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07-09-2012, 09:14 PM
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Interesting. My web research also finds no link for dad to baseball, always described as "schemer" or "clerk for steamboat company" etc--but could have been ballplayer a few years earlier. Good luck.
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07-09-2012, 09:26 PM
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07-09-2012, 09:42 PM
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While the writer states that he has not "validated" this information, he states that Truman's father was born in 1897. That being the case, that would not be him on the t206.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/persons/messages/453.html
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07-09-2012, 09:50 PM
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As a genealogy addict, history buff, and baseball fanatic, (and Capote FAN), this thread intrigues me.... This type of post is exactly what this forum is about: baseball cards and the hidden gems that exist out in the open.
I look forward to following this thread and contributing what I can.
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07-09-2012, 10:08 PM
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I'm a member of Ancestry.com, and have been doing quite a bit of research on my own family over the past few months.
I just did a little digging, and from what I can tell, it looks like Capote's father was Arch Persons IV, born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1897 and died in 1981. If this is true, then he was too young to be playing in the SL in 1909. His father however, appears to have been Arch Persons III, born in 1866, and died in 1917. It is possible, looking at the card, that the Arch Persons on the card, was Capote's grandfather (the picture does appear to be an older man). It is also conceivable that Arch III, if he was a baseball player, could've played baseball in Cuba, which would match with Arch IV's birthplace. I've also found census records for Capote's mother, but nothing connecting her with Arch Persons yet. It's too late for me to continue digging tonight, as I have to get to bed, but I'll do some more digging on Ancestry.com tomorrow evening and see what I come up with. Steve Last edited by Steve D; 07-09-2012 at 10:15 PM.
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07-09-2012, 10:39 PM
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If you search Truman Capotes birth certificate it is recorded that his father's name was Julian A. Persons. dave
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07-09-2012, 10:52 PM
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According to this bio of Truman's grandmother Mabel K. Persons, Truman;s grandfather was a unerversity professor. Not likely he went on to be a professional ballplayer:
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/st...20792490.shtml Although grandma Mabel, according to the article, did live for a time in Havana, with her two youngest sons, all three of her sons appear to have been born in Alabama, including her eldest son who was Tru's father. Tru's mother Lilly, in later years, married a Cuban businessman, Joseph Garcia Capote who adopted Tru and whose name Tru took, thus likely explaining the erroneous claim that Tru's father was born in Cuba. Last edited by brickyardkennedy; 07-09-2012 at 11:42 PM.
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