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Chapman Family History, Part IV

Phebe Jane (CHAPMAN) JARRETT^Δ (1816-1886)

112EA. Phebe Jane Chapman^Δ was born on September 4, 1816, in Greenup County, Kentucky. She married Andrew Jarrett between 1848 and 1850. He had reportedly been married to Elizabeth Medoris, had as many as three children, and divorced in 1848. Phebe and Andrew had at least five children together:

--	Mar[ian] M. Jarrett	(1837-1838)	--	--
--	James M. Jarrett	4 Jun 1844	4 Dec 1930	(86)
--	David C. Jarrett	(1846)	(> 1870)	(> 23)
112EA1.	Mary Matilda JarrettΔ	21 Aug 1850	1 Jul 1927	(76)
112EA2.	Benjamin [H]. Jarrett	8 Mar 1852	2 Sep 1920	(68)
112EA3.	Hannah JarrettΔ	16 Mar 1854	26 May 1889	(35)
112EA4.	Henry C. Jarrett	(1853-1854)	(> 1860)	(> 6)
112EA5.	Hiram E. Jarrett	16 Sep 1858	18 Mar 1928	(69)

When Phebe was around two years old (circa 1818), her family moved from Greenup County, Kentucky, north across the Ohio River to Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio, where her family lived about 15 years. Around 1834 the family moved about 230 miles west to Green Township, Madison County, Indiana.

Andrew's prior marriage to Elizabeth Medoris was on March 2, 1837, in Hancock Township^[Grave], where they settled in Union Township. In 1840 the family included a boy and girl (Marian) under the age of 5, and a young woman in her late teens, perhaps a sister or sister-in-law.^{[Cen 1840]} Andrew and Elizabeth divorced on August 18, 1848.^[Grave]

Phebe and Andrew married around 1849 and continued their family in Union Township. In 1850, in addition to three children, the family hosted 12-year-old Sylvanus C. Harris. At the time the farm was valued at $1,000.^{[Cen 1850]}

Union Township was subsequently divided into Bucks, Vernon, and Center Townships in 1853, and in 1880 the family farm was enumerated as Greenfield Post Office, Center Township. The family farm was then worth $7,000.^{[Cen 1860, 1870]}

Andrew Jarrett died on December 6, 1870, and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Maxwell, 5 miles north of Greenfield town. He was 56 years old, but the age on his headstone states that he was 55 years, 11 months, and 5 days—an age that gives his birth as January 1, 1815.^[Grave]

After Andrew's death, Phebe moved in with daughter Mary (Jarrett) Clark and her family in Center Township.^{[Cen 1880]}

Phebe Jane (Chapman) Jarrett died 15 years after Andrew on May 28, 1886, and was buried in New Lancaster Cemetery, Tipton County, Indiana. She was 69 years old, but her headstone states her age as 68 years, 8 months, and 24 days.^[Grave]

John Reeve CHAPMAN (1818->1900)

112EB. John Reeve Chapman was born on March 4, 1818, in Greenup County, Kentucky. He married Elmira A. Taylor on September 30, 1841, in Ogle County, Illinois, west of Chicago. They had two daughters but both died as toddlers in July 1845:

112EB1.	Sarah Ann Chapman	25 Aug 1842	19 Jul 1845	(2)
112EB2.	Electa J. Chapman	26 Jan 1844	22 Jul 1845	(1)

When John was a baby his family moved from Greenup County, Kentucky, north across the Ohio River to Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio, where his family lived about 15 years. Around 1834 the family moved about 230 miles west to Green Township, Madison County, Indiana.

At right about the age of 20, John made his first attempt to leave home and move further west, finally succeeding in reaching north-central Illinois in June 1838, settling in Bureau County where he and his younger brother Albert were enumerated in the 1840 census.^{[Cen 1840]}

After their marriage, the Chapmans settled further north into Ogle County where they were enumerated in Eagle Township in the 1850 census, Pine Rock, Marion Township, in the 1860 census, and Lafayette Township in both the 1870 and 1880 censuses.^{[Cen 1850-1880]} By 1900 they had moved a little ways south to Franklin Grove Village, China Township, Lee County, Illinois.

Having no surving children of their own, nieces and nephews often lived with the Chapmans as noted in the censuses. These included Mary, Charles, and Anetta Chapman^{[Cen 1870]}; Eli Chapman and Emerson Chapman^{[Cen 1880]}; and Jesse White^{[Cen 1900]}.

The following excerpt, I'm embarrassed to say, is from a copy of a copy of a biography of John Chapman. As such, I'm not entirely sure where the original is (it appears to be a who's who of Lee County, Illinois) but here is a lightly editted version:

John Reeve Chapman died on July 2, 1902, in Franklin Grove Village. He was 84 years old.

Elmira A. (Taylor) Chapman reportedly died two months later on September 18, 1902. She was 82 years old and they had been married 60 years.

Allen CHAPMAN⁵ (1819-1890)

112EC. Allen Chapman⁵ was born, along with his twin brother Albert, on November 6, 1819, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. As a teen his family moved northwest into Indiana, settling in Green Township, Madison County by 1834. There he married Elizabeth Davis, who was about a year older, on May 30, 1839. They had six children:

112EC1.	John Chapman	(1843)	(> 1850)	(> 7)
112EC2.	Harriet J. Chapman6	17 Apr 1844	25 Jun 1936	(92)
112EC3.	Elizabeth Ellen ChapmanΔ	26 Mar 1848	28 Jul 1888	(40)
112EC4.	Mary E. Chapman	(1848)	(> 1850)	(> 2)
112EC5.	Allen Frank Chapman	28 Jul 1858	20 Oct 1894	(36)
112EC6.	Anderson Acton ChapmanΔ	(1861)	13 Aug 1913	(52)

By about 1858 the Chapman family left Indiana for Iowa and settled in Wapello County in the southeast corner of the state along the Des Moines River. (Allen's father had earlier moved to Louisa County, along the Mississippi River by 1855). Their last child, Anderson, was born in Wapello County.

Civil War Service

When the war broke out Allen's younger brother Benjamin was the first to enlist in October 1861. Then, just a month after his daughter's wedding, Allen's two youngest brothers both enlisted in Company "F" of the 19th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment in August 1862.

Allen enlisted a month later on September 27, 1862, with the 37th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Agency, Iowa, for a term of three years. The regiment was known as the "Graybeard Regiment," because it was formed mostly of men over the age of 45 and exempt from military service who were designated to chiefly take up guard and garrison duties. Allen's enlistment papers noted he was a 43 year-old farmer—actually he was a month shy of his 43rd birthday—and therefore one of the younger men of this regiment. Allen was assigned to Company "E". He was further described as having been born in Scioto County, Ohio, standing 5'-10" with blue eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion.

Two months later the regiment mustered in on December 15, 1862, at Camp Strong, just south of Muscatine, Iowa, along the Mississippi River. The Iowa 37th Regiment's first deployment was to St. Louis, Missouri in January 1863 where it took up guard duty at a prison camp. In April of that year the regiment helped repulse a rebel attack and afterward took on the duty of guarding the railroad between St. Louis and Jefferson City until July. During this time son-in-law John Jackson Fisher³ enlisted in the 7th Iowa Cavalry Regiment.

In July the regiment redeployed to Alton, Illinois, just up the river from St. Louis where again it guarded rebel prisoners. There they stayed until January 1864 for a six-month tour at Rock Island, Illinois, just opposite from Davenport, Iowa. The regiment then got the call to move down the Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee in June 1864. There they guarded the railway between Memphis and La Grange and came under attack by rebel bands. They lost a few men to battle but lost many more to sickness in the wet conditions of southwestern Tennessee.

Two months later the regiment moved back north to Indianapolis in August where the regiment split for tours of guard duty in Indianapolis and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Pvt. Chapman was promoted to Corporal on October 24, 1864.

In May 1865 the regiment was reunited in Cincinnati and then mustered out on May 24 at Davenport, Iowa. Throughout the "Graybeards" tours of duty, 3 men were killed in action and 145 died of disease.

Allen filed for his military pension as an invalid on September 7, 1883, while in Maryland.

Allen Chapman died on April 13, 1890, in Iowa at the age of 70. He was buried at Ashland Cemetery in Wapello County.

Two months after Allen's death, Elizabeth filed for Allen's pension in Iowa on June 16, 1890.

Elizabeth (Davis) Chapman died three years after her husband on April 27, 1893. She was in her early 70's. She was also buried at Ashland Cemetery.

Albert CHAPMAN^Δ (1819->1850)

112ED. Albert Chapman^Δ was born on November 6, 1819, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio, along with his twin brother Allen. He married Sabra (Duncan/Dawson) Jarrett, who had been briefly married in 1838 to Enos Jarrett, on November 27, 1839, in Hancock County, Indiana. They had five children:

112ED1.	William A. Chapman	11 Nov 1842	25 Mar 1865	(22)
112ED2.	Ellen Chapman	4 Apr 1847	4 Apr 1848	(1)
112ED3.	Rebecca Ann ChapmanΔ	14 Sep 1849	9 Mar 1919	(69)
112ED4.	Ruth Chapman	13 Jul 1852	2 Nov 1853	(1)
112ED5.	John G. Chapman	27 Mar 1855	(> 1880)	(> 25)

Albert Chapman is believed to have died in the late 1850s, after his son's birth in 1855 and before the 1860 census, most likely in Indiana. He would have been only in his late 30s.

Sabra (Duncan/Dawson) Chapman went on to remarry to Levi^{[Cen 1860]} or Irvin Harding^{[Cen 1870,1880]} on April 22, 1860, in Clinton County, Indiana, and resided in Owen Township with Sabra's three surviving Chapman children, Rebecca and John, and Rebecca Duncan, who appears to be her mother.^{[Cen 1860]}

During the Civil War, Sabra lost her elder son William in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign (June 1864-March 1865) in Virginia, Grant's 10-month seige that ultimately dislodged Lee from the Confederate capital at Richmond and led to Lee's surrender.

By 1870, the Hardings moved west to southeast Iowa and settled in Wyacondah Township, Davis County.^{[Cen 1870]} Later they continued southwest to Spring Creek Township in Coffey County, Kansas, settling by 1880. Daughter Rebecca and her Barnett family lived with them.^{[Cen 1880]}

Alfred CHAPMAN^Δ (1824-1908)

112EF. Alfred Chapman^Δ was born on June 26, 1824, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. He married Beulah Taylor on March 22, 1846, in Ogle County, Illinois. Beulah was the sister of Alfred's eldest brother's wife Elmira who had married five years previously. Alfred and Beulah had six children, four surviving through 1900.^{[Cen 1900B]}

Alfred and Beulah divorced about 1863 and Alfred remarried to Sarah Ann (Lloyd) Godfrey, reportedly on November 23, 1865, in Mahaska County, Iowa. Alfred and Sarah and had at least four more children.

112EFA.	Henry Chapman	(1847)	--	--
112EFB.	Rhoda Anna ChapmanΔ	Jan 1850	(<1920)	(<71)
112EFC.	Sarah A. Chapman	(1852)	--	--
112EFD.	Jane Chapman	(1854)	(1863)	(9)
112EFE.	Charles William ChapmanΔ	19 Aug 1855	27 Nov 1917	(62)
--	Jennie Godfrey	(1854)	(< 1900)	(< 46)
--	Isabella Godfrey	(1857)	(< 1900)	(< 43)
--	George Godfrey	(Jan 1860)	(< 1900)	(< 40)
--	Francis Edwin Godfrey	31 Mar 1862	19 Apr 1894	(32)
112EFF.	Ira Sylvester Chapman	9 May 1865	11 Apr 1911	(45)
112EFG.	Ulysses S. Grant ChapmanΔ	13 Apr 1868	16 Jun 1938	(70)
112EFH.	Sherman Chapman	19 Feb 1870	23 Sep 1949	(79)
112EFI.	Fremont Chapman	18 Jan 1874	4 Dec 1972	(98)

After Alfred and Beulah's marriage in Ogle County, Illinois, the Chapman family settled in Taylor Township by 1850.^{[Cen 1850]} By 1860 they had moved slightly southeast into Lee County, settling in the Ogle Station/Ashton area.^{[Cen 1860]}

Family accounts of Alfred's and Beulah's divorce relate that the two split after Beulah, in a fit of rage, struck one of the children, likely young Jane who would have been about 9 years old at the time. She allegedly struck the child so hard that the child died. Alfred immediately pulled up stakes, took the children, and moved to Iowa. Beulah remained in Ashton, Lee County, Illinois, through 1900.^{[Cen 1880B,1900B]} Beulah's sister Elmira, who married Alfred's eldest brother, was allegedly not permitted to visit Beulah afterward.

Following Alfred and Beulah's divorce, Alfred remarried to Sarah Ann (Lloyd) Godfrey, reportedly on November 23, 1865, in Mahaska County, Iowa.

Sarah had previously married Isaac W. Godfrey on May 3, 1853, in Connecticut,^{[Marr 1853]} Isaac's home state and the birth place of Sarah's parents. They had four children together: Jennie, Isabella, George, and Francis Edward Godfrey. During the Civil War, Isaac served in Company D of the 39th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, which mustered in on October 11, 1861, six and a half months before son Francis Edward was born. How Isaac and Sarah came to be separated is unknown, but Isaac returned to Connecticut and remarried to Julia Way Lamson. Daughter Isabella lived with her father in Connecticut while Jennie lived with her mother in Iowa in 1870.

Isaac W. Godfrey lived on until April 24, 1897. He is buried at Center Cemetery in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Isaac was about 65 years old.

The Chapmans moved further west, reportedly settling in Marion, Linn County (northeast of Cedar Rapids) by the time of Ira's birth. Come Grant's birth in 1868, the Chapmans resided east of Omaha in Cass County.

By 1870 the Chapman family had again moved southwest into Fremont County, settling in Manti/Farragut, Fisher Township (south-southeast of Omaha). There, Alfred (misspelled as "Albert" in the census) and Sarah lived next door to Sarah's daughter Jennie (Godfrey) and Stephen "Van Beth" (later as "Van Cott" in the 1880 census). Stephen and Jennie were enumerated with Alfred and Sarah's younger sons Edwin, Ira, and Grant Chapman living with them. Elder son Charles was living with his elder sister Sarah and her husband Henry E. Perry in Hamburg, to the southwest.^{[Cen 1870]}

The Chapmans continued on in Fisher Township through 1880 with the boys, Charles through Fremont, and Sarah's son Francis, all together. Sarah's daughter Jennie also contined to live next door with her two Van Cott daughters, but Stephen was gone and she had taken the name Whitting and was divorced.^{[Cen 1880]}

The Chapmans again relocated further west to Nebraska, settling on Iriving Street in Blue Springs Village, Gage County, by the 1900 census. (Note that the photo above was taken in neighboring Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska.) Sadly, in 1900, the Chapmans reported that only four of Sarah's eight children survived, indicating that the four from her first marriage to Isaac W. Godfrey had passed away.^{[Cen 1900A]} In 1910 Sarah reported that four of nine children had survived.^{[Cen 1910]}

Alfred Chapman died on October 13, 1908, in Gage County, Nebraska. He was 84 years old.

Sarah A. (Lloyd Godfrey) Chapman died 11 years later in Gage County at the age of 82 or 83 years. She is buried in Blue Springs Cemetery.

Hannah Evaline (CHAPMAN) EAKS^Δ (1828-1907)

112EH. Hannah Evaline Chapman^Δ was born August 20, 1828, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. She was likely named for her maternal grandmother Hannah Reeves. She married Josiah Elvis Eaks, a native of North Carolina, on December 26, 1850. They had nine children:

112EH1.	Mary Margery Eaks	8 Dec 1852	3 Jun 1930	(77)
112EH2.	John Andrew EaksΔ	8 Aug 1854	26 Jun 1933	(78)
112EH3.	Phoebe Arminda Eaks	25 Jul 1856	2 Jun 1934	(77)
112EH4.	Irvin Elvis Eaks	27 Mar 1858	5 Jan 1935	(76)
112EH5.	Martha Emily Jane EaksΔ	29 Aug 1860	15 Jan 1947	(86)
112EH6.	Flora Alice Eaks	10 Jul 1862	28 Sep 1936	(74)
112EH7.	Zuliah Isabell EaksΔ	18 Feb 1864	6 Jun 1947	(82)
112EH8.	William Henry Eaks	29 Apr 1866	16 Mar 1941	(74)
112EH9.	Charles Elmer EaksΔ	2 Jun 1870	24 Jan 1938	(67)

The family started out in Indiana and by 1854 settled in Macon County, Missouri, where they lived through 1864. By 1866 they moved north into Iowa and settled in Grandview, Louisa County, where her parents and younger brother Madison lived. In the 1870s they moved westward to Kansas, settling by 1880 in Graham County in an area later associated with the town of Palco, just east across the county line in Rooks County.^{[Cen 1880]}

Josiah Elvis Eaks died in 1886 in Palco. He was about 58 years old.

After Josiah's death, Hannah lived with her son William in Graham County, next door to son Irvin's family.^{[Cen 1900]}

Hannah Evaline (Chapman) Eaks died 21 in 1907, also in Palco. She was about 79 years old.

Benjamin Franklin CHAPMAN (1830-1912)

112EI. Benjamin Franklin Chapman was born on September 1, 1830, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. He married a woman named Susan F. on February 7, 1851, and had one son eight months later, probably in Hancock County, Indiana. Susan died 12 days after childbirth. They had only been married eleven months.

Benjamin remarried six years later on January 11, 1857, in Muscatine County, Iowa, to the widow Elizabeth (Shellabarger) Snyder. They had three more children together:

112EI1.	Eli R. Chapman	26 Oct 1851	1919	(67)
--	Sarah Katherine Snyder	31 Jan 1852	30 Jun 1926	(74)
112EI2.	Emmett Chester Chapman	5 Dec 1857	2 Dec 1925	(67)
112EI3.	Martha Evelyn Chapman	(3) Jul 1859	13 Oct 1938	(79)
112EI4.	Mary Chapman	(1868)	(<1880)	(<12)

After Susan's death, Benjamin followed his uncle William P. Chapman to Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, Iowa. William had moved there around 1854 and Benjamin joined their family around 1855 or early 1856. Notably absent at this time was son Eli.^{[Cen 1856]}.

A year later Benjamin and Elizabeth (Shellabarger) Snyder married and started their blended family in Muscatine County, settling in Cedar Township, just west of Seventy-Six Township.^{[Cen 1860,1870]}

During the Civil War, Benjamin enlisted with the Union Army's 11th Iowa Regiment Volunteer Infantry, Company A. He was 31 years old at the time and first of four brothers to serve.

After the war, Benjamin returned to Muscatine County, Iowa.

Elizabeth (Shellabarger Snyder) Chapman died on June 6, 1894, near Adams, northwest of Muscatine and is buried at Cranston Cemetery in Seventy-Six Township, West-Southwest of Muscatine. She was 70 years old.

Come the 1900 and 1910 censuses, Benjamin was enumerated as a widowed inmate at the Iowa Veterans' Home in Linn Township (likely near Marshalltown), Marshall County. Apparently sometime later he moved in with his step-daughter, Sarah Katherine (Snyder) Bowlby in Muscatine.

Benjamin Franklin Chapman died on May 7, 1912, at the home of his step-daughter, Sarah Katherine (Snyder) Bowlby. He was 81 years old. Benjamin is buried with Elizabeth at the Cranston Cemetery in Seventy-Six Township.

Henry Young CHAPMAN^Δ (1832-1921)

112EJ. Henry Young Chapman^Δ was born on October 14, 1832, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. He married Louisa Crider by 1857 and had six children. Years after Louisa's death in 1890, Henry remarried to Annie Fisher.

112EJ1.	Sarah Asenath ChapmanΔ	9 Nov 1857	11 Sep 1901	(43)
112EJ2.	Buana Vista Chapman	1859	--	--
112EJ3.	Clara Electra ChapmanΔ	14 Nov 1862	13 Dec 1925	(62)
112EJ4.	Edith A. Chapman	1864	--	--
112EJ5.	Minnie Mabel ChapmanΔ	Aug 1868	8 Mar 1957	(88)
112EJ6.	William H. ChapmanΔ	(1876-1877)	--	--

The Chapmans lived near Henry's younger brother Madison in Grandview Township, Louisa County, Iowa, in 1860. There Henry and Madison Green both worked as carpenters.^{[Cen 1860]}

The family moved about 36 miles south to Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, where Henry continued work as a carpenter.^{[Cen 1870]}

Next they moved about 90 miles northwest to Liberty Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, where Henry worked as a mill wright in 1880.^{[Cen 1880]}

The Chapmans continued to the northwest corner of the state and settled on Township 96, Range 40, Section 16, in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Center Township, O'Brien County, by 1885. Henry worked as a carpenter and only the two youngest children remained at home.^{[Cen 1885]}

Louisa (Crider) Chapman died on January 29, 1890, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Primghar, which is in the southwest corner of Center Township, O'Brien County.^[Grave] She was 53 years old and they had been married about 42 years.

Henry remarried 18 years later to Annie Fisher on September 30, 1908, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.^{[Mar 1908]} He was 75 years old and a resident of Selinsgrove, and she was about 54 years old and a resident of California. They settled at 301 East Pine Street in Selinsgrove.^{[Cen 1910,1920]}

Henry Young Chapman died on December 2, 1921, in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. He was 89 years old.^[Grave]

Madison Green CHAPMAN^Δ (1836-1868)

112EL. Madison Green Chapman^Δ was born on November 16, 1836, in Madison County, Indiana. He married Harriet "Hattie" Lavina Chenoweth, a native of Ohio, on October 6, 1857. They started their family in Grandview, Louisa County, Iowa, and had three children:

112EL1.	Emerson Franklin Chapman	Aug 1858	(>1940)	(>81)
112EL2.	Mary/Luella ChapmanΔ	(Mar) 1860	--	--
112EL3.	Annette "Nettie" Chapman	29 Dec 1862	17 May1929	(66)

The Chapmans lived nearby Madison's elder brother Henry in Grandview Township, Louisa County, Iowa, in 1860. There Madison and Henry both worked as carpenters.^{[Cen 1860]}

Madison and his younger brother Charles both enlisted with Company F of the 19th Iowa Regiment Volunteer Infantry, probably on August 25, 1862, when the regiment mustered in. At that time Hattie was pregnant and only four months from giving birth to their daughter Nettie.

Madison Green Chapman reportedly died on February 5, 1868, at the age of 31. He is buried at Grandview Cemetery with a marker that commemorates his service in Company F, 19th Iowa Infantry.^[Grave]

Hattie was widowed at the young age of 27 after 10 years of marriage and the children were aged 5, 7, and 9. Son Emerson went to live with his mother's kin, Joel and Susan Chenoweth,^{[Cen 1870A]} and sisters Mary (Luella?) and Nettie went to live with their uncle John R. Chapman.^{[Cen 1870B]}

Hattie remarried to William A. Hoefer, on August 8, 1876, in Muscatine County, Iowa.^{[Marr 1876]} William immigrated from Germany in 1858, was naturalized in 1872, and worked in Muscatine at a saw mill and later as a carpenter. Daughters Luella and Nettie rejoined their mother by 1880.^{[Cen 1880]} By 1885, William and Hattie had bought a home at 1009 Oregon Street, in the southwest part of Muscatine, near Musser Park on the Mississippi River.^{[Cen 1885, 1900]}

William A. Hoefer died on November 14, 1904, in Muscatine County. He was 74 years old and is buried at Greenwood Cemetry to the north of their home on Oregon Street.^[Grave] William and Hattie had been married 28 years.

After William's death, Hattie stayed on at their home on Oregon Street.^{[Cen 1910]}

Harriet Lavina (Chenoweth Chapman) Hoefer died on May 26, 1915, in Muscatine County, Iowa. She was 74 years old and is reported to be buried next to William in Greenwood Cemetery.^[Grave]

Charles Wesley CHAPMAN^Δ (1839-1916)

112EM. Charles Wesley Chapman^Δ was born on September 17, 1839, in Green Township, Madison County, Indiana. He married Nancy Jane Shasteen on December 30, 1858 and had five children.

112EM1.	Phoebe Evline Chapman	8 Oct 1859	25 Aug 1860	(10 mos.)
112EM2.	Lakin Edward Chapman	3 Nov 1861	12 Apr 1863	(17 mos.)
112EM3.	Ella May ChapmanΔ	28 Sep 1866	27 May 1933	(66)
112EM4.	Charles Willis ChapmanΔ	19 Nov 1869	6 Jun 1931	(61)
112EM5.	Oscar Leone ChapmanΔ	21 Feb 1877	7 Aug 1957	(80)

Charles moved to Grandview Township, Louisa County, Iowa, with his parents in 1855.

Three years later, Charles and Nancy Jane Shasteen wed on December 30, 1858. They were both 19 years old and probably started their family in Grandview Township. Their first two children died as toddlers.

Charles and his next elder brother Madison both enlisted with Company F of the 19th Iowa Regiment Volunteer Infantry, probably on August 25, 1862, when the regiment mustered in. Charles was 22 years old at the time.

After the war, Charles and Nancy had three more children. The first of these was reportably born in Mahaska County, to the west, and their last two sons were born in Muscatine County, probably at Grandview Township.

By 1870, Charles' elderly parents had moved in. Charles's mother died later that year and his father died in 1876.^{[Cen 1870]}

The Chapmans remained in Grandview until 1893 when they moved north to Muscatine, Muscatine County, and resettled at 1182 Fulliam Avenue.

Nancy Jean (Shasteen) Chapman died in Muscatine County, Iowa, on May 3, 1899, one month short of her 60th birthday.

Charles Wesley Chapman died 17 years later on December 24, 1916, in Muscatine County. He was 77 years old.