Marsha?
Hey...better late than never!!!!!!! :))
Mari
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At 06:13 PM 12/18/00 , Mashane wrote:
I think I need to go back to genealogy class 101. I've been
desperately
looking for the parents of my Orvis Chapman (b. 1811) for quite a few
years. Today I got an e-mail from somebody who saw my Chapman pictures on
the Lorain Co., Ohio web page. She wanted to know if her Asher Chapman
and mine were the same person. No, they aren't. But her Asher is the
right age to be the father of my Orvis. And he was in Lorain Co. in 1830,
1840 & 1850, where Orvis lived. I had picked Asher up on the census and
had the names of all his children except for two who were on the 1830
census. Well, since the male child was born between 1815 and 1820 I just
casually dismissed this family as a possibilty. It never occured to me
that Orvis might have already left the family home by 1830 and therefore
wouldn't have been on the census with them. Or that he might have been
born four years later than when I think he was. His wife was born in
1816. He could easily have been born in 1815.
It looks like I need to check out this family further. Anybody know
anything about Asher Chapman, b. abt 1796 in Massachusetts? His wife's
name was Polly. They lived in Amherst Twp. (Lorain Co.) The county
history says that Asher (spelled Ashar) came from New Marlborough,
Massachusetts and that he arrived in Sheffield (Ohio) in October 1815.
Marsha
(banging her head against her genealogy box)