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Georgia Genealogy Trails "Where your Journey Begins" |
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Two Rome Boys Enter West
Point
15 Feb 1911; Paper: The Columbus Enquirer-Sun
"They are cousins and are Nephews of J. N. King, of Floyd County"
Washington, D.
C., Feb. 14. Clifford Barrington King, Jr.,
and James Newphew Caperton, of Rome, have
successfully passed entrance examinations for admission to the West Point Military Academy and will enter the institution
next month. The boys are first cousins and are nephews of J. N. King, a leading citizen of Rome. So far as
is known, it is the first case on record, where two Georgia boys so closely related by blood have entered
West Point in the same class. Clifford King, was appointed by Congressman Gordon Lee and James Caperton was named
by Senator Bacon. [Submitted by Pam Rathbone]
S.B. Sale, of Floyd county, will give
$5 to the mother exhibiting at the Rome fair the greatest number of her own sons, no less than twelve. Should two
or more enter equal numbers the money is to be equally divided among them.
