Charles Capers Culpepper

Male, #35329, (26 Oct 1860 - 27 Jun 1927)

Parent*Francis Marion Culpepper (7 Mar 1834 - 25 Jul 1862)
Parent*Elizabeth Emory B. Haralson (25 May 1835 - 3 Nov 1871)
Charles Capers Culpepper|b. 26 Oct 1860\nd. 27 Jun 1927|p35329.htm|Francis Marion Culpepper|b. 7 Mar 1834\nd. 25 Jul 1862|p32456.htm|Elizabeth Emory B. Haralson|b. 25 May 1835\nd. 3 Nov 1871|p32457.htm|Rev. William H. Culpepper|b. 17 Oct 1813\nd. 22 Mar 1909|p32073.htm|Sarah Leslie|b. 15 Feb 1808\nd. 22 Jan 1849|p32074.htm|||||||

Birth*26 Oct 1860 Charles was born at Almond, Randolph Co., Alabama, on 26 Oct 1860. 
 He was the son of Francis Marion Culpepper and Elizabeth Emory B. Haralson. 
1870 Census*23 Aug 1870 Charles listed as a household member living with Elizabeth Emory B. Haralson on the 1870 Census at Chambers Co., Alabama. 33 f-Beat 13 p. 203 hh 14. 
Marriage*25 Oct 1891 He married Daisy Darling Tucker at Lee Co., Alabama, on 25 Oct 1891.1 
1900 Census*1900 Charles was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Cusseta, Chambers Co., Alabama. 39 m-Precinct 12 ED 15 sheet 2 line 3. 
1910 Census*1910 Charles was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census at Chambers Co., Alabama. 49 m-ED 32-6. 
Employment*circa 1912 He was employed circa 1912 at Chambers Co., Alabama. 
1920 Census*1920 Charles was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Chambers Co., Alabama. 58 m-ED 33/12/18. 
Death*27 Jun 1927 He died at Cusseta, Chambers Co., Alabama, on 27 Jun 1927. 
Burial*28 Jun 1927 His body was interred on 28 Jun 1927 at Cusseta City Cemetery, Cusseta, Chambers Co., Alabama.2 
Biography* Charles Capers Culpepper was the son of Francis Marion and Elizabeth Emory B. (Haralson) Culpepper. Mrs. John (Grace Culpepper) Fowke wrote:3

Papa's middle name was Capers.... He was named after a Methodist Bishop.

Capos Conley "Chip" Culpepper, II, a great-great grandson of William Henry and Sarah (Leslie) Culpepper, wrote:4

The good Bishop Capers, according ot the Methodist "Book of Discipline" was William Capers who was elected Bishop in 1846. His length of serivce is not recorded....

Charles was born on the eve of the Civil War. His parents were noted in the 1860 census in Almond P. O. District of Randolph Co., AL and this is where he is presumed to have been born. Charles was only eighteen months old when his father died in the War. Based on letters in Francis Marion Culpepper's Civil War file, his mother was living in Daviston, Tallapoosa Co., AL by 1863. And by the 1870 census, a nine year old "Charley" Culpepper was noted with his mother in the 1870 Chambers Co., AL census. A year later, his mother died. Mrs. John (Grace Culpepper) Fowke wrote:5

He told us his mother died when he was eleven years old and he was reared by his Uncle Kinchen "Kenny" Haralson, his mother's brother, and his wife, Aunt Molly.

Mrs. Fowke continued:3

My father... was a devout Christian, a saintly man. You would never meet a man that lived closer to God -- he truly walked with the Masters.... He was a farmer and a rural mail carrier. The modest farm was located between Cussetta and LaFayette, Alabama. After he sold it, it was known as "the Culpepper Place" for years.
Charles Capers Culpepper died at his home in Cusseta, Chambers Co., AL in 1927. He was 66 years old.6 

Family

Daisy Darling Tucker (22 Oct 1871 - 11 Mar 1943)
Children

Last Edited 6 Dec 2003

Citations

  1. Family Adventures, compiler, Early Alabama Marriages (36 vols.), Shreveport, Louisiana: J & W Ent., 1991, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN 976.1 V2e.
    p. 383.
  2. Margaret Parker Milford, A Survey of Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, Valley, AL: Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society, 1983.
    (1990) p 164.
  3. letter 28 Jan 1979
  4. e-mail message 4 Apr 1994
  5. letter 14 Feb 1979
  6. "C. C. Culpepper Dies in Cusseta," The LaFayette Sun (Chambers Co., AL) 29 Jun 1927, p. 1