< Roger Capps' Visit to Mt. Pulaski > photos & information
Roger Capps, retired educator from Portland, OR., and great great grandson of Mt. Pulaski's co-founder, Jabez Capps, will be guest speaker at the Mt. Pulaski Historical Society meeting this coming Monday, Sept. 28th at 7 pm in the Mt. Pulaski Historical Museum. The public is invited. The meeting may be moved two doors down to the VFW hall if there is a large crowd. Refreshments will be served.
Roger reports that he has an original invitation to
Abraham Lincoln's funeral - "probably given to my grandfather's
father, (Jabez's son) - Ebenezer".
Capps Family of Illinois Inherit a Rich Estate in England
"Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 26, 1897.The Capps family, residing in Illiopolis, Springfield, Riverton, Vandalia, and Mt. Pulaski, in this state, have just come into an inheritance of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 through the death of a brother named Thomas Capps, in London, England, on Sept. 19. Among the beneficiaries of Thomas Capps are Charles Capps and J.M. Capps of this city and A.S. Capps of Riverton. The deceased was formerly in the wholesale cloth trade, having retired to a country seat in 1875. He was ninety years old at the time of his death."
Jabez co-founded Mt. Pulaski in 1836 and died in Mt. Pulaski on April 1, 1896, one year before his brother, Thomas. Jabez was only 5 months short of his 100th birthday.
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