!Lived at Flat Top, WV. A kinsman wrote of him: "He wa s n ear sighted and was probably one of the most finished b oasters, or yarners in t he country. The tales he would te ll were miraculous and he repeated them s o much that he ac tually believed them himself. He would rather lie than e a t." (The Caperton Family, Bernard M. Caperton; 1973; p. 34)