Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Capers, Rev. T. Stacy October 1, 1888 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  REVEREND T. STACY CAPERS was born in Arcadia, Louisiana, 
October 1, 1888.  He was the older child of Martha Caroline 
(Underwood) and Burnside Capers.  His father was an Elder in 
the Presbyterian Church, Superintendent of the Sunday 
School, and for a number of years, president of the First 
National Bank of Arcadia.  He had one own sister, Ruth, 
married to Carl Goff, of Eldorado, Arkansas; three 
half-brothers, Dr. R. L. Capers, of Bellefonte, 
Pennsylvania; William Kenneth Capers, of Chicago, and 
Burnside Capers, of Bellefonte Academy; four half-sisters, 
Clara Yarborough, who died in infancy; Eula Maude, married 
to Reginald Hightower, of Arcadia; Lenoir Capers, of State 
College, Pennsylvania, and Helen Capers, of Chicago.  Mr. 
Capers received his early education in the public schools of 
Newman, Georgia, where he made his home after the death of 
his mother.  Here he resided in the home of relatives, Dr. 
and Mrs. James Stacy.  Mr. Capers was a namesake of the 
Reverend Dr. Stacy and it was under the influence of this 
Presbyterian divine that he felt the call to the ministry.  
Dr. and Mrs. Stacy were like parents to him and made 
provision for his education both at home and abroad.  After 
finishing the public school he was graduated from the Donald 
Fraser Preparatory School of Atlanta.  He matriculated at 
the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi 
Delta Theta Fraternity, Inter-Society Debater and a winner 
of the University loving cup in his class oratorical 
contest.  The following year, together with his sister, he 
was sent to Macon, Georgia, and was transferred to Mercer 
University, while his sister attended Wesleyan College.  At 
Mercer, he represented his literary society as debater and 
was a member of the official staff of the college newspaper 
as business manager of "The Orange and Black."  After he 
received his bachelor degree from Mercer University he took 
post graduate work at Grove City College, Princeton 
University and summer school work at the University of 
Paris.  In September, 1913, he entered Princeton Theological 
Seminary where he was a member of the Friars Club.  He was 
graduated from the seminary in 1916, at which time he was 
awarded an honorary fellowship which provided expenses for a 
year of study abroad.  The war prevented him from taking 
advantage of this opportunity, but after the war Mr. Capers 
spent some time in travel and study in Europe and the Holy 
Land.  During this trip he visited the Continent and the 
British Isles as well as Egypt and also attended the Passion 
Play at Ober Ammergau.  For the past ten years, Mr. Capers 
has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of 
Hollidaysburg, the historic old church which is the mother 
of Presbyterianism in the Juniata Valley.  He was called to 
this church when he was acting as assistant to Dr. Maitland 
Alexander, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of 
Pittsburgh, where he had served for three years.  Under his 
pastorate the membership of the Hollidaysburg Church has 
grown from 311, in 1921, to more than 450.  Just recently it 
celebrated a threefold anniversary of the life and work of 
the church and Sunday School by the completion of a $40,000 
improvement program and the dedication of a new pipe organ 
with tower bells and memorial harp.  The only other church 
with which he has been identified as minister was the 
Community Church, at Maywood, New Jersey.  June 22, 1911, 
Mr. Capers was united in marriage to Miss Annie Keene 
Hedges, of Savannah, Georgia.  She was a daughter of Annie 
Willingham Malone and James Keene Hedges, formerly of 
Decatur, Alabama.  Their family consists of three boys: T. 
Stacy Capers, Jr., a student at Mercersburg Academy, 
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; Fred Wallace, a student at 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and Keene Hedges, 
a pupil in the Hollidaysburg Public School; and two girls, 
Ruthane and Martha Caroline, also pupils in the 
Hollidaysburg schools.  In the Presbytery of Huntingdon, Mr. 
Capers has served for a number of years as a member of the 
Program and Field Activities Committee, first in the 
position of Every Member Canvas Director and second as 
Director of Missionary Education.  He has also served the 
Presbytery in the capacity of Moderator during the church 
year of 1929 and 1930.  He has been active in the work of 
the Synod of Pennsylvania, having been a member of the 
Executive Commission for two years and, for the past three 
years, a member of its council in which he is now serving as 
chairman of the Finance Committee of the Synod.

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