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Chapman Family History, Part II

Reuben CHAPMAN (1783-1839)

112A. Reuben CHAPMAN was born in 1783 in Amelia County, Virginia. He married Nancy FUQUA on August 2, 1809 in Scioto County, Ohio. They had eight children:

Reuben CHAPMAN died on April 6, 1860 in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio and is buried at the Wheelersburg Cemetery in Scioto County. He was 78 years old.

Nancy (FUQUA) CHAPMAN lived on another 12 years and died in Porter Township on January 1st, 1872. She was 83 years old and is also buried at the Wheelersburg Cemetery.

John CHAPMAN (1791-1876)

112D. John CHAPMAN⁴ was born on February 11, 1791 in Amherst County, Virginia. As a child he moved to Kentucky and later Ohio. He married Mary "Polly" REEVE(S), a native of New York, in August 13, 1815 in Scioto County, Ohio and fathered 13 children:

Soon after John and Polly were married they started their large family with a brief stay in Greenup County, Kentucky where John and Polly were compelled to forfeit their homestead under the disputed lands acts and then moved down river to Porter Township in Scioto County, Ohio by 1819.

The next seven children were born in Porter Township in Scioto County and by 1834 they moved northwest into Indiana, resettling in Green Township, Madison County by 1836. After about 20 years and the children mostly grown and with families of their own, the clan moved further west into southeastern Iowa, settling around Grandview, Louisa County just across the Mississippi River by 1855. Come the 1870 census of Grandview, John and Polly were living with their youngest son, Charles, and John was noted as a retired physician.^{[Cen 1870]}

Mary "Polly" (REEVES) CHAPMAN died on 30 December 1870 in Louisa County, Iowa at the age of 74.

John CHAPMAN died six years later in Louisa County on 23 January 1876. He was 84 years old. Both John and Polly are buried at Grandview Cemetery.

Anderson CHAPMAN (~1793-~1843)

112E. Anderson CHAPMAN was born about 1793, likely in Amherst County, Virginia. He married twice, the second time to Mary PULLIAM, likely the sister of his younger brother Henry's wife, Frances, on October 13, 1830 in Gallatin County, Kentucky, down river from Cincinnati. By the 1840 census they settled a little further down river in Prestonville, Carroll County, Kentucky.

Anderson and Mary are not known to have had any children, however the 1840 census lists two girls and a boy between the ages of 5 and 10 years of age as well as a teenage boy (10-15). Family tradition states that Anderson and Mary made an agreement with his brother Henry and his wife, Frances, to "adopt" their third and fourth children.

Anderson CHAPMAN died about 1843 in Prestonville, Carroll County, Kentucky. He was about 50 years of age.

Henry CHAPMAN (1802-1880)

112I. Henry CHAPMAN was born on June 8, 1802 in Kentucky. He married Frances "Fannie" PULLIAM on October 3, 1827 in Gallatin County, Kentucky. They had eight children:

Family tradition states that Henry and Frances made an agreement with his childless brother Anderson and his wife (believed to be Frances' sister) to "adopt" their third and fourth children. Although the 1840 census shows children living with Anderson's family, all of Henry and Frances' children seem to be accounted for in the 1840 census.

Frances "Fannie" (PULLIAM) CHAPMAN died in 1843 in Prestonville, Carroll County, Kentucky. She was about 33 years old.

After Frances' death, Henry stayed on in Carroll County through at least the 1850 census. By the 1860 census, Henry appears to have followed his son Anderson to Schuyler County in northern Missouri where he is found in Lancaster, Liberty Township, just north of his son Anderson who then resided in Greentop, Prairie Township.

Later Henry is noted in the 1870 and 1880 censuses living with his daughter Phoebe (CHAPMAN) HITCHCOCK in Atalissa, Lake Township, Muscatine County, Iowa.

Henry CHAPMAN died 37 years later on August 10, 1880 in Muscatine County, Iowa. He is buried at the High Prairie Cemetery in Muscatine County. He was 78 years old.

William P. CHAPMAN (1804-1869)

112I. William P. CHAPMAN was born on August 25, 1804 in Greenup County, Kentucky. He married Joanna Baker HITCHCOCK on October 16, 1825 in Scioto County, Ohio. They do not appear to have had any children.

The CHAPMANs moved to Fall Creek Township in Madison County, Indiana by the 1850 census. By the 1856 census they had settled in Muscatine, Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, Iowa where they lived out the rest of their days.

William P. CHAPMAN died on February 27, 1869 in Muscatine County. He was 64 years old. He is buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Muscatine County and per his headstone was a war veteran who held the rank of major.

Joanna remarried to Appollos CONE on March 26, 1885 in Muscatine County.

Joanna (HITCHCOCK) CHAPMAN died 13 years later on April 3, 1892 and is buried in Muscatine County. She was 87 years old.