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Surnames: Barnum, Chapin
Classification: Query
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Persis Chapin based on census images for Village of Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio seems
to have been born about 1803. It is currious as on most census forms she claims
Massachusetts as a birthplace. One one census form she claims New York. I believe her to
be the sister of my direct line (Joseph Barnum and Mary Electa Chapin. born 1805 New York)
Joseph and Electa had many sons and some of them at various points in their lives live in
the household of Persis and her husband after returning from the civil war. Electa and
Persis are always living next door or very close to each other. Joseph and Electa married
in Johnstown in Jan 1822 and in the spring previous also in 1822 Persis married Levi
Hoover Duke. ( his family roots being Virginia originally) Levi Duke is a name that has
been handed down through my family ( my great grandfathers name) so I am assuming this
Chapin/ Duke family and the Chapin/ Barnum family were related. I have found a handful of
Chapins in Licking !
County and some of the surrounding counties but have never been able to establlish a
connection. I evern contacted the Chapin society and tho' they had a few Mary Electa
Chapins they could find nothing. I am hoping Persis may provide the link that Electa has
not.
Electa died in 1865 and is buried in Johnstown, Persis is last documented in a 1870 or
1880 census (don't have my file with me right now) as a widow and then nothing more
is heard of her.