Capps, Sallie B. (Sallie Brooke), approximately 1865-1946

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Dates:

Birth 1865

Death 1946

Biographical notes:

Sallie Brooke Capps was prominent in Fort Worth educational, civic, and church activities. She helped organize the Fort Worth Kindergarten Association, was a regent of the College of Industrial Arts in Denton, Texas, a charter member of the Woman's Club, and a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. She was married to William Capps, a Fort Worth attorney and businessman.

From the description of Papers, 1869-1943. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 33019719

Sallie A. Brooke Capps, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Brooke, was born, spent her childhood, and was educated in Sherman, Texas. She attended North Texas Female College, later named Kid Key College.

In 1887, she married William Capps, and they made their home in Fort Worth. William Capps became a prominent attorney, businessman, and the editor of The Fort Worth Record . William and Sallie B. Capps had three children: Alba (Mrs. Henry G. Lucas), Mattie Mae (Mrs. Frank M. Anderson), and Count Brooke.

Sallie B. Capps was actively involved in the promotion of education during much of her life. She helped to organize the Fort Worth Kindergarten Association and was also its president from 1905 until 1919. For many years she was a vice president of the Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers Associations. From 1911 until 1929, Sallie B. Capps served as secretary for the board of regents of the College of Industrial Arts, now Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. A dormitory there was named in her honor.

Sallie B. Capps was a longtime member of and dedicated volunteer for St. Andrew's Episcopal Chirch in Fort Worth. She was also a charter member of the Fort Worth Woman's Club.

In 1910, the Capps family purchased a home at 1120 Penn Street, Fort Worth, which has since become a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark called the Pollock-Capps House. Mattie Mae Capps continued to live in this house after her marriage to Frank M. Anderson. Sallie B. Capps died there in 1946 at the age of eighty-one.

Sources: Fort Worth Star-Telegram(Fort Worth), 16 July 1946. Makers of Fort Worth(Fort Worth), 1 September 1914. Schmidt, Ruby, ed., Fort Worth and Tarrant County: A Historical Guide(Fort Worth: Fort Worth Historical Society, 1984).

From the guide to the Sallie B. Capps Papers GA196-198., 1869-1943, (Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library)