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Surnames: Chance, Stephens, Johnson
Classification: Query
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Curtis Chance was born 1795 in PA, He married Violet Stephens in Harrison County, Ohio.
Their first son, Hugh Chance (b. 1825 Jefferson County, Ohio) was my great grandfather.
They traveled to Putnum County, Illinois and lived there until the gold rush and moved to
Monrovia, California where he died. The children stayed behind in Putnum. Curtis
had a son with Mary Blood first (Samuel) and then 8 children with Violet and when she
passed away in the 1840's, married again and had another child. Some of Curtis
and Violet's children were: Hugh, John, Frederick, Mary, and Eleanor.
Hugh Chance married (first) Hannah Bush and had Cynthia A, Mary Etta, Ruth Adelia and
Rebecca Josephine. When Hannah died in the late 1860's he married Anna Catherine
Shering Boatman and they had two children: Grace & Hugh Chester - both born in Cowley
County, Kansas.
Hugh Chester Chance married Edna Mary Johnson - both became Chiropractors and lived in
Davenport, Iowa. They had three sons: Hugh Emery, M. Dean and Levern Chester.
Jo