According to Myrtle June Capps Lovell who wrote in the “Heritage of Henderson County – Volume 1, Joseph Capps was the son of Abram Harris Capps and Pauline Sentell Capps and “Joseph Hamilton (Capps) was given the name of his maternal great-grandfather who was a commissioner and a Colonel in the Henderson County militia. He was also Captain of Company F. Second Regiment of the North Carolina Volunteers, in the Union Army during the Civil War. Joseph Capps was born 7 January 1893 and died 29 November 1950. His college education was interrupted when he was drafted in World War I. He resumed his studies and taught school for a short time. He worked in the automobile industry in Detroit. Joseph returned home to operate the farms for his ailing father. He remained a bachelor and was buried at Pleasant Hill.”
