Mike,
I'll be happy to try and find those articles for you when I head down there. Right
now I'm thinking of heading down on Friday, but my friends and family may have other
plans as it's my birthday. If I can sneak away for the day though, that's where
I'm going. I took a closer look at the Andrew's in the 1880 census for
Mississippi Co. and found one of them was "studying medicine", I'm presuming
he eventually became Dr. A. W. Chapman. The other one was living with the family of
William J. Hedge. This second Andrew is listed as being a laborer, illiterate, and
married. I've got slim hopes that he's my guy, but he needs to be checked out.
I've not found any mention yet of who he married, or when or where for that matter.
Corey
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:19:26 -0400
From: "Michael L. Chapman"
To: CHAPMAN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CHAPMAN-L] Re: Lost in....Missour
Corey, Dr. A.W. Chapman is frequently mentioned in a book by Betty F.
Powell, "History of Mississippi County Missouri, Beginning Through
1972." I do not know his connection, if any, to my Chapman family, but
there are several branches of the family which I have not run down. It may
be that the "A" in his name stands for "Andrew." FYI much of this line
comes out of John Pendleton Chapman who died in Mississippi Co., MO, on 8
Aug 1884. He moved there from Union Co., KY after the death of his
wife. He apparently suffered financially after the Civil War and appears
to have been working as a sharecropper. The J.B. Chapman in Mississippi
Co., MO is his son, John Bell Chapman, sometimes called "Judge" Bell
Chapman. My line is through another of Pendleton Chapman's sons, Guy
Brooks Chapman, who died in Mississippi Co., MO, on 15 Oct. 1907. I have
several Chapman lines with substantial numbers of children in Mississippi
County, MO in the late 1800s, so if you see a Chapman there, he was
probably somehow related to my bunch. Anything you find there I would love
to have. I have been told that there are at least two articles in the
local paper about Guy Brooks Chapman -- one of them about how he got drunk
and ran the Baptist preacher out of town, and a second where he "got
religion" and joined the First Christian Church. The story I was told by
my great aunt was that Guy Brooks Chapman was a Catholic who married a
Baptist and they compromised and joined the Christian Church. I believe
that this was the G-rated version of the story. I still have close
relatives in Cape Girardeau, MO and Paducah, KY, so keep in touch. Maybe
we can organize a reunion someday.
Mike Chapman
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