DESCENDANTS OF ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS - Generations 2 and 3

ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS - Generation No. 2

ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS (MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Thursday, December 4, 1873, in Matfield Green, Chase County, Kansas. The second child and first daughter of Marshal and Mary [Davenport] Capps, Fannie was born in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

TO ARKANSAS (BY WAY OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS)

Around 1877, the still-growing family may have briefly migrated to Missouri, only to return to Kansas between 1878 and 1882, settling in Chatauqua Springs, Chatauqua County. Between March and December 1885, the family left Kansas one last time, bound for what would be their final destination – the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas - a distance of roughly 125 miles.

How Did They Travel? Most pioneers traveled in a Conestoga wagon or a spring wagon made of hickory, oak or maple. Many chose oxen to pull their wagons because of their strength, and would use up to four oxen per wagon. The father would drive the oxen by walking beside the wagon and the women and children would walk behind it much of the time. Most days, they would’ve been able to travel 10 to 15 miles; on rainy or muddy days they might’ve made it just 1 mile! It would’ve taken 5 to 7 days to travel the same distance we can now drive in a single hour! So this 125-mile journey that we could easily drive in 2 hours probably took them at least 8 days...and likely longer.

Fannie’s Tea Set. During one of these moves, young Fannie asked her father’s permission to bring along her child’s tea set. With space being limited, she was told she could not. An ingenious child, Fannie packed her dishes in a pail and secured it to the undercarriage of the wagon. Either her father never discovered the pail or – more likely - he chose to ignore that it was there, as he never spoke a word of it to her and Fannie was able to keep her cherished dishes.

MARRIAGE and CHILDREN

Fannie married CHARLES BENJAMIN (BEN) PRICKETT [b. Monday, February 22, 1875, in Clifty, Carroll County, Arkansas], son of THOMAS JEFFERSON PRICKETT and EDNA THORNBURG, on Sunday, November 27, 1898, in Pleasant Valley, Carroll County, Arkansas.

Children of FANNIE CAPPS and BEN PRICKETT are:

i. HERBERT DANIEL PRICKETT, b. Thursday, November 30, 1899, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. Sunday, December 3, 1899, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; interred at Beulah Union Cemetery, Carroll County, Arkansas.

ii. MABEL SYLVIA PRICKETT, b. November 13, 1900, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. April 20, 2000, in Carroll County, Arkansas.

iii. DAVID MASON (DAVE) PRICKETT, b. August 16, 1903, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. May 23, 1993, in Clifty, Madison County, Arkansas.

iv. MARY ETHEL (ETHEL) PRICKETT, b. December 2, 1905, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. October 1, 1978, in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas.

v. AMANDA GENEVA (MANDY) PRICKETT, b. August 3, 1908, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. November 6, 1986, in Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas.

vi. LUCY MINERVA (PAT) PRICKETT, b. September 15, 1912, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. July 25, 1973, in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas; interred at Beulah Union Cemetery, Carroll County, Arkansas.

vii. JAMES WALTER (WALTER) PRICKETT, b. October 8, 1914, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. July 31, 1940, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

THE MAX HUNTER COLLECTION

Max Hunter, a traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks to preserve the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. These recordings are now part of The Max Hunter Collection, an archive of almost 1,600 Ozark Mountain folksongs recorded between 1956 and 1976.

According to Ed Stilley, a family friend who lived with and cared for Aunt Fannie in her later years, Pat [Prickett] Edstrom worked in a Eureka Springs restaurant where Mr. Hunter happened to stop for a meal one day in 1958. An outgoing and friendly man, Mr. Hunter related his ambition to record and preserve Ozark folk songs and Pat offered that her mother and brother might sing for him.

On Wednesday, February 5, 1958, Mr. Hunter traveled to the home of “Aunt” Fannie Prickett and recorded her singing At the Feast of Belshazzer, Behold the Wayward Boy, Lonesome is the Winter and The Model Church. According to Mr. Hunter’s notes, Fannie was 84 years old at the time and was just getting over a “very bad sick spell.”

Ed recalls that during Mr. Hunter’s interview with Fannie, he asked about her church and the services held. Fannie related a story of coming home from a church revival one autumn evening to find her family home engulfed in flames, eventually burning to the ground.

Mr. Hunter also recorded Fannie’s sister, Lucy [Capps] Quigley, two of Fannie’s children – Dave Prickett and Pat [Prickett] Edstrom, and Ed Stilley.

PASSAGES

After seven children and 36 years of marriage, Ben passed away on Tuesday, January 22, 1935, in Carroll County, Arkansas, 1 month shy of his 60th birthday. He is interred at Beulah Union Cemetery in Carroll County, Arkansas. Fannie passed away nearly 27 years later at the age of 88 years and 2 days on Wednesday, December 6, 1961 in Eureka Springs. She is also interred at Beulah Union Cemetery.

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MABEL SYLVIA PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

MABEL SYLVIA PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Tuesday, November 13, 1900, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGES and CHILDREN

Mabel married (1) HAROLD DOUGLAS COLE [b. Wednesday, October 24, 1894, in Pratt, Pratt County, Kansas], son of EATON COLE and BELLE UNKNOWN, on Sunday, October 31, 1920, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

Children of MABEL PRICKETT and HAROLD COLE are:

i. MELVIN RAY COLE, b. December 10, 1922, Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas; d. April 16, 1992, Moreno Valley, Riverside County, California.

ii. LIVING COLE.

iii. LIVING COLE.

iv. LIVING COLE.

v. LIVING COLE.

OCCUPATIONS

Like his father, Harold made his living as a barber.

TO OKLAHOMA AND BACK

Sometime between 1923 and 1924, Mabel, Harold and their son Melvin migrated from Arkansas to Oklahoma, first settling in Hughes County and then Seminole County. The family returned to Arkansas sometime before 1942.

MILITARY DRAFTS

Harold registered for the WWI draft at the age of 22 years on Monday, June 5, 1916, while working as a farmhand in Pueblo, Colorado; and the WWII draft at the age of 47 years old in 1942 (see facsimiles of these documents).

PASSAGES

After five children and 52 years of marriage, Harold passed away in May 1972 in Carroll County, Arkansas. Mabel passed away nearly 28 years later on Thursday, April 20, 2000, in Carroll County, Arkansas – 7 months before her 100th birthday.

REMARRIAGES

Mabel married (2) FLOYD WRIGHT [b. Saturday, February 20, 1897] in about June 1980.

PASSAGES

Floyd passed away in January 1982 in Carroll County, Arkansas.

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DAVID MASON (DAVE) PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

DAVID MASON (DAVE) PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Sunday, August 16, 1903, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGES/PARTNERS and CHILDREN

Dave married LELA M. BENNETT [b. Monday, September 14, 1908], daughter of THOMAS J. BENNETT and DELLA PRESLEY, in Arkansas.

Children of DAVE PRICKETT and LELA BENNETT are:

i. LIVING PRIKETT.

ii. LIVING PRICKETT.

iii. LIVING PRICKETT.

A Second Family. Dave had an enduring relationship with his sister-in-law, VERDA [BENNETT] CAPPS [b. July 19, 1916], daughter of THOMAS J. BENNETT and DELLA PRESLEY, which produced two children. Verda was previously (and briefly) married to Dave’s cousin, Lester Capps.

Children of DAVE PRICKETT and VERDA BENNETT are:

iv. LIVING.

v. LIVING.

More Bennett/Prickett Connections. Intermarrying between local families in the Arkansas hollows was quite common, so it’s not unusual that our Cappses, Pricketts, and Bennetts are allied in more ways than one. Lela Bennett, wife of Dave Prickett, and Verda Bennett, first wife of Dave’s cousin Lester Capps, are sisters to Bill Bennett, husband of Dave’s younger sister Mandy Prickett.

THE MAX HUNTER COLLECTION

Max Hunter, a traveling salesman from Springfield, took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks to preserve the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. These recordings are now part of The Max Hunter Collection, an archive of almost 1,600 Ozark Mountain folksongs recorded between 1956 and 1976.

Mr. Hunter recorded Dave Prickett singing The Waxweed Girl, a song taught to him by his father, Ben Prickett. Mr. Hunter also recorded Dave’s mother Fannie (Capps) Prickett, aunt Lucy (Capps) Quigley, sister Pat [Prickett] Edstrom, and family friend Ed Stilley.

PASSAGES

Lela passed away on Tuesday, August 11, 1992, in Benton County, Arkansas. She is likely interred at Pea Ridge, Benton County, Arkansas. Dave passed away less than a year later on Sunday, May 23, 1993, in Clifty, Madison County, Arkansas; he is interred at Pea Ridge, Benton County, Arkansas.

Verda [Bennett] Capps developed Alzheimer's disease late in life and lived out her remaining years in an Arkansas nursing home. She passed away December 6, 2006 in Arkansas at the age of 90 years.

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MARY ETHEL (ETHEL) PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

MARY ETHEL (ETHEL) PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Saturday, December 2, 1905, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGE and CHILDREN

Ethel married FRED O. RHIEL [b. Friday, October 3, 1902], son of JOSEPH A. RHIEL and SUZANNAH A. (SUSIE) McINTYRE.

Rhiel Ancestry. Fred’s family has been traced to his maternal 4th great-grandparents, Donald McIntire (1782-1871) and Mary Margaret (1783-1871), of Argyl, Scotland. His grandfather, Daniel McIntyre (1824-1917), born in Paisley, County Renfrew, Scotland, was the first in this line to immigrate to the United States. He lived first in Randolph County, Illinois, before settling in Cedar Township, Carroll County, Arkansas, along with his wife Elizabeth (Betsy) Edmondson (1828-1905) and their 10 children, one of who was Suzannah McIntyre, Fred’s mother.

Children of ETHEL PRICKETT and FRED RHIEL are:

i. LIVING RHIEL.

ii. LIVING RHIEL.

OCCUPATIONS

Ethel and Fred owned and operated a dairy farm.

PASSAGES

After two children and more than 40 years of marriage, Fred passed away on Friday, April 8, 1966, in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas. He is interred at Eureka Springs Cemetery in Eureka Springs. Ethel passed away 12 years later on Sunday, October 1, 1978, in Eureka Springs. She is interred at City Cemetery in Eureka Springs.

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AMANDA GENEVA (MANDY) PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

AMANDA GENEVA (MANDY) PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Monday, August 3, 1908, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGE and CHILDREN

Mandy married WILLIAM JOHN (BILL) BENNETT [b. about 1907 in Arkansas], son of THOMAS J. BENNETT and DELLA PRESLEY, in Arkansas.

Bennett Connections. Bill Bennett was the brother of Lela [Bennett] Prickett, wife of David Mason Prickett, and Verda [Bennett] Capps, first wife of Lester Everett Capps.

Bennett/Prickett Connections. Intermarrying between local families in the Arkansas hollows was quite common, so it’s not unusual that our Cappses, Pricketts and Bennetts are allied in more ways than one. Bill Bennett, husband of Mandy Prickett, is the brother of Verda Bennett, first wife of Mandy’s cousin Lester Capps, and Lela Bennett, wife of Mandy’s older brother Dave Prickett.

Children of MANDY PRICKETT and BILL BENNETT are:

i. LIVING BENNETT.

ii. LIVING BENNETT.

iii. LIVING BENNETT.

OCCUPATIONS

Bill was a farmer and Pentecostal minister.

PASSAGES

Mandy passed away on Thursday, November 6, 1986, in Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas, and is interred at Beulah Union Cemetery, Carroll County, Arkansas. For whatever reason, Mandy’s headstone is inscribed with her maiden rather than her married name.

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LUCY MINERVA (PAT) PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

LUCY MINERVA (PAT) PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Sunday, September 15, 1912, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGES/PARTNERS and CHILDREN

Pat married (1) ERNEST NELSON on Saturday, June 8, 1935, in Carroll County, Arkansas.

This marriage ended in divorce.

Pat moved to California and found work as a housekeeper for a prosperous attorney in the Los Angeles area who was several years her senior. Pat married (2) “POP” EDSTROM. Following Pop’s death, Pat inherited through his estate and returned to Carroll County, Arkansas. She took a job as a waitress in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas.

THE MAX HUNTER COLLECTION

Max Hunter, a traveling salesman from Springfield, took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks to preserve the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. These recordings are now part of The Max Hunter Collection, an archive of almost 1,600 Ozark Mountain folksongs recorded between 1956 and 1976.

Mr. Hunter recorded Pat Prickett singing William Hall, Don’t Sell the Old Homestead and Green Grows the Laurels. He also recorded Pat’s mother Fannie [Capps] Prickett, aunt Lucy [Capps] Quigley and brother Dave Prickett.

PASSAGES

Pat passed away Wednesday, July 25, 1973, in Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, and is interred at Beulah Union Cemetery, Carroll County, Arkansas.

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JAMES WALTER PRICKETT - Generation No. 3

JAMES WALTER (WALTER) PRICKETT (ANNA FRANCES (FANNIE) CAPPS, MARSHAL PINKNEY) was born Thursday, October 8, 1914, in Hogscald Hollow, Carroll County, Arkansas.

MARRIAGE and CHILDREN

Walter married ANNA BELLE BAKER [b. Monday, April 19, 1920, in Smithville, Arkansas] on Sunday, April 4, 1937, in Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas.

Child of JAMES PRICKETT and ANNA BELLE BAKER is:

i. LIVING PRICKETT.

PASSAGES

Walter passed away from typhoid fever on Wednesday, July 31, 1940, in Hogscald Hollow, nearly 3 months before the birth of his first child. He was just 25 years old. Walter is interred at Beulah Union Cemetery, Carroll County, Arkansas.

New Beginnings. Walter’s young widow married CHARLIE CLIFFORD SMITH [b. Tuesday, December 21, 1920, in Rogers, Benton County, Arkansas]. The couple had three children.

Anna Belle was widowed a second time when, after 54 years of marriage, Charlie passed away in August 1997 in Wichita, Wichita County, Kansas. Anna Belle passed away more than 10 years later in January 2008.