Mattie Simpson Capps Hamilton was the youngest of nine children born to James Allen Capps (1825-1870) and his wife Mary Esther Gardner (1830-1869) of Washington, St. Landry Parish, La. Her father was a riverboat captain. Although her grave marker notes her year of birth as 1869, she was born a year or two earlier. (The 1870 Federal Census, enumerated July 17, 1870, notes her age as 2 years; and the 1900 Federal Census gives her date of birth as August 1867.)
In late 1899 or early 1900 Mattie married William Wilson Hamilton (1863-1935) and the couple initially settled down on a farm in St. Martin Parish, La. There they had their first child, Anna Myrtle, born ca. 1900. Within a few years they had moved to Oklahoma where two more daughters were born: Mary Josephine (b. 1904) and Helen Louise (b. 1907). By 1910 the family had migrated as far west as Amarillo, Tex., where William Hamilton found work as a debt collector and later as a plumbing contractor. After William's death in 1936, Mattie remained in Amarillo. She died in her ninetieth year.
In late 1899 or early 1900 Mattie married William Wilson Hamilton (1863-1935) and the couple initially settled down on a farm in St. Martin Parish, La. There they had their first child, Anna Myrtle, born ca. 1900. Within a few years they had moved to Oklahoma where two more daughters were born: Mary Josephine (b. 1904) and Helen Louise (b. 1907). By 1910 the family had migrated as far west as Amarillo, Tex., where William Hamilton found work as a debt collector and later as a plumbing contractor. After William's death in 1936, Mattie remained in Amarillo. She died in her ninetieth year.
Mattie Simpson Capps Hamilton was the youngest of nine children born to James Allen Capps (1825-1870) and his wife Mary Esther Gardner (1830-1869) of Washington, St. Landry Parish, La. Her father was a riverboat captain. Although her grave marker notes her year of birth as 1869, she was born a year or two earlier. (The 1870 Federal Census, enumerated July 17, 1870, notes her age as 2 years; and the 1900 Federal Census gives her date of birth as August 1867.)
In late 1899 or early 1900 Mattie married William Wilson Hamilton (1863-1935) and the couple initially settled down on a farm in St. Martin Parish, La. There they had their first child, Anna Myrtle, born ca. 1900. Within a few years they had moved to Oklahoma where two more daughters were born: Mary Josephine (b. 1904) and Helen Louise (b. 1907). By 1910 the family had migrated as far west as Amarillo, Tex., where William Hamilton found work as a debt collector and later as a plumbing contractor. After William's death in 1936, Mattie remained in Amarillo. She died in her ninetieth year.
In late 1899 or early 1900 Mattie married William Wilson Hamilton (1863-1935) and the couple initially settled down on a farm in St. Martin Parish, La. There they had their first child, Anna Myrtle, born ca. 1900. Within a few years they had moved to Oklahoma where two more daughters were born: Mary Josephine (b. 1904) and Helen Louise (b. 1907). By 1910 the family had migrated as far west as Amarillo, Tex., where William Hamilton found work as a debt collector and later as a plumbing contractor. After William's death in 1936, Mattie remained in Amarillo. She died in her ninetieth year.
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