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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, January 17, 1922, page 1

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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, January 17, 1922, page 1

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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, January 17, 1922, page 2

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  • £-<{ Iowa Circle, N.W., Washington, D. C. , January 17, 1922. Dear Mr. Kephart: Thanks for your recent letter and translation. The latter was adequate to give the essense of his communication, so as to enable me to reply properly, I shall request Herr: Gebhard: use the Roman script hereafter. Inclosed is another from Mannheim, which should not be difficult to handle. She may be a genealogist to whom the pdblic librarian handed my letter for reply. The massing New York clubman evidently did not appreciate that since- passage of the Volstead act the making of moonshine has been an enlarged "profession" on perhaps a more sordid basis with many unscrupulous characters going into the mountains to ply their trade. Anyway most New Yorkers flow too much at the mouth, and it may. be that this person thus got in bad. and was slain. Out of that city, many of Its inhabitants are utterly at sea. Nevertheless, his effort must be deemed a compliment to the imaginative power of your interesting volume (,that is poor construction, but you will gather the thought). Last Sunday I had an interesting interview with a Capehart of the North Carolina tribe, who lives at Vienna, Va. , near here. They have no connection with the other two Capehart lines thus far developed, altho I believe their immigrant ancestor was immediately related to the Kebharts, because the name begins with the "K" sound and not the "G". And this immigrant did not come by way of Penna. apparently, but by way of Earbadoes or Bermuda, as many of the southern English did. Here is their line, as I construct it: George (Kebhart) Capehart born about 1690-6, died about 1770; came to Bertie Co., N.C., about 1720, Married . One daughter married Peter Schrock; she born about 1722. Another daughter Mary may have remained single. SonsMichael, George, Jr.,. and John, born about 1726, 1728 and 1730, respectively. Michael died 1785 and George Jr. 1810, a very old man, in his eighties. John's death date not now known. Michael and George Jr. lines are quite fully known, but nothing yet, 'as far as I have seen, is known of that of John. However, this lady has many more papers, etc., that I have not had an opportunity to look at. Their headquarters were at Avoca, N.ET. , where they had plantations, negroes, etc., and were people of excellent standing. Their immigrant was one generation earlier than most of those at Philadelphia, exlcept the Johannes Gebhardt (Kephardt), born 1694, deacon of First Reformed Church, Phila., who is one of the two indicated as probably my ancestor. All the other immigrants at Phila. were of the next generations, having been born around 1710 to 1740. For some reason or other, this George evidently chose, intentionally or otherwise, to head for the Carolinas instead of thru Phila.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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