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dee_burrisI'm back to work on that branch of the family.
Due to some family history notes compiled by my grand uncle, Russell Ellington Balding, I have some new leads. (We always called him Uncle Linky.)
The notes were provided to me by my first cousin, once removed. Some of the information has proven to be untrue, and some has been accurate, but I have run ~ temporarily ~ into a dead end.
All of it has made me dig deeper into some useful but under-utilized resources.
From Linky's notes, I thought I might find a news article about an accident suffered by my 3rd great grandmother, Elizabeth Harris Chapin.
According to the notes, she and my great grandmother, Hattie Belle Chapin, were involved in a buggy accident when Hattie was four months old. Elizabeth was seriously injured, and those injuries led to her death.
I emailed the Old Fort Genealogical Society a couple of days ago about searching for an old news clipping.
In less than an hour, I had my answer. Elizabeth Chapin did die from injuries suffered in an accident, but not one involving a buggy. She fell down some stairs. The woman at the OFGS also said that what I previously thought was Elizabeth's date of death - 30 Oct 1887 - was actually the date of her burial. She died 4 Oct 1887.
The researcher wondered why there would be such a delay in her funeral. The only thing I could think of was getting all the family rounded up.
But that kind of delay doesn't seem likely, particularly given the limitations on preservation of bodies during that era. I'll be interested in the publication date of the news clippings - including her brief obit - when I get them in the mail.
Uncle Linky's notes also say that there was speculation that Elizabeth Harris was born Elizabeth Pancoast, and after her father died, Sally Miller married James Elisha Harris.
I do know that Elizabeth is referred to in historic documents as E H Chapin, but I will explore the Pancoast angle also.
I thought I hit pay dirt with Willard N Chapin, and in a way, I did. I started looking harder to find him after Uncle Linky's notes corroborated some unsourced information I had seen about Willard on the internet.
All of the adult men in Nathaniel Foster Chapin's family, excluding George and Ward Chapin, are listed in the 1889 City Directory for Fort Scott, KS.
According to Uncle Linky's notes, Willard Chapin b 4 May 1865 Olean N.Y. Moved with family to Kansas about 1882. m Dee ___. Buried in Calif. Date of death missing. His 4 daughters were living in San Luis Obispo, Calif. when last heard of.
I finally found a record of Willard's marriage. He married Delana L Rowland on 25 Apr 1888 in Ft. Scott, Bourbon Co., KS. She was called Dee.
I haven't found Willard in any census with his family yet. I did find Dee Chapin, the proprietress of a rooming house in San Luis Obispo, in the 1910 and 1920 censuses. She was born in Missouri on 26 Sep 1864.
The 1910 census said that Dee was the mother of six children, five of whom were living at the time of the census. I have only been able to account for four of the daughters - Helen Chapin Gardner, divorced and living with her mother in 1920; Icy Chapin Justus, married to Felix Orlando Justus and the mother of four sons; Rosetta Chapin Baxter; and Margaret Chapin.
Icy Chapin died on 1 Mar 1959 in Santa Clara Co., CA. Rosetta Chapin died on 9 Aug 1980 in San Joaquin Co., CA.
Dee Chapin died on 19 Aug 1921 in San Luis Obispo, CA, and is buried in San Luis Cemetery, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Co., CA.
I still don't know when or where Willard died, or where he is buried. He's going to be another brick in the wall for me.
But I'm getting closer...
Due to some family history notes compiled by my grand uncle, Russell Ellington Balding, I have some new leads. (We always called him Uncle Linky.)
The notes were provided to me by my first cousin, once removed. Some of the information has proven to be untrue, and some has been accurate, but I have run ~ temporarily ~ into a dead end.
All of it has made me dig deeper into some useful but under-utilized resources.
From Linky's notes, I thought I might find a news article about an accident suffered by my 3rd great grandmother, Elizabeth Harris Chapin.
According to the notes, she and my great grandmother, Hattie Belle Chapin, were involved in a buggy accident when Hattie was four months old. Elizabeth was seriously injured, and those injuries led to her death.
I emailed the Old Fort Genealogical Society a couple of days ago about searching for an old news clipping.
In less than an hour, I had my answer. Elizabeth Chapin did die from injuries suffered in an accident, but not one involving a buggy. She fell down some stairs. The woman at the OFGS also said that what I previously thought was Elizabeth's date of death - 30 Oct 1887 - was actually the date of her burial. She died 4 Oct 1887.
The researcher wondered why there would be such a delay in her funeral. The only thing I could think of was getting all the family rounded up.
But that kind of delay doesn't seem likely, particularly given the limitations on preservation of bodies during that era. I'll be interested in the publication date of the news clippings - including her brief obit - when I get them in the mail.
Uncle Linky's notes also say that there was speculation that Elizabeth Harris was born Elizabeth Pancoast, and after her father died, Sally Miller married James Elisha Harris.
I do know that Elizabeth is referred to in historic documents as E H Chapin, but I will explore the Pancoast angle also.
I thought I hit pay dirt with Willard N Chapin, and in a way, I did. I started looking harder to find him after Uncle Linky's notes corroborated some unsourced information I had seen about Willard on the internet.
All of the adult men in Nathaniel Foster Chapin's family, excluding George and Ward Chapin, are listed in the 1889 City Directory for Fort Scott, KS.
According to Uncle Linky's notes, Willard Chapin b 4 May 1865 Olean N.Y. Moved with family to Kansas about 1882. m Dee ___. Buried in Calif. Date of death missing. His 4 daughters were living in San Luis Obispo, Calif. when last heard of.
I finally found a record of Willard's marriage. He married Delana L Rowland on 25 Apr 1888 in Ft. Scott, Bourbon Co., KS. She was called Dee.
I haven't found Willard in any census with his family yet. I did find Dee Chapin, the proprietress of a rooming house in San Luis Obispo, in the 1910 and 1920 censuses. She was born in Missouri on 26 Sep 1864.
The 1910 census said that Dee was the mother of six children, five of whom were living at the time of the census. I have only been able to account for four of the daughters - Helen Chapin Gardner, divorced and living with her mother in 1920; Icy Chapin Justus, married to Felix Orlando Justus and the mother of four sons; Rosetta Chapin Baxter; and Margaret Chapin.
Icy Chapin died on 1 Mar 1959 in Santa Clara Co., CA. Rosetta Chapin died on 9 Aug 1980 in San Joaquin Co., CA.
Dee Chapin died on 19 Aug 1921 in San Luis Obispo, CA, and is buried in San Luis Cemetery, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Co., CA.
I still don't know when or where Willard died, or where he is buried. He's going to be another brick in the wall for me.
But I'm getting closer...
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Date: 2013-07-18 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-19 01:26 am (UTC)Almost broke a sweat on this one.
Relative of Rosetta Chaplin by marriage
Date: 2017-09-14 06:46 pm (UTC)Re: Relative of Rosetta Chaplin by marriage
Date: 2017-09-15 02:05 pm (UTC)Direct descendant of Rosetta Chapin
Date: 2017-10-26 12:08 am (UTC)My question for you is about the parents of Nathan Foster Chapin our mutual distant great grandfather. I've tried several times to trace it back and I keep getting lost in a sea of Chapins. Is the Fort Scott Nathan/iel F. Chapin the great grandson of the patriot Lt. Abner Chapin of Rowe, MA whose son is Abner Chapin (1775-1841) and first wife Huldah Foster? There's a small gap where his potential father Nathan Foster Chapin Sr. lived in Canada so I only have his birth record in MA, his tombstone in Ontario and a mention of Nathan, his brother Ambrose and his sisters in the will of his father, Abner Chapin Jr/ the third (b. 1775). Please email me especially if you've already covered this in your extensive blog. Thanks, Best, a fellow family enthusiast. edabe2@ufl.edu
Re: Direct descendant of Rosetta Chapin
Date: 2017-10-26 11:57 am (UTC)"Page 1
Nathanial Foster Chapin my grandfather was born and raised in Ridgebury Penn on Nov 9th(?) 1827 and died in Fort Scott Kanasas Jan 23rd 1897 of dropsy of about 18 months standing.
Demontell Foster (N F Chapin's mother maiden name) his father's name being Joel Chapin. (Elizabeth Harris NF's wife)
N F Chapin's grandfather was one of seven brothers who came to America from Scotland and settled in Vermont (supposedly).
Joel Chapin, NF Chapin's father, left Ridgebury Penn to go to Vermont in company with another gentleman who left the train at Elmira, NY. Joel Chapin, NF Chapin's father, was never heard of again. (To visit Joel Chapin's father.)
Cyrus was a mere baby, his mother just convalescing when Joel left for Vermont.
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Joel Chapin was in his time considered a very prosperous man. It has been spoken of in the family of an incident of NF and his brother trading brocade vests, Joel liking NF's the better.
He wore black broadcloth coat and pants, brocade vest and a black silk kerchief about his neck.
NF had (brothers and sisters) Marion, Rebecca and Unice and Orley (Arley?) who died in the Civil War Army of homesickness.
I have not found a Demontell Foster, but I did find Joel Chapin married to Adeline Foster, on page 249 of The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 (publ. 1893), digitized by Google Books, and linked here.
I don't have a date of death for Joel Chapin, but there's an Ancestry Family Tree that gives his date of death as 17 Aug 1863, but no place. That date does not fit in with EC Shephard's narrative above, as Cyrus Chapin (Nathaniel's son) would have been 10 years old then, not a baby. Nathaniel's child who would have been a baby in 1863 would have been George. I tend to place more value in EC's narrative than the unsourced tree,and so would tentatively place the year of death for Joel Chapin circa 1854/55, as Cyrus was born on 2 Dec 1853.
However, there is a one year discrepancy in EC's notes about Nathaniel F Chapin's year of death. Information I received by email from Cheney Witt Chapel Funeral Home in Fort Scott confirms Nathaniel Chapin's burial in Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Scott, but date of death on the record is one year later - 23 Jan 1898.
So the line of descendancy I have for Nathaniel F Chapin from Deacon Samuel Chapin of Hampden Co., MA goes like this:
Samuel Chapin/Cecily Penny
Japhat Chapin/Abilene Cooley
Samuel Chapin/Hannah Sheldon
Caleb Chapin/Catherine Dickinson
Joel Chapin/Sarah Burke
Solomon Chapin/Rebeca Porter
Joel Chapin/Adeline Foster
Nathaniel F Chapin
I'm sending you email with this information also.
Great to "meet" you!
Dee