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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881
Page 987
JOHN CAPPS was born December 16, 1810, in London, England. Came to America with his mother, brothers and sisters, arriving in Springfield, Illinois, in November, 1830. He was married there September 5, 1833, to Nancy Clements, who was born October 2, 1817, in Lincoln county, Kentucky. (She is a cousin of Mrs. Mathew Cloyd); in 1844, moved to Mt. Pulaski; about 1850, moved to Decatur, thence to Illiopolis, Sangamon County.
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