Phebe Chandler1

Family
Marriage-Possible*She may have married, as his first wife, Jacob Leonard, son of Solomon Leonard and Sarah Chandler, about the time he came of age and possibly in Weymouth as was "supposed" in the Leonard Memorial source. Whether or not Jacob really did marry before his marriage to Susanna King is not known and the question is answered as "unlikely" in the Chilton Mayflower source. The Mayflower source also discounted the birth of a son Joseph to the first marriage stating that Jacob's will did not mention a son Joseph even though the purported son was living and having physical problems. The source further noted it as "much more likely he is the known son" of Jacob's brother John Leonard.2,1,3 

Family

 Jacob Leonard b. c 1647, d. bt 9 May 1717 - 19 Dec 1717

Citations

  1. [S1139] Manning Leonard, Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants, downloaded from the Boston Public Library eBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Manning Leonard, 1896), #4., Jacob Leonard (Solomon), pages 38-43, identifying Jacob's first wife as a supposed daughter of Roger Chandler, one of the "three sisters". Hereinafter cited as Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater.
  2. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Note: Volume 2, Parts I and II (1975), Chilton and More, were revised and replaced in 1997 by this Volume 15, Chilton and More. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), Person# 17, Jacob Leonard, pages 22-23. Hereinafter cited as James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five).
  3. [S413] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985 and 1992), page 461, noting date before 1670, and possibly in Weymouth. Hereinafter cited as New England Marriages: Prior to 1700.

Roger Chandler1

d. between 1658 and 3 October 1665
Family
Marriage*21 July 1615He married Isabella Chilton, daughter of James Chilton and Susannah Furner, on 21 July 1615 in Leyden, South Holland Province, Holland.1 
Death*between 1658 and 3 October 1665He died between 1658 and 3 October 1665, probably in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony.1 
Land Grant*3 October 1665 On 3 October 1665, 150 acres of land in Plymouth Colony were granted to Sarah Chandler, Mary Chandler and Martha Chandler, the three daughters of Roger Chandler, who had been granted the original purchase rights before his death.2 
Relationship Note*Roger Chandler's grandson, John Leonard, married a Sarah who was identified incorrectly in the Leonard Memorial source as Roger's daughter. John's wife Sarah's maiden name has not been identified. John Leonard was the son of Sarah Chandler and Solomon Leonard, and a grandson of Roger Chandler, so it was John's mother, and not his wife, who was Roger's daughter.3,4 
Land Grant*12 July 1692 On 12 July 1692, 10 acres of meadow at Cranberry Meadow in Taunton North Purchase was laid out to John Leonard of Bridgewater in rights of a court grant to the three daughters of Roger Chandler deceased.3 

Family

 Isabella Chilton b. 15 Jan 1586/87
Children 1.Mary Chandler1 b. a 1622
 2.Martha Chandler1 b. a 1622
 3.Sarah Chandler+1 b. b 15 Oct 1622, d. b 27 Oct 1675
 4.Samuel Chandler1 b. b 15 Oct 1622

Citations

  1. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Note: Volume 2, Parts I and II (1975), Chilton and More, were revised and replaced in 1997 by this Volume 15, Chilton and More. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), Person# 2, Isabella Chilton, page 5. Hereinafter cited as James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five).
  2. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 4, Sarah Chandler, pages 8-9.
  3. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 16, John Leonard, pages 21-22.
  4. [S1139] Manning Leonard, Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants, downloaded from the Boston Public Library eBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Manning Leonard, 1896), #3., John Leonard (Solomon), pages 37-38, identifying Sarah, John's wife, as supposed to have been one of the three sisters or daughters of Roger Chandler. Hereinafter cited as Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater.

Samuel Chandler1

b. before 15 October 1622
Family
Father*Roger Chandler1 d. bt 1658 - 3 Oct 1665
Mother*Isabella Chilton1 b. 15 Jan 1586/87
Birth*before 15 October 1622Samuel Chandler was born before 15 October 1622 in Leyden, Holland.1 
Death*He probably died young.1 

Citations

  1. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Note: Volume 2, Parts I and II (1975), Chilton and More, were revised and replaced in 1997 by this Volume 15, Chilton and More. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), Person# 2, Isabella Chilton, page 5. Hereinafter cited as James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five).

Samuel Chandler1

d. 12 September 1748
Family
Marriage*12 July 1694He married Mercy Perkins on 12 July 1694 in Massachusetts Bay Province (New England).1,2 
Land RecordsSamuel Chandler of Bridgewater purchased land with dwelling and barn in Bridgewater from Isaac Leonard and his wife Deliverance, also of Bridgewater. Their transaction was dated 29 February 1705/6, but likely should have been dated either 28 February or 01 March of that year.3 
Death*12 September 1748He died in 12 September 1748 in Bridgewater.4,5 

Family

 Mercy Perkins b. 1671, d. 19 May 1752
Child 1.Jonathan Chandler6,1 b. 8 May 1699

Citations

  1. [S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family Register. Note: page numbers differ slightly between publications used in our research, including FHL copy, Google Books, Boston Public Library eBooks online and our personal library reprint published by Heritage Books. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., original publication date was 1840; reprinted for the third and fourth times in 1970 and 1975; first reprinted in 1897 by Henry T. Pratt, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; originally printed in 1840 by Kidder and Wright, Boston, Massachusetts), Chandler, page 136. Hereinafter cited as History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
  2. [S413] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages: Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985 and 1992), page 144, indicating uncertainty as to where in the Province they resided or married. Hereinafter cited as New England Marriages: Prior to 1700.
  3. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Note: Volume 2, Parts I and II (1975), Chilton and More, were revised and replaced in 1997 by this Volume 15, Chilton and More. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), Person# 18, Isaac Leonard, pages 23-24. Hereinafter cited as James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five).
  4. [S413] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages: Prior to 1700, page 144.
  5. [S836] New England Historic Genealogical Society, compiler, downloaded from Google Books, Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. In two Volumes: Volume I. Births and Volume II. Marriages and Deaths. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1916), Deaths, Volume II, page 447. Hereinafter cited as Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850.
  6. [S836] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850, Births, Volume I, page 72.

Sarah Chandler1

b. before 15 October 1622, d. before 27 October 1675
Family
Father*Roger Chandler2 d. bt 1658 - 3 Oct 1665
Mother*Isabella Chilton2 b. 15 Jan 1586/87
Birth*before 15 October 1622Sarah Chandler was born before 15 October 1622 in Leyden, South Holland Province, Holland.3 
Marriage*circa 1640She married Solomon Leonard circa 1640 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts (Plymouth Colony). The Bridgewater History source noted he left a widow "Mary" at his death in "1686". This statement is believed to be incorrect on both counts. Later research by the editors of "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations" has confirmed to our satisfaction that "Sarah Chandler" was Solomon Leonard's widow when he died before "1671". Additionally, we learn from the same source that Solomon's son, Solomon, was the Solomon who died in 1686 leaving a wife Mary.4,5,1 
Residence*1643Sarah and Solomon Leonard were still living in Duxbury in 1643 when Solomon appeared on a list of men able to bear arms.3 
Residence1658/59Sarah and Solomon Leonard were still living with their family in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, in 1658/59.3 
(Daughter) Land Grant3 October 1665 On 3 October 1665, 150 acres of land in Plymouth Colony were granted to Sarah and her two sisters, the three daughters of Roger Chandler who, before his death, had been granted the original purchase rights. Then on 1 May 1671, Samuel Leonard of Bridgewater confirmed that his deceased father, Solomon Leonard, had given 50 acres to "my brother John Leonard", likely representing their mother Sarah's one third share of the 150 acres.3 
(Wife) Deathbefore 1 May 1671Sarah became a widow when Solomon Leonard died before 1 May 1671.6,3 
Death*before 27 October 1675She died before 27 October 1675 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts (Plymouth Colony).3 
(Widow) Probate27 October 1675The administrator's bond on the estate of Sarah's husband Solomon Leonard, deceased, was not posted by their son Samuel Leonard until 27 October 1675. The probate records do not mention the widow of Solomon Leonard, which implies that Sarah had already died by that date.3 

Family

 Solomon Leonard b. c 1610, d. b 1 May 1671
Children 1.Samuel Leonard+3,7 b. c 1643, d. a 30 Nov 1720
 2.John Leonard+3,7 b. c 1645, d. b 21 Nov 1699
 3.Jacob Leonard+3,8 b. c 1647, d. bt 9 May 1717 - 19 Dec 1717
 4.Isaac Leonard+9,10 b. c 1650, d. bt 10 Dec 1717 - 9 Mar 1719/20
 5.Solomon Leonard+7 b. a 1650, d. 14 May 1686
 6.Mary Leonard+7 b. a 1650

Citations

  1. [S744] Maltby Family Genealogy Website, online at http://home.earthlink.net/~jamaltby1/index.html. Compiled by John A. Maltby of Redwood City, California, who we believe has presented his own research; the website contains thorough source information and appears to be an excellent resource for the Massachusetts Colony Washburn Family History. The website includes additional family lines as well. Regarding the Washburns, the only family line on the website reviewed by this researcher, much of the information presented appears to be in line with information already obtained and is believed to be accurate. For that reason, additional information obtained only from the Maltby Family Genealogy website has been included in this collection. Information provided, unless additional proof has been offered, has not yet been verified and cannot be guaranteed. Hereinafter cited as the Maltby Family Genealogy Website.
  2. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Volume 15, James Chilton and Richard More. Note: Volume 2, Parts I and II (1975), Chilton and More, were revised and replaced in 1997 by this Volume 15, Chilton and More. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997), Person# 2, Isabella Chilton, page 5. Hereinafter cited as James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five).
  3. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 4, Sarah Chandler, pages 8-9.
  4. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 4, Sarah Chandler, pages 8-9 and noting that Mitchell's Bridgewater History "confounds son Solomon with Solomon."
  5. [S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family Register. Note: page numbers differ slightly between publications used in our research, including FHL copy, Google Books, Boston Public Library eBooks online and our personal library reprint published by Heritage Books. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., original publication date was 1840; reprinted for the third and fourth times in 1970 and 1975; first reprinted in 1897 by Henry T. Pratt, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; originally printed in 1840 by Kidder and Wright, Boston, Massachusetts), Leonard, pages 244-248, noted he left a widow "Mary" at his death in "1686". This statement is believed to be incorrect on both counts. Later research by the editors of "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations" has confirmed to our satisfaction that "Sarah Chandler" was Solomon Leonard's widow when he died before "1671". Additionally, we learn from the same source that Solomon's son, Solomon, was the Solomon who died in 1686 leaving a wife Mary. Hereinafter cited as History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.
  6. [S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, Leonard, pages 244-248, with incorrect year stated as 1686.
  7. [S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, Leonard, pages 244-248.
  8. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 17, Jacob Leonard, pages 17-18.
  9. [S896] Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, James Chilton and Richard More of the Mayflower (Five), Person# 18, Isaac Leonard, pages 23-24.
  10. [S1139] Manning Leonard, Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants, downloaded from the Boston Public Library eBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. (Southbridge, Massachusetts: Manning Leonard, 1896), #5., Isaac Leonard (Solomon), pages 44-45. Hereinafter cited as Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater.

William S. Chandler1

d. before 11 June 1880
Family
Birth*William S. Chandler was born in Virginia.2 
Marriage*19 March 1874He married, as her first husband, Mahalia Catherine Hall, daughter of Matthew M. Hall and Adaline M. Shipman, on 19 March 1874 in Audrain County, Missouri.1 
Death*before 11 June 1880He died before 11 June 1880 when his widow was enumerated on the 1880 census in Nine-Mile Prairie, Callaway County, Missouri.2 

Family

 Mahalia Catherine Hall b. Dec 1859, d. 1931
Children 1.Albert Chandler2 b. 1876
 2.William Sheldon Chandler3 b. 26 Aug 1880, d. 26 Jul 1962

Citations

  1. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, Mahalia C. Hall and William S. Chandler, transcribed as "Chandley", married in Audrain County on 19 March 1874. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  2. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Mahalia Chandler, Nine-Mile Prairie, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: 677; Page: 636D; Enumeration District: 034. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  3. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, William Sheldon Chandler, Memorial# 38453293. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.

William Sheldon Chandler1

b. 26 August 1880, d. 26 July 1962
Family
Father*William S. Chandler1 d. b 11 Jun 1880
Mother*Mahalia Catherine Hall1,2 b. Dec 1859, d. 1931
Birth*26 August 1880William Sheldon Chandler was born on 26 August 1880, probably in Audrain County, Missouri.1 
Marriage*25 December 1901He married Daisy F. Barney on 25 December 1901 in Mr. Olive Presbyterian Church, Vandalia, Audrain County, Missouri. It was a double wedding with the marriage of William's half-sister, Emaline Heaton and Alfred Lankster Toliver.3,4 
Death*26 July 1962He died on 26 July 1962 at age 811 
Burial* and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida.1 

Family

 Daisy F. Barney b. 1880, d. 10 Aug 1973

Citations

  1. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, William Sheldon Chandler, Memorial# 38453293. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Mahalia Catherine (Hall) Heaton, Memorial# 23734009.
  3. [S1756] U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of William S. Chandler and Daisy "Chandler" at Mt. Olive Presbyterian Church in Vandalia, Audrain County, Missouri on 25 December 1901. Hereinafter cited as U.S. Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970.
  4. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, Daisy F. Barney and William S. Chandler, married in Audrain County on 25 December 1901. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.

Fred Chaney1

b. 18 May 1889
Family
Birth*18 May 1889Fred Chaney was born on 18 May 1889 in Grant County, Indiana.1 
Marriage*22 July 1911He married, as her first husband, Della Thornburg, daughter of Thomas L. Thornburg and Emma E. Emery, on 22 July 1911 in Indiana. Della was 14 years old and Fred was age 22.1 
Annulment*May 1912The marriage of Fred Chaney and Della (Thornburg) Chaney was annulled in May 1912.2 
Annulment11 June 1912The marriage of Fred Chaney and Della (Thornburg) Chaney was annulled on 11 June 1912.3 
Annulment29 June 1912The marriage of Fred Chaney and Della (Thornburg) Chaney was annulled on 29 June 1912.4 
Divorce*December 1912Fred Chaney and Della (Thornburg) Chaney were divorced on December 1912.5 

Family

 Della Thornburg b. 10 Dec 1896, d. 24 Dec 1970

Citations

  1. [S1566] Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of Della Thornburg of Hartford City, Indiana, age 19, born on 10 December 1892 in Blackford County, Indiana, daughter of Thomas Thornburg and Emma Emory, and Fred Chaney of Hartford City, Indiana, age 22, born on 18 May 1889 in Grant County, Indiana, son of Alex Chaney and Mary LaForge, married on 22 July 1911 in Indiana, United States, citing page 522 and referencing FHL Film# 001672565. Hereinafter cited as Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001.
  2. [S2834] Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Filed, May 1912 in Indiana, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Leader-Tribune, (Marion, Indiana), Sunday, May 19, 1912, Page 16, (Downloaded on May 30, 2025), reporting under the headline, "Young Wife Files Action", reporting that after admitting perjury to obtain a license and then, after living with her husband for less than a year, discovering that she was unhappily married because she was too young to realize the importance of the duties devolving upon her, that Della F. Chaney had begun suit in the circuit court for the annulment of her marriage to Fred Chaney; that her complaint stated she was only fourteen years old at the time of her marriage on July 22, 1911, and that she was incapable from want of age of contracting such marriage; that her mother, Emma Emory-Thornburg, was dead and the whereabouts of her father, Thomas Thornburg, was not known; that in making application for a marriage license she gave her age as past 18 saying she was born December 19 1892; that the bridegroom said he was 22 years old; that they were married by Reverend Bruce Leonard; that in the annulment papers the plaintiff sets up that her husband left her May 11, 1912, and that they had not lived together since; that Chaney was the son of Mrs. Alex Chaney and was a glassworker. Hereinafter cited as Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Filed, May 1912 in Indiana.
  3. [S2837] Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Decision Delayed, 11 June 1912 in Indiana, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, The Star Press, (Muncie, Indiana), Wednesday, June 12, 1912, Page 5, (Downloaded on May 30, 2025), under the headlines, "Girl in 'Teens' Sues for Divorce"; "Says She Was Only Fourteen When She Married Fred Cheney" and crediting Hartford City, Indiana, June 11, reporting that Judge Sturgis was not accommodating in the case where fifteen-year-old Della Thornburg-Cheney was suing her husband, Fred Cheney, twenty years old, for annulment of their marriage contract; that the court reserved decision; that the evidence was such that there was a possibility of charges of perjury being filed against the young plaintiff and subordination against the husband; that in her complaint, Mrs. Cheney asked annulment of her marriage on the ground that she was not old enough to enter into such a contract at the time the ceremony was performed, claiming she was but fourteen years old; that in making application for a license, however, the bride-to-be swore that her age was almost nineteen; that on the witness stand she testified that her husband-to-be had urged her to swear falsely to her age, claiming that she would have to make affidavit to that effect before the clerk would issue a license; that Judge Sturgis ordered the prosecutor to appear in the case and after hearing the evidence took the case under advisement. Hereinafter cited as Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Decision Delayed, 11 June 1912 in Indiana.
  4. [S2836] Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Refused, June 1912 in Indiana, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, The Star Press, (Muncie, Indiana), Sunday, June 30, 1912, Page 2, (Downloaded on May 30, 2025), under the title, "June Court Term Is Ended" and crediting Hartford City, Indiana, June 29, reporting that Judge Sturgis spent much time cleaning up the docket; that among the cases he disposed of was the annulment suit of Della Thornburg-Chaney against Fred Chaney, in which the 16-year-old wife sought to have her marriage set aside on the ground that she was not old enough to enter into such a contract when she married Fred Chaney; that in applying for a license the girl swore she was nineteen years of age and in her complaint she set out that she was not yet fourteen at that time; that in view of the fact that the girl perjured herself, it was thought for a time that she would be held answerable, but after considering the case for a week, it was dismissed from the docket on June 29; that the court rendered judgment for the defendant for costs and refused to set aside the marriage contract. Hereinafter cited as Della F. (Thornburg) Chaney vs. Fred Chaney Annulment Refused, June 1912 in Indiana.
  5. [S2835] Fred Chaney vs. Della (Thornburg) Chaney Divorce Filed December 1912 in Indiana, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, The Star Press, (Muncie, Indiana), Wednesday, December 4, 1912, Page 2, (Downloaded on May 30, 2025), reporting that Fred Chaney was charging his wife, Della Thornburg-Chaney, with adultery and cruel and inhuman treatment; that they were married on July 25, 1911 and separated on October 5, 1912; that they were married when Mrs. Chaney was only fifteen; that shortly afterward she filed suit to have the marriage annulled, claiming that she was not old enough to enter into such a contract at the time of their union; that she was threatened with prosecution for perjury upon that admission in court, after it was proved that in applying for a license she had sworn that she was of legal age; that the annulment had been refused. Hereinafter cited as Fred Chaney vs. Della (Thornburg) Chaney Divorce Filed December 1912 in Indiana.

James Chanley1

Family
Marriage*He married Nancy Noblit.1 

Family

 Nancy Noblit
Child 1.William Chanley1 b. 1824, d. 1908

Citations

  1. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, William Chanley, Memorial# 17866106. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.

William Chanley1

b. 1824, d. 1908
Family
Father*James Chanley1
Mother*Nancy Noblit1
Birth*1824William Chanley was born about 1824 in Tennessee.1 
Marriage*He married first Millie Dockery, daughter of Abel Dockery and Clarissa __?__.2,1 
(Husband) Death21 May 1890William became a widower when Millie (Dockery) Chanley died on 21 May 1890 at about age 56.2 
Marriage*1896He married second, as her third husband, Mary Jane (Curtis) Jones Pace in 1896 in Dubois County, Indiana.1,3 
(Husband) Death1 April 1898William became a widower for the second time when Mary Jane (Curtis) Jones Pace Chanley died on 1 April 1898 at age 54.3 
Death*1908He died in 1908 in Fredonia, Crawford County, Indiana,1 
Burial* and was buried with his first wife in Fredonia Cemetery, Fredonia.1,2 

Family 1

 Millie Dockery b. 1834, d. 21 May 1890

Family 2

 Mary Jane Curtis b. 1 Nov 1843, d. 1 Apr 1898

Citations

  1. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, William Chanley, Memorial# 17866106. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Millie (Dockery) Chanley, Memorial# 17675059.
  3. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Mary J (Curtis) Chanley, Memorial# 95252415.

Joseph Chaplin Jr.1

Family
ChartsDescendants of William Bolton of Reading, The Immigrant
Revolutionary War*Joseph Chaplin Jr. was a Continental soldier.2 
Marriage*24 October 1782He married Nabbe Bolton of Shirley, daughter of William Bolton Jr. and Abigail Sheldon, on 24 October 1782 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Continental Congress). Their Intention of Marriage was recorded at Shirley on 6 Jul 1782.1,2 
(Witness to Receipt) Inheritance22 January 1798Nelley Bolton gave a receipt on 22 January 1798 for her share in her father's property. Joseph Chaplin Jr. and Timothy Bolton were witnesses.2 

Family

 Nabby (Abigail) Bolton b. 16 Feb 1766, d. 8 Mar 1844

Citations

  1. [S451] Massachusetts Vital Records to the Year 1850 - NEHGS, online at www.newenglandancestors.org. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - NEHGS.
  2. [S490] Charles Knowles Bolton, The Boltons of Old and New England: with a genealogy of the descendants of William Bolton of Reading, Massachusetts, 1720 (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), Descendants of William Bolton, Third Generation, pages 6-8. Hereinafter cited as Boltons of Old and New England.

Abraham Chapman1

Family
Marriage*He married Elizabeth __?__.1 

Family

 Elizabeth __?__
Children 1.Honorable Henry Chapman1
 2.Wilhelmina Chapman+1

Citations

  1. [S2037] Edward Mathews, The Thomas family of Hilltown, Bucks County, Penn'a, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. (Landsdale, Pennsylvania: Arthur K. Thomas, 1884), Chapter XVI. The children of Gwently Thomas, pages 62-64, William Morris. Hereinafter cited as The Thomas family of Hilltown, Bucks County, Penn'a.

Amos A. Chapman1

b. 15 February 1874, d. 17 October 1944
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*15 February 1874Amos A. Chapman was born on 15 February 1874 near Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri.1,2,3,4 
Name VariationHis full name was Amos Ahi Chapman.5 
(Son) Census US 188016 June 1880Amos A. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 6 years old and had attended school within the census year.1 
Marriage*23 November 1896He married Emma J. Phillips, daughter of Samuel P. Phillips and Belinda Jane Daniel, on 23 November 1896 in Albany, Gentry County, Missouri. They were married by a Justice of the Peace.6,2,7 
Death*17 October 1944He died of a blood clot on 17 October 1944 in his home at Waverly, Coffey County, Kansas, at age 702,4 
Burial* and was buried in Block 1, Row 3, Plot 71 of Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Agricola, Coffey County, Kansas.2 
(Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.5,8,1,9

Family

 Emma J. Phillips b. Feb 1877, d. 18 Apr 1947

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Amos A Chapman, Memorial# 76041812. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Amos and Jennie Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Stanberry, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  4. [S2352] Amos A. Chapman 1944 Obituary, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight, (Stanberry, Missouri), Thursday, 9 November 1944, page 3, born near Stanberry, Missouri on 15 February 1874, Amos A. Chapman died from a blood clot on 17 October 1944 at his home in Waverly, at age 70, married to Emma Jane Phillips of Maysville, Missouri 23 November 1896, seven children, all survive, and also survived by four brothers, Price, Henry, Willis and Matthew, and one sister Mrs. Julia Gage. Hereinafter cited as Amos A. Chapman 1944 Obituary.
  5. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  6. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Emma J (Phillips) Chapman, Memorial# 76041795.
  7. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 23 November 1896 in Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of Amos Chapman of Alanthus, Gentry County, over the age of 21 years, and Emma J Phillips of Alanthus, Gentry County, over the age of 18 years, referencing Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, USA, Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  8. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  9. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855.

Catherine E. Chapman1

b. 26 July 1849, d. 16 December 1917
Family
Birth*26 July 1849Catherine E. Chapman was born on 26 July 1849 in Missouri.1 
Marriage*She married Rodney William Oglesby.1 
Death*16 December 1917She died on 16 December 1917 in Peck, Nez Perce County, Idaho, at age 68.1 
Burial*She was buried in Angel Ridge Cemetery, Peck.1 

Family

 Rodney William Oglesby b. 1 Jan 1848, d. 31 Dec 1921
Child 1.Dollie Emma Oglesby+1 b. 8 Dec 1884, d. 2 May 1946

Citations

  1. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Catherine E (Chapman) Oglesby, Memorial# 124712219. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.

Reverend Daniel Chapman1

Family
Marriage*He married Grizzel Dennie, daughter of Albert Dennie and Elizabeth Wakeman.1 

Family

 Grizzel Dennie b. 28 Feb 1696/97, d. 10 Jun 1754

Citations

  1. [S930] Donald Lines Jacobus, compiler and editor, Families of Old Fairfield, Connecticut, online database viewed and downloaded from the New England Historic and Genealogical Society at www.AmericanAncestors.org. Originally published in 2 Volumes, New Haven, Connecticut, by The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 2008), Volume I, page 182. Hereinafter cited as Families of Old Fairfield, Connecticut.

Ethyl M. Chapman1

b. 19 November 1894, d. 19 October 1968
Family
Father*Robert P. Chapman1 b. 22 May 1866, d. 22 Feb 1953
Mother*Charlotte E. Power1 b. 24 Jul 1869, d. 16 Jul 1918
Birth*19 November 1894Ethyl M. Chapman was born on 19 November 1894 in Missouri.1,2 
(Daughter) Census US 190015 June 1900Ethyl M. was enumerated on the 1900 census taken on 15 June 1900 in the household of her parents in Cooper Township, Stanberry City, Gentry County, Missouri. She was 5 years old.1 
Marriage*7 January 1914She married Fred C. Cox on 7 January 1914 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri. They were married at the home of her parents.3 
(Sister) Death18 November 1950Ethyl's sister, Viola Irene Cooper, shot and killed her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper, during an argument in their home near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, on 18 November 1950. Whitney Logan Cooper was 66 years of age.4,5,6,7 
(Sister) Murder18 November 1950Coverage of Cooper's murder appeared in newspapers in Stanberry and Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, and as far south as Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, with much of the reporting overlapping with the same information, especially in Gentry County. We've selected two articles that, in spite of some duplicate information, appear to provide as much of the complete story as we've found. Our transcriptions of those two articles follow:


Springfield Leader and Press, Springfield, Missouri, Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11


Woman Faces Murder Charge
____________

Shoots Her Husband Following Argument


OSCEOLA. November 20 (Special) -- A 46-year old farm wife is being held in St. Clair County jail here today, accused of the gun slaying of her 58-year-old husband during a Saturday night argument in their home seven miles west of Collins.

Prosecuting attorney E. W. Mills said a second degree murder charge had been filed against Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper.

The charge was drawn against Mrs. Cooper, Mills said, after the woman signed a statement admitting the slaying.

An inquest has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the courthouse. Mills said Mrs. Cooper won’t be arraigned until after the inquest.
____________


According to Sheriff Logan Perry, the shooting occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday after the Coopers and Mr. and Mrs. James Buck, (James A. Buck and Dolores J. (Walker) Buck), son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cooper, returned to their 80-acre hill farm after a drinking party in Humansville and nearby Collins.

Perry said the Coopers and Bucks drove to Humansville early Saturday evening and spent some time in a tavern there. They also stopped in Collins for more drinks, Mrs. Cooper told the sheriff.

Mrs. Cooper, authorities added, said her husband became jealous over a man she was talking to at one of the taverns.
____________


And after they returned to their farm home, Cooper allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Mrs. Cooper then related she ran into a bedroom to get her husband’s .38 caliber revolver. When Cooper, the woman said “came at her” threateningly she pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the left side of his chest and out his back. Cooper died instantly.

The Bucks, who had lived with the Coopers for the past six weeks, confirmed Mrs. Cooper’s account of the slaying.

Surviving Cooper, who had lived near Collins “for a couple of years”, Perry said, are a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lester, of Kansas City, and a sister.

Funeral arrangements are under direction of Goodrich of Osceola.
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The Albany Ledger, Albany, Missouri, Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1


Whit Cooper Was Buried Here Last Friday Afternoon
____________

Remains Brought to Albany for Interment Following Inquest
____________


Funeral services for Whitney Logan Cooper, a former citizen of this community, were held here last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Brooks Funeral Home. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Lee Hughes, pastor of the Albany Methodist Church, and interment was in the Grandview cemetery.

The remains reached Albany last Thursday morning from Collins, Missouri, where Mr. Cooper had lived. The body was held there pending an inquest held on Tuesday of last week.

Mr. Cooper was shot in the chest at 11:15 o’clock on Saturday night, November 18. The shooting took place in his home and he was killed instantly. His wife, Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper, who formerly lived near Stanberry, gave herself up to St. Clair County authorities.

Members of the family knew little of the murder. Some of the relatives who were there for the funeral knew that Mrs. Cooper had surrendered but none of them knew the circumstances leading up to the fatal shooting. It was said that Mrs. Cooper refused to testify at the inquest.

Mr. Cooper will be remembered by many persons here. He had lived in this vicinity over a period of several years. He was associated with his brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck, who now lives in Denver, Colorado.

The two brothers had worked over a period of several years at the time the Cousins Lumber Company was in operation here. Whit Cooper had charge of the construction of the present Gentry County jail here and, as far as his brother knew, it was about his last construction work in this vicinity.

The following obituary was read at the funeral here last Friday:

Whitney Logan Cooper, the son of the late Coleman and Josephine Cooper, was born on December 12, 1883 in Appleton City, Missouri, and departed this life at his home near Collins, Missouri, on November 18, 1950. He was past 65 years of age.

He lived in and near Albany the early part of his life, leaving here about 25 years ago. Most of that time since he has lived in the southern part of Missouri.

He was converted when a young man at a revival at the old Gentryville church and was baptised, taking membership in the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, by one daughter born to that marriage, by one brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck of Denver, Colorado, and by two sisters, Ida, Merle, Gertrude, Thelma, Docia, Luella and Ethyl, wives of Leslie R. Griffith, Walter E. Smith, John Pleasant Warden, Thomas Arthur Johnson and Fred C. Cox, respectively, of Englewood, Colorado, and Maryville. There are other relatives and friends left to morn his tragic death.
____________.8,9
 
Death*19 October 1968She died on 19 October 1968 in San Francisco, California, at age 73.2 

Family

 Fred C. Cox b. 5 Oct 1885, d. 13 Jan 1971

Citations

  1. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Price and Charlotte Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Stanberry, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 27; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S2062] California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1895-1985, online at www.newspapers.com, funeral record for Ethel M Cox, born on 19 November 1894 in Missouri, age 73, died on 19 October 1968, daughter of Price Chapman and Charlotte Powers, married to Fred C. Cox, referencing Halsted and Company Funeral Home. Hereinafter cited as California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1895-1985.
  3. [S2161] U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of Miss Ethyl Chapman and Fred Cox on 7 January 1914 at Stanberry, Missouri, USA, referencing The Albany Capital, published on 8 January 1914 in Albany, Missouri, USA, citing https://www.newspapers.com/image/210432294/,0.8283619,0.30889854,0.90047276&xid=3398. Hereinafter cited as U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current.
  4. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 November 1950 in St. Clair County, Missouri, USA, of Whitney Logan Cooper, age 66, carpenter, building industry, married to Irene Cooper, born 12 December 1883 in Missouri to Coleman Cooper and Josephine Logan, autopsy, cause of death homicide in home, rural Collins, Washington Township, St. Clair County, gunshot wound, gun fired by Irene Cooper, informant Merle Smith, Maryville, burial on 24 November 1950 in Albany, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 38190. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971.
  5. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11, reporting the location of is death as seven miles west of Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  6. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1, reporting his place of death as near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  7. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Whitney Logan “Leck” Cooper, Memorial# 18233247, reporting his place of death as Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  8. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11.
  9. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1.

George W. Chapman1

b. 17 March 1878, d. 18 March 1963
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*17 March 1878George W. Chapman was born on 17 March 1878 in Gentry County, Missouri.1,2 
Name VariationHe was called Willis.3 
Name VariationHis full name was George Willis Chapman.4 
(Son) Census US 188016 June 1880George W. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 2 years old.1 
Marriage*4 October 1899He married Cora Ann Houston, daughter of John W. Houston and Laura Ophelia Saunders, on 4 October 1899 in Albany, Gentry County, Missouri. They were married by a Judge of Probate.3 
Census US 1950*14 April 1950Cora and Willis Chapman were enumerated on the 1950 census taken on 14 April 1950 on Maple Street, Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri. Willis was 72 years of age and no longer working, and Cora was 69 years of age and doing the housework. Their house was not on a farm, although it was on a place of three or more acres.5 
(Uncle) Death18 November 1950Willis's niece, Viola Irene Cooper, younger daughter of Willis's brother, Price Chapman, shot and killed her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper, during an argument on 18 November 1950 in their home near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Price's granddaughter, Dolores J. (Walker) Buck, and her husband, James A. Buck, who had been staying with the Coopers for about six weeks, witnessed the killing. Whitney Logan Cooper was 66 years of age.6,7,8,9 
(Uncle) Murder18 November 1950Coverage of Cooper's murder appeared in newspapers in Stanberry and Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, and as far south as Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, with much of the reporting overlapping with the same information, especially in Gentry County. We've selected two articles that, in spite of some duplicate information, appear to provide as much of the complete story as we've found. Our transcriptions of those two articles follow:


Springfield Leader and Press, Springfield, Missouri, Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11


Woman Faces Murder Charge
____________

Shoots Her Husband Following Argument


OSCEOLA. November 20 (Special) -- A 46-year old farm wife is being held in St. Clair County jail here today, accused of the gun slaying of her 58-year-old husband during a Saturday night argument in their home seven miles west of Collins.

Prosecuting attorney E. W. Mills said a second degree murder charge had been filed against Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper.

The charge was drawn against Mrs. Cooper, Mills said, after the woman signed a statement admitting the slaying.

An inquest has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the courthouse. Mills said Mrs. Cooper won’t be arraigned until after the inquest.
____________


According to Sheriff Logan Perry, the shooting occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday after the Coopers and Mr. and Mrs. James Buck, (James A. Buck and Dolores J. (Walker) Buck), son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cooper, returned to their 80-acre hill farm after a drinking party in Humansville and nearby Collins.

Perry said the Coopers and Bucks drove to Humansville early Saturday evening and spent some time in a tavern there. They also stopped in Collins for more drinks, Mrs. Cooper told the sheriff.

Mrs. Cooper, authorities added, said her husband became jealous over a man she was talking to at one of the taverns.
____________


And after they returned to their farm home, Cooper allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Mrs. Cooper then related she ran into a bedroom to get her husband’s .38 caliber revolver. When Cooper, the woman said “came at her” threateningly she pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the left side of his chest and out his back. Cooper died instantly.

The Bucks, who had lived with the Coopers for the past six weeks, confirmed Mrs. Cooper’s account of the slaying.

Surviving Cooper, who had lived near Collins “for a couple of years”, Perry said, are a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lester, of Kansas City, and a sister.

Funeral arrangements are under direction of Goodrich of Osceola.
____________



The Albany Ledger, Albany, Missouri, Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1


Whit Cooper Was Buried Here Last Friday Afternoon
____________

Remains Brought to Albany for Interment Following Inquest
____________


Funeral services for Whitney Logan Cooper, a former citizen of this community, were held here last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Brooks Funeral Home. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Lee Hughes, pastor of the Albany Methodist Church, and interment was in the Grandview cemetery.

The remains reached Albany last Thursday morning from Collins, Missouri, where Mr. Cooper had lived. The body was held there pending an inquest held on Tuesday of last week.

Mr. Cooper was shot in the chest at 11:15 o’clock on Saturday night, November 18. The shooting took place in his home and he was killed instantly. His wife, Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper, who formerly lived near Stanberry, gave herself up to St. Clair County authorities.

Members of the family knew little of the murder. Some of the relatives who were there for the funeral knew that Mrs. Cooper had surrendered but none of them knew the circumstances leading up to the fatal shooting. It was said that Mrs. Cooper refused to testify at the inquest.

Mr. Cooper will be remembered by many persons here. He had lived in this vicinity over a period of several years. He was associated with his brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck, who now lives in Denver, Colorado.

The two brothers had worked over a period of several years at the time the Cousins Lumber Company was in operation here. Whit Cooper had charge of the construction of the present Gentry County jail here and, as far as his brother knew, it was about his last construction work in this vicinity.

The following obituary was read at the funeral here last Friday:

Whitney Logan Cooper, the son of the late Coleman and Josephine Cooper, was born on December 12, 1883 in Appleton City, Missouri, and departed this life at his home near Collins, Missouri, on November 18, 1950. He was past 65 years of age.

He lived in and near Albany the early part of his life, leaving here about 25 years ago. Most of that time since he has lived in the southern part of Missouri.

He was converted when a young man at a revival at the old Gentryville church and was baptised, taking membership in the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, by one daughter born to that marriage, by one brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck of Denver, Colorado, and by two sisters, Ida, Merle, Gertrude, Thelma, Docia, Luella and Ethyl, wives of Leslie R. Griffith, Walter E. Smith, John Pleasant Warden, Thomas Arthur Johnson and Fred C. Cox, respectively, of Englewood, Colorado, and Maryville. There are other relatives and friends left to morn his tragic death.
____________.10,11
 
(Husband) Death19 January 1963Willis became a widower when Cora Ann (Houston) Chapman died on 19 January 1963 at age 81.12,13 
Death*18 March 1963He died two months after his wife and one day after reaching his 85th birthday, on 18 March 1963, in Union Star, DeKalb County, Missouri.2,12,13,14,15 
Burial*He was buried with his wife's parents, and probably his wife, in CA16 NW1/4 of High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry, Gentry County.2,16,17,12 
(Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.4,18,1,19

Family

 Cora Ann Houston b. 28 Jan 1881, d. 19 Jan 1963

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, George Willis Chapman, Memorial# 53943240. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 4 October 1899 in Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of Cora Houston, over the age of 18 years, and Willis Chapman, over the age of 21 years, both residents of Alanthus, Gentry County, referencing Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, USA, Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  4. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  5. [S2295] 1950 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Willis and Cora Chapman, United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Stanberry, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 4049; Sheet Number: 12; Enumeration District: 38-10. Hereinafter cited as 1950 United States Federal Census.
  6. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 November 1950 in St. Clair County, Missouri, USA, of Whitney Logan Cooper, age 66, carpenter, building industry, married to Irene Cooper, born 12 December 1883 in Missouri to Coleman Cooper and Josephine Logan, autopsy, cause of death homicide in home, rural Collins, Washington Township, St. Clair County, gunshot wound, gun fired by Irene Cooper, informant Merle Smith, Maryville, burial on 24 November 1950 in Albany, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 38190. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971.
  7. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11, reporting the location of is death as seven miles west of Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  8. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1, reporting his place of death as near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  9. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Whitney Logan “Leck” Cooper, Memorial# 18233247, reporting his place of death as Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  10. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11.
  11. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1.
  12. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Cora Ann (Houston) Chapman, Memorial# 125699715.
  13. [S2346] Cora Ann (Houston) Chapman 1963 Obituary, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, The Maryville Daily Forum, (Maryville, Missouri), Monday, 21 Jan 1963, page 3, formerly of Stanberry, Mrs. Cora Ann Chapman, 81, died Saturday at her home in Union Star, where she and her husband had moved about two years before; survived by husband, Willis Chapman, a daughter, a sister, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Hereinafter cited as Cora Ann (Houston) Chapman 1963 Obituary.
  14. [S2347] George Willis Chapman 1963 Obituary, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight, (Stanberry, Missouri), Thursday, 21 March 1963, page 1, taken by death Monday morning at his home in Union Star, George Willis Chapman, 85; had resided with late wife Cora in Stanberry area until August 1961 when they moved to Union Star; survived by daughter Mrs. Wilma Miller of Union Star, two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; Willis Chapman, son of Thomas and Hannah (Smith) Chapmen, born 17 March 1878 in Gentry County, married Miss Cora Houston 4 October 1899, she preceded him in death on 19 January 1963, Baptist. Hereinafter cited as George Willis Chapman 1963 Obituary.
  15. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 March 1963 in Union Star, DeKalb County, Missouri, USA, of George Willis Chapman, 85, farmer, widowed, wife's name Cora Houston (deceased), born on 17 March 1878 in Gentry County, Missouri, to Thomas Chapman and Hannah Smith, informant Mrs. John Miller, Union Star, burial High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 11038.
  16. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Laura Ophelia (Saunders) Houston, Memorial# 53818168.
  17. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, John W Houston, Memorial# 53818167.
  18. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  19. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.

Honorable Henry Chapman1

Family
Father*Abraham Chapman1
Mother*Elizabeth __?__1

Citations

  1. [S2037] Edward Mathews, The Thomas family of Hilltown, Bucks County, Penn'a, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. (Landsdale, Pennsylvania: Arthur K. Thomas, 1884), Chapter XVI. The children of Gwently Thomas, pages 62-64, William Morris. Hereinafter cited as The Thomas family of Hilltown, Bucks County, Penn'a.

Herbert Chapman1

b. December 1892
Family
Father*William E. Chapman1 b. Oct 1867, d. 30 Nov 1939
Mother*Mary F. Metzger1 b. 21 Oct 1872, d. 24 May 1955
Birth*December 1892Herbert Chapman was born in December 1892 in Missouri.1 
(Son) Census US 190021 June 1900Herbert was enumerated on the 1900 census taken on 21 June 1900 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 7 years old, was able to read and write, and had attended school for 8 months of the census year.1 

Citations

  1. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.

Isaac Chapman1

Family
Residence*At the time of his marriage, Isaac was a resident of Barnstable, Plymouth Colony.1 
Marriage*2 September 1678He married Rebecca Leonard of Taunton, daughter of James Leonard and Mary Jane Martin, on 2 September 1678.1 

Family

 Rebecca Leonard

Citations

  1. [S1142] Wm. R. Deane, Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family containing a full account of the first three generations of the family of James Leonard, who was an early settler of Taunton, MS. (Massachusetts), downloaded from the Boston Public Library eBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. (Boston, Massachusetts: Office of the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, 1851), Genealogy, page 17. Hereinafter cited as The Family of James Leonard of Taunton.

James W. Chapman1

b. 1871, d. 1895
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*1871James W. Chapman was born about 1871 in Missouri.1 
Name VariationHis full name was James Woodson Chapman.2 
Name VariationHe was called Woodson.3 
(Son) Census US 188016 June 1880James W. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 9 years old and had attended school within the census year.1 
Marriage*27 December 1894He married Susan E. Dunn, daughter of John N. Dunn and Rebecca J. (Richardson) Dunn, on 27 December 1894 in Gentry County, Missouri. They were married at the home of Susan's parents by a Justice of the Peace.4 
Religion*Woodson and Susan were Baptists, and had grown to know each other and fall in love at Church where Susan was the organist, and Woodson the choir leader. He was also studying to become a Baptist preacher.5 
Illness*20 September 1895Woodson Chapman, who had been sick for some time, was thought to be slowly improving under the care of his doctor, and the news was announced under the "Alanthus Items" social events published in the Albany Ledger newspaper in Gentry County, Missouri, on 20 September 1895.3 
Death*1895 The story about a little girl's Grandma reports that James Woodson Chapman died before his first year's wedding anniversary, and before he and his wife knew they had their first child on the way. Tragically, he was crushed between a horse-drawn wagon and a tree, and died a few days later. He was 24 years old.5,6,7 
(4th Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.2,5,1,8

Family

 Susan E. Dunn b. 1 Jul 1871, d. 8 Oct 1940
Child 1.Julia Agnes Chapman9 b. May 1896

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  3. [S2355] Woodson Chapman 1895 Illness, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Albany Ledger, (Albany, Missouri), Friday, 20 Sep 1895, page 8, the Alanthus Items social news reported, "Woodson Chapman, who has been sick for some time, is slowly improving under the care of Dr. Farr". Hereinafter cited as Woodson Chapman 1895 Illness.
  4. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 27 December 1894 at the home of John Dunn in Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of James W Chapman, over the age of 21 years, and Susan E Dunn, over the age of 18 years, both of the county of Gentry, referencing Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, USA, Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  5. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  6. [S2161] U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage license issued to Charles A. Nelson and Susie E. Chapman, both of Buckhart, Douglas County, Missouri in March 1900, referencing The Douglas County Herald, published on 15 March 1900 in Ava, Missouri, USA, citing https://www.newspapers.com/image/491843289/,0.44776466,0.9479741,0.53039926&xid=3398. Hereinafter cited as U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current.
  7. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Charley and Susie E. Nelson, Year: 1900; Census Place: Brush Creek, Douglas, Missouri; Roll: 853; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0158; FHL microfilm: 1240853. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  8. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855.
  9. [S1710] Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 11 September 1921 in Colfax, Whitman County, Washington, USA, of Agnes Chapman, age 25 , born in Mountain Grove, Missouri, daughter of James Woodson Chapman and Susan Ellen Dunn, married Fred George Held, age 41, lineman, born in Ida Grove, Iowa, son of C. W. Held and Nora O'Brien, referencing Washington State Archives, Olympia, Washington, Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013. Hereinafter cited as Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013.

John S. Chapman1

b. 24 October 1875, d. 4 August 1944
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*24 October 1875John S. Chapman was born on 24 October 1875 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri.1,2 
Name VariationHis full name was John Samuel Chapman.3 
(Son) Census US 188016 June 1880John S. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 4 years old.1 
Marriage*10 July 1895He married Emma Evelyn Barnes, daughter of Joseph Cyrus Barnes and Matilda Ellen Jones, on 10 July 1895 in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa.4,2,5 
(Husband) Death23 November 1936John became a widower when Emma Evelyn (Barnes) Chapman died on 23 November 1936 at age 63.4 
Death*4 August 1944He died on 4 August 1944 in Parnell, Nodaway County, Missouri, at age 682 
Burial* and was buried in Parnell Cemetery, Parnell.2 
(Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.3,6,1,7

Family

 Emma Evelyn Barnes b. 6 Mar 1873, d. 23 Nov 1936

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, John Samuel Chapman, Memorial# 102714329. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  4. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Emma Evelyn (Barnes) Chapman, Memorial# 222246595.
  5. [S1700] Iowa, U.S., Marriage Records, 1880-1949, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of John S Chapman of Denver, Missouri, farmer, age 20, born in Missouri, son of Thomas Chapman and Hannah Smith, married Emma E Barnes of Denver, Missouri, age 22, born in Missouri, daughter of Joseph Barnes and Matilda Jones, first marriage for both, married on 10 July 1895 in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa, USA, referencing Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, Iowa, Series Title: Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922. Hereinafter cited as Iowa, U.S., Marriage Records, 1880-1949.
  6. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  7. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.

Julia A. Chapman1

b. 9 October 1872, d. 21 November 1959
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*9 October 1872Julia A. Chapman was born on 9 October 1872 in Gentry County, Missouri.1,2 
Name VariationHer full name was Julia Ann Chapman.3 
(Daughter) Census US 188016 June 1880Julia A. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of her parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. She was 7 years old and had attended school within the census year.1 
Marriage*1 February 1891She married John Franklin Gage, son of Abraham Lincoln Gage and Elizabeth M. Metzger, on 1 February 1891 in Wilson Township, Gentry County. Julia's brother, William Edmond Chapman, would marry John's 1st cousin, Mary Frances Metzger, the following year.4,2,5 
(Aunt) Death18 November 1950Julia's niece, Viola Irene Cooper, younger daughter of Julia's brother, Price Chapman, shot and killed her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper, during an argument on 18 November 1950 in their home near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Price's granddaughter, Dolores J. (Walker) Buck, and her husband, James A. Buck, who had been staying with the Coopers for about six weeks, witnessed the killing. Whitney Logan Cooper was 66 years of age.6,7,8,9 
(Aunt) Murder18 November 1950Coverage of Cooper's murder appeared in newspapers in Stanberry and Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, and as far south as Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, with much of the reporting overlapping with the same information, especially in Gentry County. We've selected two articles that, in spite of some duplicate information, appear to provide as much of the complete story as we've found. Our transcriptions of those two articles follow:


Springfield Leader and Press, Springfield, Missouri, Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11


Woman Faces Murder Charge
____________

Shoots Her Husband Following Argument


OSCEOLA. November 20 (Special) -- A 46-year old farm wife is being held in St. Clair County jail here today, accused of the gun slaying of her 58-year-old husband during a Saturday night argument in their home seven miles west of Collins.

Prosecuting attorney E. W. Mills said a second degree murder charge had been filed against Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper.

The charge was drawn against Mrs. Cooper, Mills said, after the woman signed a statement admitting the slaying.

An inquest has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the courthouse. Mills said Mrs. Cooper won’t be arraigned until after the inquest.
____________


According to Sheriff Logan Perry, the shooting occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday after the Coopers and Mr. and Mrs. James Buck, (James A. Buck and Dolores J. (Walker) Buck), son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cooper, returned to their 80-acre hill farm after a drinking party in Humansville and nearby Collins.

Perry said the Coopers and Bucks drove to Humansville early Saturday evening and spent some time in a tavern there. They also stopped in Collins for more drinks, Mrs. Cooper told the sheriff.

Mrs. Cooper, authorities added, said her husband became jealous over a man she was talking to at one of the taverns.
____________


And after they returned to their farm home, Cooper allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Mrs. Cooper then related she ran into a bedroom to get her husband’s .38 caliber revolver. When Cooper, the woman said “came at her” threateningly she pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the left side of his chest and out his back. Cooper died instantly.

The Bucks, who had lived with the Coopers for the past six weeks, confirmed Mrs. Cooper’s account of the slaying.

Surviving Cooper, who had lived near Collins “for a couple of years”, Perry said, are a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lester, of Kansas City, and a sister.

Funeral arrangements are under direction of Goodrich of Osceola.
____________



The Albany Ledger, Albany, Missouri, Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1


Whit Cooper Was Buried Here Last Friday Afternoon
____________

Remains Brought to Albany for Interment Following Inquest
____________


Funeral services for Whitney Logan Cooper, a former citizen of this community, were held here last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Brooks Funeral Home. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Lee Hughes, pastor of the Albany Methodist Church, and interment was in the Grandview cemetery.

The remains reached Albany last Thursday morning from Collins, Missouri, where Mr. Cooper had lived. The body was held there pending an inquest held on Tuesday of last week.

Mr. Cooper was shot in the chest at 11:15 o’clock on Saturday night, November 18. The shooting took place in his home and he was killed instantly. His wife, Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper, who formerly lived near Stanberry, gave herself up to St. Clair County authorities.

Members of the family knew little of the murder. Some of the relatives who were there for the funeral knew that Mrs. Cooper had surrendered but none of them knew the circumstances leading up to the fatal shooting. It was said that Mrs. Cooper refused to testify at the inquest.

Mr. Cooper will be remembered by many persons here. He had lived in this vicinity over a period of several years. He was associated with his brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck, who now lives in Denver, Colorado.

The two brothers had worked over a period of several years at the time the Cousins Lumber Company was in operation here. Whit Cooper had charge of the construction of the present Gentry County jail here and, as far as his brother knew, it was about his last construction work in this vicinity.

The following obituary was read at the funeral here last Friday:

Whitney Logan Cooper, the son of the late Coleman and Josephine Cooper, was born on December 12, 1883 in Appleton City, Missouri, and departed this life at his home near Collins, Missouri, on November 18, 1950. He was past 65 years of age.

He lived in and near Albany the early part of his life, leaving here about 25 years ago. Most of that time since he has lived in the southern part of Missouri.

He was converted when a young man at a revival at the old Gentryville church and was baptised, taking membership in the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, by one daughter born to that marriage, by one brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck of Denver, Colorado, and by two sisters, Ida, Merle, Gertrude, Thelma, Docia, Luella and Ethyl, wives of Leslie R. Griffith, Walter E. Smith, John Pleasant Warden, Thomas Arthur Johnson and Fred C. Cox, respectively, of Englewood, Colorado, and Maryville. There are other relatives and friends left to morn his tragic death.
____________.10,11
 
(Wife) Death25 June 1953Julia became a widow when John Franklin Gage died on 25 June 1953 at age 83.4 
Death*21 November 1959She died on 21 November 1959 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri, at age 872 
Burial* and was buried with her husband in Jennings Cemetery, Alanthus Grove, Gentry County.2,4 
(Daughter) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.3,12,1,13

Family

 John Franklin Gage b. 4 Aug 1869, d. 25 Jun 1953

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Julia Ann (Chapman) Gage, Memorial# 49575121. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  4. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, John Franklin Gage, Memorial# 41238191.
  5. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 1 February 1891 in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of Julia A Chapman, over the age of 18 years, and John F Gage, over the age of 21 years, both residents of Gentry County, referencing Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, USA, Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  6. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 November 1950 in St. Clair County, Missouri, USA, of Whitney Logan Cooper, age 66, carpenter, building industry, married to Irene Cooper, born 12 December 1883 in Missouri to Coleman Cooper and Josephine Logan, autopsy, cause of death homicide in home, rural Collins, Washington Township, St. Clair County, gunshot wound, gun fired by Irene Cooper, informant Merle Smith, Maryville, burial on 24 November 1950 in Albany, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 38190. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971.
  7. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11, reporting the location of is death as seven miles west of Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  8. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1, reporting his place of death as near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  9. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Whitney Logan “Leck” Cooper, Memorial# 18233247, reporting his place of death as Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  10. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11.
  11. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1.
  12. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  13. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.

Julia Agnes Chapman1,2

b. May 1896
Family
Father*James W. Chapman1 b. 1871, d. 1895
Mother*Susan E. Dunn1 b. 1 Jul 1871, d. 8 Oct 1940
(Daughter) Death1895Her father died before she was born, and a story written years later by one of her mother's granddaughters explained that he died before her parents' first year's wedding anniversary, and before they knew that Julia, their first child, was on the way. Tragically, her father was crushed between a horse-drawn wagon and a tree, and died a few days later. He was 24 years old.3,4,2 
Birth*May 1896Julia Agnes Chapman was born in May 1896 in Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri.1,2 
(Daughter) Marriage15 March 1900Julia was three years old when her mother married a second time to Charles N. Nelson, who had also been widowed and had an eight year old daughter.2,4 
(Stepdaughter) Census US 19009 June 1900Julia was enumerated on the 1900 census taken on 9 June 1900 in the household of her mother and stepfather in Brush Creek, Douglas County, Missouri. She was 4 years old.2 

Citations

  1. [S1710] Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 11 September 1921 in Colfax, Whitman County, Washington, USA, of Agnes Chapman, age 25 , born in Mountain Grove, Missouri, daughter of James Woodson Chapman and Susan Ellen Dunn, married Fred George Held, age 41, lineman, born in Ida Grove, Iowa, son of C. W. Held and Nora O'Brien, referencing Washington State Archives, Olympia, Washington, Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013. Hereinafter cited as Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013.
  2. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Charley and Susie E. Nelson, Year: 1900; Census Place: Brush Creek, Douglas, Missouri; Roll: 853; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0158; FHL microfilm: 1240853. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  3. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  4. [S2161] U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage license issued to Charles A. Nelson and Susie E. Chapman, both of Buckhart, Douglas County, Missouri in March 1900, referencing The Douglas County Herald, published on 15 March 1900 in Ava, Missouri, USA, citing https://www.newspapers.com/image/491843289/,0.44776466,0.9479741,0.53039926&xid=3398. Hereinafter cited as U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current.

Lucy Chapman1

b. 1 February 1769, d. 31 March 1800
Family
ChartsDescendants of John Heaton of Lincolnshire, including the Immigrant Nathaniel
Father*Samuel Chapman2,3 d. 12 Mar 1786
Mother*Eleanor Belding4 b. 1744, d. 26 Aug 1828
Birth*1 February 1769Lucy Chapman was born on 1 February 1769 in Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.2 
Marriage*12 November 1785She married, as his first wife, William Heaton Jr., son of William Heaton and Irene King, on 12 November 1785 in Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.1 
Death*31 March 1800She died on 31 March 1800 in Thetford, Orange County, Vermont, at age 315 
Burial* and was buried in East Thetford Cemetery, East Thetford, Orange County.6 
Research Notes*Her widowed husband married a second time in 1803, and in honor of Lucy, he and his wife named their first daughter, born in 1809, Lucy Chapman Heaton.7,1,5,8 

Family

 William Heaton b. 12 Jan 1767, d. 7 Mar 1849

Citations

  1. [S2593] New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of William Heaton Jr. of Thetford, Vermont and Lucy Chapman of Keene, New Hampshire on 12 November 1795 in Keene, New Hampshire, referencing Box# 659 and citing New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services; Concord, NH, USA; New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1700-1969. Hereinafter cited as New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971.
  2. [S2614] New Hampshire, U.S., Birth Index, 1659-1900, online at www.ancestry.com, birth of Lucy Chapman, on 1 February 1769 in Keene, New Hampshire, USA, daughter of Samuel Chapman and Elenor. Hereinafter cited as New Hampshire, U.S., Birth Index, 1659-1900.
  3. [S2592] New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982, online at www.ancestry.com, will of Samuel Chapman dated 14 December 1785, Cheshire County, Volumes 1-2, 1771-1793, images 67-68 of 602. Hereinafter cited as New Hampshire, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982.
  4. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Eleanor (Belding) Wilson, Memorial# 106825714. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  5. [S1683] Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, online at www.ancestry.com, death of The Wife of William Heaton Jr. on 31 March 1800 in Thetford, Vermont, USA, son of and , referencing New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records through 1870. Hereinafter cited as Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908.
  6. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Lucy Heaton, Memorial# 79614822.
  7. [S2615] Elias Child, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe families : of the past and present in the United States and the Canadas from 1630 to 1881, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. Includes indexes. Includes Barber, May, Morse, Perry, Walker, West and related families. Ephraim Child (1593-1663) and his nephew, Benjamin Child (d.1678), immigrated in 1630 to Watertown, Massachusetts. Ephraim left no progeny, but Benjamin settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and left twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere. Some descendants became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Utah and elsewhere. Other descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes some Child ancestry and genealogical data in England. Also available on microfilm and digital images. (Utica, New York: Curtiss & Childs, 1881), Watertown Branch, Chapter VIII. William Child, Heaton Family, pages 531-535. Hereinafter cited as Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe families.
  8. [S1683] Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, online at www.ancestry.com, birth of Lucey Chapman Heaton on 10 March 1809 in Thetford, Vermont, USA, daughter of William Heaton and Patty Heaton, referencing New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records through 1870.

Mariah J. Chapman1

b. 1852
Family
Birth*1852Mariah J. Chapman was born about 1852 in Virginia.2 
Name VariationHer full name was Mariah Jane Chapman3 
Name Variation and she was often called Jane.3 
Marriage*1874She married, as his first wife, Isaac W. Hines, son of Hiram Hines and Susannah Skidmore, in 1874 in Braxton County, West Virginia.1,2 
(Paramour #1) MurderThe savage murder of Jemima Green, which occurred on 20 May 1875 near Sutton, Braxton County, produced, according to the newspapers, "a great deal of excitement." For at least four years after her murder, news articles covering her brutal killing, and the resulting multiple arrests and trials of the accused, were published in West Virginia newspapers. Some of the individuals mentioned in the news articles, as events developed, included Isaac Lewis Perkins, Samuel Ellis Perkins, David Wine, Elijah Perkins, Mariah Jane (Chapman) Hines, Isaac W. Hines, Sarah Jane Mollohan, Elizabeth (Rogers) Mollohan, William B. Young and Sarah Jane (Wine) Wine Williams. We've transcribed several of the news articles and placed them here with Jemima.4 
(Paramour #1) Trial6 December 1875She was described as a former "paramour" of Samuel Ellis Perkins, and appeared as a witness against him, at his trial for the murder of Jemima Green which began on 6 December 1875 in a special term of the Circuit Court for Braxton County. The trial lasted nine days, with 80 witnesses examined, and the examination of the State's witnesses began after it was first proven that Jemima Green had been murdered. The testimony of Mariah Jane (Chapman) Hines and Marion Nichols proved for the State that a threat was made by the prisoner on the Wednesday prior to the killing on Thursday night. The State next proved an opportunity by the prisoner at the proper time to execute his threat, and submitted several admissions that showed him to be one of the parties to the killing. The State further showed that the prisoner had attempted to remove suspicion from himself by procuring another party to charge a third person with the crime. This last evidence was the testimony of Mariah Jane (Chapman) Hines, who was, at the time of the murder, the paramour of the prisoner, Samuel Ellis Perkins, but had been abandoned by him sometime in July when he, the prisoner, "took to his bosom another woman." The position of the Defense was that Chapman, who had married Isaac W. Hines by the time of the trial, perjured her testimony to get even with her former lover. We note here that the newspaper article had some very unkind things to say about Mariah's character. Our transcription of this complete news article may be found among the others with Jemima.3 
Census US 1880*25 June 1880Mariah J. and Isaac Hines were enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 25 June 1880 in Holly, Braxton County, West Virginia. Isaac was 28 years of age, a farmer, and was unable to read or write, and Mariah J. was 28 years of age and keeping house. Their two children, Catharine, who was 5 years old, and Michael, who was age one, were enumerated with them in 1880.2 
Research Notes*The marriage between Mariah Jane (Chapman) Hines and Isaac W. Hines ended, although whether by divorce or Mariah's death we don't know. We've found no records for Mariah after her enumeration on the 1880 census, and Isaac would marry a second time in 1890.5 

Family

 Isaac W. Hines b. 1851
Children 1.Catharine Hines2 b. 1875
 2.Michael Hines2 b. 1879

Citations

  1. [S1387] West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of Mariah J Chapman and Isaac Hines in 1874 in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Hereinafter cited as West Virginia Marriages Index 1785-1971.
  2. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Isaac and Mariah J. Hines, Year: 1880; Census Place: Holly, Braxton, West Virginia; Roll: 1400; Page: 425D; Enumeration District: 007. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  3. [S2565] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1875 Murder of Jemima Green in Braxton County, West Virginia, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 10 January 1876, page 3 (2). Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1875 Murder of Jemima Green in Braxton County, West Virginia.
  4. [S2565] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1875 Murder of Jemima Green in Braxton County, West Virginia, online at www.newspapers.com, South Branch Intelligencer, (Romney, West Virginia), Friday, 4 June 1875, page 2; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 5 July 1875, page 3; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 19 July 1875, page 5; The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, (Wheeling, West Virginia), Wednesday, 21 July 1875, page 2; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 30 August 1875, page 3; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 4 October 1875, page 2; The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, (Wheeling, West Virginia), Monday, 29 November 1875, page 3; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 27 December 1875, page 3; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 10 January 1876, page 3 (1); The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 10 January 1876, page 3 (2); The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 10 January 1876, page 3 (3); The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 27 March 1876, page 3 (1); The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 27 March 1876, page 3 (2); Martinsburg Independent, (Martinsburg, West Virginia), Saturday, 29 July 1876, page 1; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 15 January 1877, page 3; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Monday, 22 January 1877, page 3; The Wheeling Daily Register, (Wheeling, West Virginia), Wednesday, 20 June 1877, page 4; The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, (Wheeling, West Virginia), Monday, 6 May 1878, page 4; The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, (Wheeling, West Virginia), Monday, 11 November 1878, page 4; The Weston Democrat, (Weston, West Virginia), Saturday, 14 December 1878, page 1.
  5. [S1387] West Virginia Marriages Index 1785-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of Isaac W Hines and Phebe J Knight in 1890 in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.

Matthew M. Chapman1

b. 24 August 1883, d. 21 February 1961
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*24 August 1883Matthew M. Chapman was born on 24 August 1883 in Alanthus, Gentry County, Missouri.1,2,3 
Name VariationHis full name was Matthew Manford Chapman.4 
(Son) Census US 190023 June 1900Matthew M. was enumerated on the 1900 census taken on 23 June 1900 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 16 years old, was able to both read and write, had attended school for six months of the census year and worked as a laborer on the family farm when not in school.1 
Marriage*11 June 1913He married Samantha Blackwood Sill, daughter of Alexander Sill and Martha Emily Blackwood, on 11 June 1913 in Clay County, South Dakota.5,2,6 
(Uncle) Death18 November 1950Matthew's niece, Viola Irene Cooper, younger daughter of Matthew's brother, Price Chapman, shot and killed her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper, during an argument on 18 November 1950 in their home near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Price's granddaughter, Dolores J. (Walker) Buck, and her husband, James A. Buck, who had been staying with the Coopers for about six weeks, witnessed the killing. Whitney Logan Cooper was 66 years of age.7,8,9,10 
(Uncle) Murder18 November 1950Coverage of Cooper's murder appeared in newspapers in Stanberry and Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, and as far south as Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, with much of the reporting overlapping with the same information, especially in Gentry County. We've selected two articles that, in spite of some duplicate information, appear to provide as much of the complete story as we've found. Our transcriptions of those two articles follow:


Springfield Leader and Press, Springfield, Missouri, Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11


Woman Faces Murder Charge
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Shoots Her Husband Following Argument


OSCEOLA. November 20 (Special) -- A 46-year old farm wife is being held in St. Clair County jail here today, accused of the gun slaying of her 58-year-old husband during a Saturday night argument in their home seven miles west of Collins.

Prosecuting attorney E. W. Mills said a second degree murder charge had been filed against Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper.

The charge was drawn against Mrs. Cooper, Mills said, after the woman signed a statement admitting the slaying.

An inquest has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the courthouse. Mills said Mrs. Cooper won’t be arraigned until after the inquest.
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According to Sheriff Logan Perry, the shooting occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday after the Coopers and Mr. and Mrs. James Buck, (James A. Buck and Dolores J. (Walker) Buck), son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cooper, returned to their 80-acre hill farm after a drinking party in Humansville and nearby Collins.

Perry said the Coopers and Bucks drove to Humansville early Saturday evening and spent some time in a tavern there. They also stopped in Collins for more drinks, Mrs. Cooper told the sheriff.

Mrs. Cooper, authorities added, said her husband became jealous over a man she was talking to at one of the taverns.
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And after they returned to their farm home, Cooper allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Mrs. Cooper then related she ran into a bedroom to get her husband’s .38 caliber revolver. When Cooper, the woman said “came at her” threateningly she pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the left side of his chest and out his back. Cooper died instantly.

The Bucks, who had lived with the Coopers for the past six weeks, confirmed Mrs. Cooper’s account of the slaying.

Surviving Cooper, who had lived near Collins “for a couple of years”, Perry said, are a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lester, of Kansas City, and a sister.

Funeral arrangements are under direction of Goodrich of Osceola.
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The Albany Ledger, Albany, Missouri, Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1


Whit Cooper Was Buried Here Last Friday Afternoon
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Remains Brought to Albany for Interment Following Inquest
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Funeral services for Whitney Logan Cooper, a former citizen of this community, were held here last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Brooks Funeral Home. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Lee Hughes, pastor of the Albany Methodist Church, and interment was in the Grandview cemetery.

The remains reached Albany last Thursday morning from Collins, Missouri, where Mr. Cooper had lived. The body was held there pending an inquest held on Tuesday of last week.

Mr. Cooper was shot in the chest at 11:15 o’clock on Saturday night, November 18. The shooting took place in his home and he was killed instantly. His wife, Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper, who formerly lived near Stanberry, gave herself up to St. Clair County authorities.

Members of the family knew little of the murder. Some of the relatives who were there for the funeral knew that Mrs. Cooper had surrendered but none of them knew the circumstances leading up to the fatal shooting. It was said that Mrs. Cooper refused to testify at the inquest.

Mr. Cooper will be remembered by many persons here. He had lived in this vicinity over a period of several years. He was associated with his brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck, who now lives in Denver, Colorado.

The two brothers had worked over a period of several years at the time the Cousins Lumber Company was in operation here. Whit Cooper had charge of the construction of the present Gentry County jail here and, as far as his brother knew, it was about his last construction work in this vicinity.

The following obituary was read at the funeral here last Friday:

Whitney Logan Cooper, the son of the late Coleman and Josephine Cooper, was born on December 12, 1883 in Appleton City, Missouri, and departed this life at his home near Collins, Missouri, on November 18, 1950. He was past 65 years of age.

He lived in and near Albany the early part of his life, leaving here about 25 years ago. Most of that time since he has lived in the southern part of Missouri.

He was converted when a young man at a revival at the old Gentryville church and was baptised, taking membership in the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, by one daughter born to that marriage, by one brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck of Denver, Colorado, and by two sisters, Ida, Merle, Gertrude, Thelma, Docia, Luella and Ethyl, wives of Leslie R. Griffith, Walter E. Smith, John Pleasant Warden, Thomas Arthur Johnson and Fred C. Cox, respectively, of Englewood, Colorado, and Maryville. There are other relatives and friends left to morn his tragic death.
____________.11,12
 
Death*21 February 1961He died on 21 February 1961 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri, at age 772,3 
Burial* and was buried in SA 27 SW1/4 of High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry, Gentry County.13,3 
Research Notes*We noted, in June 2022, discrepancies in the information provided on the Find a Grave memorials for Matthew Manford Chapman and his wife, Samantha Blackwood (Sill) Chapman. Matthew's, memorial page reported that his wife, Samantha, was buried next to him, and also provided the same plot identification as Samantha's, although a different cemetery. His memorial page reported he was buried in King City Cemetery. Our analysis indicates that Matthew's cemetery information is incorrect, and that both Samantha and Matthew were buried in High Ridge Cemetery in the same plot. Matthew's death certificate also identified High Ridge Cemetery as his intended place of burial.5,2 
(Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.4,14,15,16

Family

 Samantha Blackwood Sill b. 4 Apr 1891, d. 13 Jan 1970

Citations

  1. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Harrah R. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 13; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Matthew Manford Chapman, Memorial# 92954678. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 21 February 1961 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of Matthew Manford Chapman, age 77, married to Samantha Chapman, farmer, born on 24 August 1883 in Alanthus, Gentry County, Missouri to Thomas J. Chapman and Hannah R. Smith, informant Mrs. Samantha Chapman, Stanberry, burial in High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 5033. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971.
  4. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  5. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Samantha Blackwood (Sill) Chapman, Memorial# 53943237.
  6. [S2348] South Dakota, U.S., Marriages, 1905-2017, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 11 June 1913 in Clay County, South Dakota, USA, of Matthew M Chapman, age 29, born about 1884, resident of Stanberry, Missouri, and Samantha Sill, age 22, born about 1891, resident of Clay County, South Dakota, citing Certificate# 36934, South Dakota Department of Health; Pierre, South Dakota; South Dakota Marriage Records, 1905-2016. Hereinafter cited as South Dakota, U.S., Marriages, 1905-2017.
  7. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 November 1950 in St. Clair County, Missouri, USA, of Whitney Logan Cooper, age 66, carpenter, building industry, married to Irene Cooper, born 12 December 1883 in Missouri to Coleman Cooper and Josephine Logan, autopsy, cause of death homicide in home, rural Collins, Washington Township, St. Clair County, gunshot wound, gun fired by Irene Cooper, informant Merle Smith, Maryville, burial on 24 November 1950 in Albany, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 38190.
  8. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11, reporting the location of is death as seven miles west of Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  9. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1, reporting his place of death as near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  10. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Whitney Logan “Leck” Cooper, Memorial# 18233247, reporting his place of death as Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  11. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11.
  12. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1.
  13. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Matthew Manford Chapman, Memorial# 92954678, reporting his burial in King City Cemetery, while we believe it was actually in High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry.
  14. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  15. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  16. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855.

Minnie B. Chapman1

b. September 1879
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman1 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith1 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*September 1879Minnie B. Chapman was born about September 1879 in Missouri.1 
(Daughter) Census US 188016 June 1880Minnie B. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of her parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. She was nine months old.1 
(Younger Daughter) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.2,3,1,4

Citations

  1. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  2. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  3. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  4. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.

Robert P. Chapman1,2

b. 22 May 1866, d. 22 February 1953
Family
Father*Thomas J. Chapman3 b. 8 Apr 1839, d. 3 Jun 1921
Mother*Hannah R. Smith3 b. 31 Oct 1846, d. 19 Feb 1934
Birth*22 May 1866Robert P. Chapman was born on 22 May 1866 in Missouri.4,3,5,6 
Name VariationHis full name was Robert Price Chapman.4,7 
Name VariationHe was often called Price.4 
(Son) Census US 187027 August 1870Robert P. was enumerated on the 1870 census taken on 27 August 1870 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 4 years old.8 
(Son) Census US 188016 June 1880Robert P. was enumerated on the 1880 census taken on 16 June 1880 in the household of his parents in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was 14 years old, was able to both read and write and had attended school within the census year. His occupation was recorded as at home.3 
Marriage*16 August 1888He married Charlotte E. Power, daughter of John Power and Lottie Hultz, on 16 August 1888 in Gentry County, Missouri.1,2,9 
Census US 1900*15 June 1900Lottie and Price Chapman were enumerated on the 1900 census taken on 15 June 1900 in Cooper Township, Stanberry City, Gentry County, Missouri. Price was 36 years of age and worked as a fire knocker, which was a job offered by the railroad companies. A description found online explained that after a train completed its run and was parked in a railway yard, the fire knockers would clear the engine of fire and cinders over a cinder pit. Charlotte was 34 years of age. They were both able to read and write, rented their house, had been married for 11 years and Charlotte had given birth to two children, only one of whom was living. Ethyle M., who was 5 years old, was enumerated with her parents in 1900. A boarder was also enumerated with the family in 1900. William Wrightsman was a widow, 41 years of age and worked as a mail carrier.5 
(Husband) Death16 July 1918Price became a widower when Lottie (Power) Chapman died at age 48 of stomach cancer on 16 July 1918. She was 8 days short of her 49th birthday.9 
Census US 1930*28 April 1930Price Chapman was enumerated on the 1930 census taken on 28 April 1930 in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was a widower, 63 years of age and worked as a blacksmith on his own account, in his own blacksmith shop. He rented his house, which was not on a farm, for $6.00 per month and did not own a radio set. He was reported to have been 22 years of age at his first marriage. His daughter, Irene Walker, and his granddaughter, Dolores J. Walker, were enumerated with him in 1930. Irene was 25 years of age and recorded as a widow, although she was actually divorced. She reported she had been 22 years of age at her first marriage, although our research indicates she was about age 17 when she married Raymond Earl Williams, and about age 20 when she married Melvin James Walker. She was not working outside the home in 1930. Her daughter, Dolores, was 3 years old. Everyone in the household, including Dolores, was reported as able to read and write.10 
Census US 1940*17 April 1940R. Price Chapman was enumerated on the 1940 census taken on 17 April 1940 in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri. He was a widower, 73 years of age, had completed his education through the 8th grade of elementary school, and worked in his own blacksmith shop. He rented his home, which was not on a farm, for $2.00 per month, and had worked in his business for 60 hours the week before the census was taken. Enumerated with him in 1940 was his granddaughter, Dolores J. Walker, the older daughter of his daughter, Viola Irene Cooper. Dolores was 13 years old, had completed her education through the 6th grade of elementary school, and had attended school within the census year. On 1 April 1935, Price and Dolores had both resided in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Two items of note: first, Dolores had already been enumerated on the 1940 census taken nine days earlier in St. Joseph with her mother and stepfather, Whitney L. Cooper; and second, the family of Dolores's uncle, Martin E. Walker, her deceased father's brother, was enumerated on the 1940 census just five households away from Dolores and her grandfather, on the previous census page.4,11,12 
Social News*December 1940The Stanberry, Missouri newspaper's Social News reported that Price Chapman and his granddaughter, Dolores Walker, visited Price's daughter and son-in-law, Irene and Whit Cooper, and their daughter, Charlotte Cooper, Dolores's half-sister, in December 1940 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri.13 
(Grandfather) Social News12 December 1940The newspaper reported on 12 December 1940, in their Social News for Alanthus and Community, that Dolores Walker and her sister Charlotte Cooper had come to the home of their grandfather, Price Chapman, on Thursday and that "to be sure, Granddad is happy to have them with him."14 
Social News*29 March 1945The Stanberry, Missouri newspaper's Social News reported on 29 March 1945 that Price Chapman had returned home from a visit of several months with his daughter and son-in-law, Irene and Whitney L. Cooper, in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas.15 
Social News*26 July 1945The newspaper in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri, reported on 26 July 1945 in their Social News for Alanthus and Community that Charlotte Cooper of Kansas City was visiting her grandfather, Price Chapman.16 
(Grandfather) Census US 19507 April 1950Robert P. Chapman was enumerated on the 1950 census taken on 7 April 1950 in the household of his granddaughter and her husband, Dolores Jacqueline and James A. Buck, at 621 South 26th, Shawnee, Wyandotte County, Kansas. He was 83 years of age, a widower, and no longer working.17 
(Father) Death18 November 1950Price's daughter, Viola Irene Cooper, shot and killed her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper, during an argument in their home near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, on 18 November 1950. Price's son-in-law was 66 years of age.18,19,20,21 
(Father-in-Law) Murder18 November 1950Coverage of his son-in-law's murder appeared in newspapers in Stanberry and Albany, Gentry County, Missouri, and as far south as Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, with much of the reporting overlapping with the same information, especially in Gentry County. We've selected two articles that, in spite of some duplicate information, appear to provide as much of the complete story as we've found. Our transcriptions of those two articles follow:


Springfield Leader and Press, Springfield, Missouri, Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11


Woman Faces Murder Charge
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Shoots Her Husband Following Argument


OSCEOLA. November 20 (Special) -- A 46-year old farm wife is being held in St. Clair County jail here today, accused of the gun slaying of her 58-year-old husband during a Saturday night argument in their home seven miles west of Collins.

Prosecuting attorney E. W. Mills said a second degree murder charge had been filed against Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper in connection with the fatal shooting of her husband, Whitney Logan Cooper.

The charge was drawn against Mrs. Cooper, Mills said, after the woman signed a statement admitting the slaying.

An inquest has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in the courthouse. Mills said Mrs. Cooper won’t be arraigned until after the inquest.
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According to Sheriff Logan Perry, the shooting occurred about 11:15 p.m. Saturday after the Coopers and Mr. and Mrs. James Buck, (James A. Buck and Dolores J. (Walker) Buck), son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cooper, returned to their 80-acre hill farm after a drinking party in Humansville and nearby Collins.

Perry said the Coopers and Bucks drove to Humansville early Saturday evening and spent some time in a tavern there. They also stopped in Collins for more drinks, Mrs. Cooper told the sheriff.

Mrs. Cooper, authorities added, said her husband became jealous over a man she was talking to at one of the taverns.
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And after they returned to their farm home, Cooper allegedly threatened to kill his wife. Mrs. Cooper then related she ran into a bedroom to get her husband’s .38 caliber revolver. When Cooper, the woman said “came at her” threateningly she pulled the trigger. The bullet went through the left side of his chest and out his back. Cooper died instantly.

The Bucks, who had lived with the Coopers for the past six weeks, confirmed Mrs. Cooper’s account of the slaying.

Surviving Cooper, who had lived near Collins “for a couple of years”, Perry said, are a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lester, of Kansas City, and a sister.

Funeral arrangements are under direction of Goodrich of Osceola.
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The Albany Ledger, Albany, Missouri, Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1


Whit Cooper Was Buried Here Last Friday Afternoon
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Remains Brought to Albany for Interment Following Inquest
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Funeral services for Whitney Logan Cooper, a former citizen of this community, were held here last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Brooks Funeral Home. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Lee Hughes, pastor of the Albany Methodist Church, and interment was in the Grandview cemetery.

The remains reached Albany last Thursday morning from Collins, Missouri, where Mr. Cooper had lived. The body was held there pending an inquest held on Tuesday of last week.

Mr. Cooper was shot in the chest at 11:15 o’clock on Saturday night, November 18. The shooting took place in his home and he was killed instantly. His wife, Mrs. Viola Irene Cooper, who formerly lived near Stanberry, gave herself up to St. Clair County authorities.

Members of the family knew little of the murder. Some of the relatives who were there for the funeral knew that Mrs. Cooper had surrendered but none of them knew the circumstances leading up to the fatal shooting. It was said that Mrs. Cooper refused to testify at the inquest.

Mr. Cooper will be remembered by many persons here. He had lived in this vicinity over a period of several years. He was associated with his brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck, who now lives in Denver, Colorado.

The two brothers had worked over a period of several years at the time the Cousins Lumber Company was in operation here. Whit Cooper had charge of the construction of the present Gentry County jail here and, as far as his brother knew, it was about his last construction work in this vicinity.

The following obituary was read at the funeral here last Friday:

Whitney Logan Cooper, the son of the late Coleman and Josephine Cooper, was born on December 12, 1883 in Appleton City, Missouri, and departed this life at his home near Collins, Missouri, on November 18, 1950. He was past 65 years of age.

He lived in and near Albany the early part of his life, leaving here about 25 years ago. Most of that time since he has lived in the southern part of Missouri.

He was converted when a young man at a revival at the old Gentryville church and was baptised, taking membership in the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, by one daughter born to that marriage, by one brother, Walter V. Cooper, Charles E. Buck and Lewis Deloyd Buck of Denver, Colorado, and by two sisters, Ida, Merle, Gertrude, Thelma, Docia, Luella and Ethyl, wives of Leslie R. Griffith, Walter E. Smith, John Pleasant Warden, Thomas Arthur Johnson and Fred C. Cox, respectively, of Englewood, Colorado, and Maryville. There are other relatives and friends left to morn his tragic death.
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Death*22 February 1953He died on Monday Morning, 22 February 1953, in the Pine Tree Rest Home, Butler, Bates County, Missouri, at age 86.6,24 
(Son) Family PhotoThis wonderful photo of the family of Thomas Jefferson Chapman and Hannah Rebecca (Smith) Chapman of Gentry County, Missouri, was shared originally by Roxanne Held on 15 March 2022 when she posted it to her Ancestry Tree. We estimate the date of the photo as about 1895, before the death that year of the couple's fourth son, James Woodson Chapman. Their younger daughter, Minnie B. Chapman, who is not in the photo, was likely deceased as we have found no evidence of her after her enumeration with her parents and siblings in the 1880 census. And the couple's second son, William Edmond Chapman, is missing from the photo and we don't know why. He was not deceased; he was enumerated with his wife and son on the 1900 census in Wilson Township, Gentry County, Missouri and he, with his family, relocated to Oklahoma in 1901. We wonder if he was away on a future relocation scouting-trip when the photo was taken.7,25,3,26

Family

 Charlotte E. Power b. 24 Jul 1869, d. 16 Jul 1918
Children 1.Ethyl M. Chapman5 b. 19 Nov 1894, d. 19 Oct 1968
 2.Viola Irene Chapman+1 b. 1905, d. 17 Aug 1994

Citations

  1. [S1508] Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage of Viola Irene Chapman, age 18, daughter of Robert Chapman and Charlotte Power, and Raymond Earl Williams, son of Ed Williams and Frances Bonesteel, on 19 December 1922 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, citing FHL Film# 1476880, Reference ID: 2:3WV1RNV. Hereinafter cited as Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996.
  2. [S1732] Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage on 16 August 1888 in Gentry County, Missouri, USA, of Robert P Chapman and Charlotte E Power, referencing Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, USA, Missouri Marriage Records [Microfilm]. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
  3. [S23] 1880 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas J. and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1880; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 687; Page: 426C; Enumeration District: 271. Hereinafter cited as 1880 United States Federal Census.
  4. [S1441] 1940 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of R. Price Chapman, Year: 1940; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: m-t0627-02106; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 38-18. Hereinafter cited as 1940 United States Federal Census.
  5. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Price and Charlotte Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Stanberry, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 27; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240855. Hereinafter cited as 1900 United States Federal Census.
  6. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 22 February 1953 in Pine Tree Rest Home, Butler, Bates County, Missouri, USA, of Robert Chapman, 86, widowed, blacksmith, born in Missouri on 22 May 1866, informant St. Clair County Welfare, burial in Stanberry cemetery, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 4786. Hereinafter cited as Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971.
  7. [S2340] Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family, with many thanks to Roxanne Held who shared the photo originally on 15 March 2022; viewed online on 19 June 2022 at https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/155036499/…. Hereinafter cited as Family Photo of the Thomas J. and Hannah R. (Smith) Chapman Family.
  8. [S37] 1870 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Thomas and Hannah R. Chapman, Year: 1870; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: M593_776; Page: 673B. Hereinafter cited as 1870 United States Federal Census.
  9. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Charlotte E. “Lottie” (Power) Chapman, Memorial# 103052784. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  10. [S91] 1930 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Price Chapman, Year: 1930; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0017; FHL microfilm: 2340923. Hereinafter cited as 1930 United States Federal Census.
  11. [S1441] 1940 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of W. L. and Irene Cooper, Year: 1940; Census Place: St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: m-t0627-02088; Pages: 7A and 7B; Enumeration District: 11-55.
  12. [S1441] 1940 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of Martin E. and Hazel I. Walker, Year: 1940; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: m-t0627-02106; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 38-18.
  13. [S2304] Price Chapman, Dolores Walker, Irene, Whitney and Charlotte Cooper (December 1940) Visit, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight (Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 2 January 1941, page 4, Alanthus and Community Social News: Price Chapman and Dolores Walker visited last week with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Whit Cooper, and daughter, Charlotte, in St. Joseph. Hereinafter cited as Price Chapman, Dolores Walker, Irene, Whitney and Charlotte Cooper (December 1940) Visit.
  14. [S2307] Price Chapman Visited by Granddaughters Walker and Cooper (December 1940), online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight (Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 12 December 1940, page 9, Alanthus and Community Social News: Deloris Walker and sister Charlotte Cooper visiting their grandfather, Price Chapman. Hereinafter cited as Price Chapman Visited by Granddaughters Walker and Cooper (December 1940).
  15. [S2305] Price Chapman Visit to Cooper Daughter and Son-in-Law (Winter 1945), online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight (Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 29 March 1945, page 9, Social News: Price Chapman has returned home from a visit of several months in the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Cooper, at Kansas City, Kansas. Hereinafter cited as Price Chapman Visit to Cooper Daughter and Son-in-Law (Winter 1945).
  16. [S2306] Charlotte Cooper July 1945 Visit to Grandfather Price Chapman, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight (Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 26 July 1945, page 7, Alanthus and Community Social News: Charlotte Cooper of Kansas City is visiting her grandfather, Price Chapman. Hereinafter cited as Charlotte Cooper July 1945 Visit to Grandfather Price Chapman.
  17. [S2295] 1950 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of James A. and Dolores Jacqueline Buck, United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Shawnee, Wyandotte, Kansas; Roll: 6264; Sheet Number: 1; Enumeration District: 105-20. Hereinafter cited as 1950 United States Federal Census.
  18. [S2178] Missouri, U.S., Death Certificates, 1910-1971, online at www.ancestry.com, death on 18 November 1950 in St. Clair County, Missouri, USA, of Whitney Logan Cooper, age 66, carpenter, building industry, married to Irene Cooper, born 12 December 1883 in Missouri to Coleman Cooper and Josephine Logan, autopsy, cause of death homicide in home, rural Collins, Washington Township, St. Clair County, gunshot wound, gun fired by Irene Cooper, informant Merle Smith, Maryville, burial on 24 November 1950 in Albany, referencing Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1969, Certificate# 38190.
  19. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11, reporting the location of is death as seven miles west of Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri. Hereinafter cited as Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  20. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1, reporting his place of death as near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  21. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, Whitney Logan “Leck” Cooper, Memorial# 18233247, reporting his place of death as Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri.
  22. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, Springfield Leader and Press, (Springfield, Greene County, Missouri), Monday, 20 November 1950, page 11.
  23. [S2312] Newspaper Stories Regarding the 1950 Murder of Whitney Logan Cooper near Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, online at www.newspapers.com, The Albany Ledger, (Albany, Gentry County, Missouri), Thursday, 30 November 1950, page 1.
  24. [S2344] Robert Price Chapman 1953 Obituary, online at Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s, at www.newspapers.com, Stanberry Herald - Headlight, (Stanberry, Missouri), Thursday, 26 February 1953, page 1, obituary for R. P. (Price) Chapman, 86, resident of Stanberry and Alanthus area for most of his life, died Monday morning at a Butler, Missouri nursing home where he had been cared for the past several years; had suffered stroke about four years ago and had been in ill health from that date, burial in High Ridge cemetery; during his residence in Stanberry he had operated a dray business and for a number of years was employed as a mechanic in the Wabash Railroad Company shops, born near Alanthus, son of late Thomas and Hannah Chapman, married in 1890 to Miss Lottie Powers who died in 1917, during early life a farmer, member First Baptist church, left Stanberry about seven years ago to live with granddaughter in Kansas City until condition of his health required nursing home care, his two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Cox of California and Mrs. Irene Cooper of Butler County, Missouri, two brothers, Willis Chapman and M. M. Chapman, both of Stanberry, one sister Mrs. Julia Gage of Alanthus, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren, survive him. Hereinafter cited as Robert Price Chapman 1953 Obituary.
  25. [S2244] Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog, online at https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/… .Caution: This is a beautifully presented collection of "Person Pages" containing a variety of information about specific ancestors submitted by individual contributors -- often, unfortunately, with no sources. If the information we have chosen to pass along here is accurate, we are extremely grateful to the contributor(s) who have shared it. Without documentation, however, we researchers are always forced to question the validity of information. We hope what we have selected to include was originally obtained from family Bible records, or other reliable sources, and is accurate. Although, even when we have found contributed information to be unreliable, inaccurate or incomplete, we consider the information useful as possible clues as we research, citing a lovingly written story, “Susan Ella Nelson was my Grandma”, submitted by Roxanne Plummer on 24 August 2017 which we found attached under Memories for Susan Ella Sissie Dunn, online at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L561-67C. Hereinafter cited as Family Search Ancestry Discovery Blog.
  26. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, online at www.ancestry.com, household of William E. and Mary F. Chapman, Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: 855; Page: 12; Enumeration District: 0091; FHL microfilm: 1240855.

Sallie Ann Chapman1,2

b. 19 July 1920, d. 5 November 2000
Family
Birth*19 July 1920Sallie Ann Chapman was born on 19 July 1920.2 
Marriage*June 1949She likely married William Jackson Garrett, son of John E. Garrett and Cynthia E. Valentine, shortly after their license was issued in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, in June 1949. Jack was 29 years of age and gave his address as 631 Johnston Street, and Sallie Ann was 28 years of age and her address was 220 Bayless Street.1,3,2 
(Wife) Death1 October 1988Sallie became a widow when William Jack Garrett died on 1 October 1988 at age 68.3 
Death*5 November 2000She died on 5 November 2000 at age 802 
Burial* and was buried with her husband in Plot B-2831B, Row 22, of Knoxville National Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.2,3 

Family

 William J. Garrett b. 26 Dec 1919, d. 1 Oct 1988

Citations

  1. [S2161] U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current, online at www.ancestry.com, marriage license issued to William Jackson Garrett, age 29, of 631 Johnston Street, and Sally Ann Chapman, age 28, of 220 Bayless Street, in June 1949 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, referencing The Knoxville News-Sentinel, published on 22 June 1949 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, citing https://www.newspapers.com/image/773063236/,0.39926955,0.7482559,0.50095916&xid=3398. Hereinafter cited as U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current.
  2. [S748] Find a Grave website, which often provides cemetery and tombstone photos, and sometimes personal biographies, that may be obtained from the site, online at www.findagrave.com, Sallie Ann Garrett, Memorial# 49902121. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.
  3. [S748] Find a Grave website, online at www.findagrave.com, PFC William Jack Garrett, Memorial# 49902164.