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            Martha was also born in Rusk County, Texas. She married three times.

            She married Thomas Jefferson Mabra in 1881. He was the brother of George Washington Mabra who married her older sister Amanda. While she was pregnant with their third child, Jennie, Thomas Jefferson Mabra died.

            About 1890 she married Robert D. CAPPS and in 1891 their only child Clarence CAPPS was born. Robert died 2 years later in 1893. In Clarence Capps Social Security Application, dated in Guymon, Oklahoma in 1944 he states that he was born on February 23, 1889, and that his father was Robert D. Capps. In the 1900 census record his mother states he was born in 1891. His 1/2 sister Jennie was suppose to have been born in October, 1888. He could not have been born in 1889, but 1891. In addition, why was he in Guymon? His brother, Cleveland died in Guymon and his aunt Lydia had moved there in 1904. Did his mother move there also?

            The only other information we have at this time is that she married a man possibly named Charlie Mitchell and moved to Colorado, or California where she supposedly died in 1922.

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