INQUIRIES ARCHIVE

A few weeks ago I was helping my grandmother (Evelyn Aldrege Schaal) go through some boxes to redo some family scrapbooks/albums and came across a binder full of my grandfather's family tree (Alfred R. Schaal). I am curious to know more about his side of the family and how we came to America. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me. My grandfather passed many years before I was born and none of us (my mother, grandmother, aunts, and uncles) are unable to tell me anything of his lineage.
What we do know is the following: Ammyson Chapman married Mary Ann Droullard. They had Florence P. Chapman who married Hubert Schuelter. They had Lena Maud Schuelter who married Henry Schaal (my greatgreat grandfather). They had Russell Henry Schaal who married Ella Birdie Jamison. They had Alfred Russell Schaal (12/26/1919-10/10/1979) who married Evelyn Aldredge (which resulted in at last count 14 grandchildren and 14(and counting) greatgrandchildren) They had Allyson Rebecca Schaal who married Timothy Dale Moore. Which resulted in me Courtney Michelle Moore.

Elaine Chapman Booth has contacted CFA in reference to the DNA Project, seeking information for Amos Chapman born approx. 1745 in Cumberland Co PA. Amos’s father was John Chapman who died in Shelby County Kentucky around 1820 and may have been the son of a William Chapman who lived in Cumberland Co PA in 1750-52. Amos had a son, John Chapman born 1791 and married Betsy Rodman. They had sons William Rodman, John A, Amos B, and Hugh Rodman Chapman.

I found the Chapman family website and was wondering if I could query if anyone would have any information on Chapman's in New York State.

Andrew Austin or Austin Andrew Chapman who died in Livingston County New York in 1845. His brother was Silas F. Chapman and Silas' wife was Lucia Ross. Andrew's wife was Susan Joslin Chapman b. 1814. She removed to Michigan with the oldest daughter Celia and remarried Russell Lewis. Two children remained in New York with their Uncle Silas, Harriet and Andrew, I have found them on the census records in his household in both 1850 and 1860. Harriet Chapman later married Charles Dyer Geer and they lived in Michigan. Andrew lived in Wyoming county New York, he never moved from the state.

If anyone has any information that could help me narrow down a search for parents of both Austin Chapman and Susan Joslin, I would appreciate it.

Andrew Chapman, b. March 1807 Ohio, d. Sept 1901, Zanesville, Ohio, m. Nancy (Lake?). Andrew's mother is cited as Elizabeth Myers (Burgess?). Children include James Willis, Thomas, Phillip, George, Perley, Albert, Lavinia, John, Leote, Sarah, and Mary. I have not been able to document his father's name. There are a lot of online trees that cite his father's name as William but none of them have any documentation. I feel like there may be some conflation with similar couples but can't run down the specifics.