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I'm helping someone trace her Chapman roots and am struggling to find information on her great-great grandfather Elijah Chapman. I'm wondering if your association has information about Ohio branches of the family that might help me in my search. He was born around 1807 in Connecticut and then lived in the state of New York for awhile before ending up in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he died 22 Oct 1869. He was a butcher and is enumerated as such in the 1850 US Census in Brutus, Cayuga County, New York, and in 1860 in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio. He married Harriet Emeline Berry (I don't have a marriage record or date) and had at least four children: Helen E Chapman (m. David van Epps), Elton K. Chapman (m. Mary L. Woodbury), Emeline Celia "Emma" Chapman (m. A D Belknap), and Ada Bird Chapman (m. George H. Wood and Edson T. Stanclift). If there's any information you could share with me or if there's someone else you know I could contact for information, it would be greatly appreciated.

I have been working on my family history and have an Elizabeth Chapman (B: 31 July 1813) Smith, Tennessee who married a James Cheek (B: 22 October 1814) both are buried in Macedonia Cemetery, Dallas County Missouri.

I have been trying to puzzle out who her parents were and where that leads me – initial research had me going all the way back to the settlements of Jamestown but I do not know if that is correct or not and am hoping perhaps you could shed some light on the issue or put me in contact with someone who may be able to.

I believe from research that Elizabeth Chapman’s father was a William Chapman (B: 1790 Tennessee) – research indicates Elizabeth and James were married Tennessee in 1832 and migrated to Dallas County Missouri area in 1836.

When I dig around her father’s marriages and family it gets rather murky but information from other researchers on Ancestry.com eventually tie her father into the linage going back to the Jamestown Virginia Chapman’s – but I am not finding a clear tie in and would like some help if possible to determine if this is in fact true or another group of Chapman’s all together.

I believe some of the Chapman relatives were / are still living in the Buffalo Missouri area as I recall grandma Childress referencing them but not sure.

James Cheek – Elizabeth Chapman
James J Cheek B: 4 April 1846 – Mary Higginbotham B: 6 Mar 1848
Mary Belle Cheek B: 1872 – Lorena S Childress B: 12 Oct 1869
Roy W Childress B: 21 Apr 1898 Katha
Lewey B: 23 Jun 1897
Nellie D Childress B: 29 Oct 1921 – Elmer C Geittmann B: 6 May 1924

I am the great great great great great granddaughter of Elizabeth (Chapman) and Orin Burlingame. We are trying to put together as family history and have reached a dead end. We found their names and wedding date on your website. We are hoping that you can help us out if Elizabeth is part of your family history. We have no records of what her parents’ names were or the names of Orin's parents. Please let us know if you can or cannot help us.

My wife is Dorothy (Peppers) Mickey. Her mother was Emma Lavona Chapman who was the daughter of William Biggs Chapman, granddaughter of William Wooten Chapman, great granddaughter of Francis Marion Chapman. We currently have a book called Chapman Yesteryears by Florence (Chapman) Pike, 1977. Is there a more recent version of the Chapman family?