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Ancestors of Dwight Albert Sharpe

     12.William Hilliard Judson Chapman, born Apr 17, 1808 in Georgia; died Sep 10, 1884 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.He was the son of 24. William D. Chapman and 25. Elizabeth Cowan.He married 13. Temperance Honor Jordan 1830 ¹²³.
     13.Temperance Honor Jordan, born Jan 09, 1812 in Charleston, South Carolina¹²³; died Nov 04, 1860 in Randolph County, Georgia.She was the daughter of 26. Lewis JosephJordan, Esq..
Notes for William Hilliard Judson Chapman:
     William D. Chapman, in the Confederate Army, was paid as a private and as a sergeant in Captain Uriah Goodwyn's Company in the 3rd Regiment of South Carolina Continental Troops, commanded by Col. William Thompson.
The US Census of 1860 listing the family in Randolph County, Georgia, lists all of the children we believe were in the family, except the eldest, a duaghter named Mary Ann.She married in 1854 and, of course, was out of the household by 1860.
     William is my great grandfather.
More About William Hilliard Judson Chapman:
Lived at: Jul 15, 1870, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia ¹²⁴
Location: Cuthbert is about 60 miles south of Columbus, Georgia in the southwest corner of the state.
Occupation: 1860, Farmer listed in Census,Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia
Personal Property Value: Jul 15, 1870, $600 in personal value owned¹²⁴
Property: Jul 15, 1870, Owned Perperty valued at $1,000¹²⁴

Notes for Temperance Honor Jordan:
Temperance was born the year that Charles Dickens (2/7/1812 - 6/9/1870), the famous English novelist, was born.
Source: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensbio1.html
Church rolls for 1835 in Haynesville, near Perry, Houston County, Georgia with William Chapman, Temperance Chapman and an Elizabeth Brown all listed as member.
Source: One World Tree posted April 13, 2003 by Robert Sonfield of Houston, Texas, e-mail address:[email protected]

More About Temperance Honor Jordan:
Alt. Birth Location: Jan 09, 1812, Charleston ¹²⁵
Alternate Death Location: Nov 04, 1860, Houston, Colorado ¹²⁶
More About William Chapman and Temperance Jordan:
Marriage: 1830 ¹²⁷

Children of William Chapman and Temperance Jordan are:

Mary Ann Chapman, born 1834; married Andrew J. Morris Sep 18, 1854 in Randolph County, Georgia.

More About Andrew Morris and Mary Chapman:
Marriage: Sep 18, 1854, Randolph County, Georgia

ii.

Temperance Chapman, born 1839.

More About Temperance Chapman:
Lived at: Jul 15, 1870, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia - lived with parents ¹²⁸
Location: 1900, Census located in Miller County, Georgia
Never Married: 1900, Census said she lived with Sister & brother-in-law Allen

iii.

Dr. William Paine Chapman, born Jul 02, 1837 in Georgia; died Jul 10, 1905 in Woodville,Tyler County, Texas; married Dora Cecilia Swearingen Aug 20, 1867 in Miller County, Georgia; born Feb 18, 1847 in Dooley, Georgia; died May 30, 1933 in Texas.

Notes for Dr. William Paine Chapman:
He became a physician, and was known as Dr. Will Chapman.He lived and served his patients in Angelina County, Texas.Dr. Will Chapman was listed in the 1880 Census of Tyler County, Texas.He was indicated a physician in the 1860 Census at Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia.

More About Dr. William Paine Chapman:
Lived at: Jun 08, 1860, Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia ¹²⁹
Location: 1880, Census located him in Tyler County, Texas
Military Rank: Captain
Military service: Company "D" 51 Georgia Regiment Volunteers, Sims Brigade, Kershaws Division, Longstreets Corps, Lee's Army of the Confederate Army
Moved: Jul 1870, Moved from Georgia to Texas
Occupation: 1880, Physician as Census reported
Served: Confederate solder, infantry, about 3.5 years.

Notes for Dora Cecilia Swearingen:
The same month Draa was born, Thomas Alva Edison (2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931), the American inventor holding 1,093 patents, was born.
Source: http://www.thomasedison.com/biog.htm

More About William Chapman and Dora Swearingen:
Marriage: Aug 20, 1867, Miller County, Georgia

iv.

Captain Robert Duncan Chapman, born Dec 08, 1839 in Houston County, Georgia; died May 30, 1933 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; married Eugenia Alice McNeil Nov 21, 1867 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia; born Aug 10, 1845 in Harris County, Georgia; died Jun 22, 1906 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.

Notes for Captain Robert Duncan Chapman:
Robert (Bob) Duncan Chapman, my grand uncle, was the brother of James Herschell Chapman.Robert was born in Georgia, and was living in Georgia when the War Between the States erupted in 1861.We do have information that his Confederate Army experience was serving as a Captain of Company E, 55th Georgia Volunteers, which he organized and formed with his leadership.Robert is the great grandfather of Robert Sonfield of Houston, Texas, one of the few Chapman line descendents who has exchanged genealogical information with me.
Robert Duncan Chapman was born just three days after the birth of George Armstrong Custer (12/5/1839 - 6/25/1876), the famous American cavalry officer who died in battle.One of the most chronicled events in the history of the American West was the famous Battle of the Little Big Horn, otherwise known as Custer's Last Stand. Within a short period of time, Custer and his troops were annihilated by the full might of an estimated 5,000 Sioux Indians who were led by Chief Sitting Bull and Chief Crazy Horse.
Source:http://www.garryowen.com
After the War Between the States, Robert ran a store in Georgia.He later came to Tyler County in East Texas, and opened a store in 1872.When the Texas and New Orleans Railroad was built north from Beaumont, and the southeast Angelina County community, Huntington, was on the line, Robert established himself in Huntington.He was Huntington's first Postmaster, taking the job in July 23, 1900 as it initially opened.Robert is regarded by some as "the father of Huntington."He was the first to build a store in Huntington; a mammoth general store.
On June 18, 1900, E. A. Blount of Nacognoches and W. J. Townsend, Sr. of Lufkin, established the town site of Huntington on that railroad line by filing with the Angelina County Court a plot plan showing the location of its lots and blocks.On Saturday, June 22, they conducted a public auction of these town lots.Among the successful bidders were Capt. Robert D. Chapman and Dr. James Herschell Chapman (brothers).
Robert's store was described in the Lufkin Weekly Tribune in 1902 as having an "immense stock of everything you can think of, from a handle to a full stock of goods of any description.He is also in connection with his son, at the head of the Huntington Piling and Tie Company.In connection with his mercantile business, he also has an undertaking establishment."
Robert Duncan Chapman was shown in the census of 1840 as a one year old in the home of his parents in Houston County, Georgia.In 1850 the census found him in Randolph County, Georgia.The 1860 Census of Randolph County, Georgia listed him as a clerk and living in the home of his parents.The 1870 census found him in Cotton Hill, Clay County, Georgia as a dry goods merchant, age 30, with his wife, Eugenia, age 22, married with no children.The 1880 census found him in Jefferson County, Texas, married with three children.The 1910 Census found him in Dallas, Texas as the head of household with his daughter, Martha, and two grandchildren, Robert Leon Sonfield and George McNeill Sonfield.
Robert Duncan Chapman published A Georgia Solder in the Civil War in 1929 when he was 91 years old and living in Houston, Texas.In it, he states that he left Cuthbert, Georgia in 1871 for Texas, with his wife and son.They traveled across Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana to Morgans Point, Louisiana, where they took the Whitney Steamer, a sea-going vessel, to Galveston.From there, they took the Stonewall River Steamer for Sabine Pass, and later went up the Neches River to Woodville, Tyler County, Texas, where they settled and lived some years, Robert laboring as a farmer, then as a lumberman. Then Robert became a traveling salesman for a Galveston firm, the Wallis Landes Company.He served them about 18 years.During these traveling years, he lived in Woodville, Mineola and Nacognoches, where his family was mostly raised.After leaving that work is when he spent time described in Angelina County from 1900 to 1905.
His book goes on to say he moved to Dallas in 1905 for several years, including being recorded in the 1910 census there.For three of the years in Dallas, he was in charge of the entrance gate to the Dallas State Fair.Then he returned to Nacognoches till 1912.It was then that he moved to Houston, Texas.He claims that he was a sitting bailiff for about 11 years for the Harris County Grand Juries at Houston, Texas, which would have been from about age 80 to 91!Robert claims to have been a professing member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for more than 80 years.

More About Captain Robert Duncan Chapman:
Alternate Death Date: Aug 07, 1934, Houston, Harris County, Texas ¹³⁰
Lived at: Jun 08, 1860, Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia ¹³¹
Occupation: Jun 08, 1860, Clerk¹³¹

Notes for Eugenia Alice McNeil:
On her first birthday, Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of over $500,000 made it possible.
While the institution named after James Smithson enjoys worldwide renown, we know little about the man who left $508,318 to the people of the United States to establish such an institution.
An English scientist who conducted research in chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, Smithson lived and traveled in several European countries. His schooling and interests afforded him the opportunity to mix with many noted scientists.
Smithson was born in France in 1765. Named James Lewis Macie, he was the illegitimate son of Hugh Smithson, who later became the first Duke of Northumberland, and Elizabeth Keate Hungerford Macie, a widow of royal blood. Smithson and his half brother Henry Louis Dickinson inherited a considerable estate from their mother's family.
Source:http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Smithson-to-Smithsonian/who_01.html
Eugenia was born August 10, 1845 in Harris County, Georgia, the daughter of William W. McNeil and Martha Goodson.Eugenia died June 22, 1906 in Houston, Texas (coincidentally "Harris" County as well) and is buried in Nacognoches, Texas.She died while a resident at Boyd's Sanitarium in Houston.

More About Robert Chapman and Eugenia McNeil:
Marriage: Nov 21, 1867, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.

Sarah Catherine Chapman, born 1847 in Houston County, Georgia; married Counsil Council Allen Sheffield Bef. 1867; born Feb 14, 1845 in Early County, Georgia; died May 14, 1902 in Georgia.

Notes for Sarah Catherine Chapman:
She was called by her middle name, Catherine, or her nick name, Kitty.Her middle name use is noted in the 1860 US Census of Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia.

More About Sarah Catherine Chapman:
Lived at: Jun 08, 1860, Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia¹³¹

Notes for Counsil Council Allen Sheffield:
He was born the very same day as was Qunitin Hogg (2/14/1845 - 1/17/1903), an English philanthropist and social reformer.
Source:http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9040737
He was born the year that Congress decided finally that national elections would be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even numbered years.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20060123.html?th&emc=th

More About Council Sheffield and Sarah Chapman:
Marriage: Bef. 1867

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Elizabeth A. Chapman, born 1849 in Georgia¹³¹; married Silas Sheffield; born 1848 in Florida; died Oct 02, 1882 in Miller, Georgia.

More About Elizabeth A. Chapman:
Lived at: Jun 08, 1860, Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia¹³¹

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Dr. James Herschell Chapman, born Oct 02, 1853 in Cuthbert, Randolph Country, Georgia; died Mar 02, 1925 in Angelina County, Texas; married (1) Minola Manning 1878 in Homer, Angelina County, Texas; married (2) Margaret Lavina Abney 1899; married (3) Josephine T. Moore Jan 18, 1914 in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas.