WILBUR-WILLIAM CAPPS/NORFOLK/NC Area born 1872
I am the great grandson of Wilbur Alva Capps, born in 1872 in "Norfolk, Va" according to his death certificate.Wilbur died in New York in 1944.His mother was listed as an Annie Belden (born Ohio) and his father a William Capps born in North Carolina.Numerous attempts to locate a birth record of Wilbur (including Virginia Vital statistics/LDS Library records of Norfolk births) have not borne any fruit.I am confident that if I can link Wilbur to his father, with the significant amount of materials on 1700 Capps, I'll jump back a century or two immediately.This "block" on Wilbur has lasted decaeds.HELP.PSCouper papers appear to reference a Wilbur but wrong one around the same time period.
Bob Schroeter