Orville logging in,
My Champion research is currently in southern New Jersey.
Emeline Champion b 1832 near Tuckahoe, married Charles Smith b 1829 in
Philadelphia. Her parents were Nathaniel Champion and Mary Layton. There is a
record of a Nathaniel Champion who married a Margaret Layton. I'm not sure if
these are the same. Emeline is supposed to have a Lenni-Lenape grandmother.
I don't know if she was married to a Champion or a Layton. It is also rumored that
Emeline spent her later years as a "healer" in the Pine Barrens and was called
"Granny
Smith". I calculate this to be between 1911 and 1924, since Charles died in 1911,
when their home was in Middlesex County. I also think Charles and Emeline were
married in Camden in 1850 by Rev. J. W. Hickman. I have not identified the church.