarah according to her obituary, she had 15 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren when she died.

 

John and Sarah had four known children:

 

Alice J. Williams (1866- ?); Lula Virginia "Ginny" Williams (1874-?); Edward G. Williams (1876-1904); Russell G. Williams (1881-1979)