Born 2 January 1852 in Blount County, Alabama; died 19 March 1928. Married Lou Mina “Mima” Thomas Sapp, with whom he had six sons and one daughter; after her 1901 death, remarried Sarah Owens. Four of his sons served in World War I; two of them, Grover and Ananias “Gus,” died in service, along with a stepson - a significant local WWI casualty story.
Appears in: Sapp Cemetery (Arkadelphia).
Notable descendants:
- His parents are documented, and they are not who this site expected: Capt. Benjamin Harrison Sapp Sr. (1813-1863) and Harriett Debell Ringo Sapp (1825-1902). This settles a question carried open here since 2026-08-06.
- Lila Amma Sapp Hogeland (1877-1968) - his daughter, who married into the family behind Hogeland Cemetery.
- Carter Versayle Sapp (1880-1942), Dallas Milton Sapp (1886-1959), Walter Henry Sapp (1887-1963), Benjamin J. “Bennie” Sapp (1889-1927), Grover T. Sapp (1893-1918), and Ananias Tudor “Gus” Sapp (1895-1917) - his six sons.
- Grover T. Sapp and Ananias Tudor “Gus” Sapp both died in World War I service.
- Myrtle Mae Sapp Faulkner (1907-2001) - granddaughter, via Carter Versayle Sapp. A real later-generation descendant, the kind this project’s pre-1850-birth-focused cemetery research has generally missed.
- Correction, 2026-08-12: an earlier version of this entry listed an eighth child, “Albert C. Sapp (1887-unknown).” No such child appears on Henry Clay Sapp’s memorial, which documents exactly seven - six sons and one daughter, matching this entry’s own description. That name has been removed as unsupported.
His father ran the hotel that became the Duffee House. Capt. Benjamin Harrison Sapp Sr. (1813-1863), son of John Sapp and Elizabeth King, was Justice of the Peace and Postmaster at Blount Springs before the war, and he and his wife Harriett operated the Goffe Hotel there - the same establishment Matthew Duffee later bought and renamed the Duffee House.
He commanded the “Blount County Tiger Boys.” Sapp was Captain of Company F, 29th Alabama Infantry. He died of smallpox on service at Mobile in 1863, and because of the smallpox the railroad refused to carry his body home to Blount County. A Mrs. Ann Curry gave up space in her own Magnolia Cemetery plot so he could be buried at Mobile, where he lies. His mother, per her own memorial, died the day he was born.
And his daughter married into the McPherson line. Mary Elizabeth Sapp (1845-1915) married Henry Grady Sanders (1844-1937) - a son of Edward Sanders and America McPherson Sanders, and therefore a grandson of Capt. George McPherson. Their children included Dr. Samuel Robert Sanders Sr. (1872-1955) and Harriette Debell “Hattie” Sanders Minter (1874-1964).