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Note: !BIRTH: 16 APR 1786 NEW JERSEY (from grave marker Weaver Mauso- leum). Dean Dubois indicated that it was in Burlington County, N.J. but offered no documentation. !PARENTS' FAMILY MRIN: MRIN 22 William (Billy) CHAPMAN-145/(posssibly) Hannah SMITH-32. REF(3) gives him title "Rev.". !MARRIAGE: MRIN11 20 SEP 1807 CHAMPAIGN, OHIO - Record Vol A, pg 5 #43 to Henry WEAVER RIN16 by John THOMAS MG. (Marriage record mis-named her as "Mary") !DEATH: 21 NOV 1849 URBANA, CHAMPAIGN, OHIO. REF: grave marker. Item from the Western Citizen & Urbana Gazette from the Urbana Public Library archive. Original date and page - 23 Nov 1849, page 3: Died on Wed. evening, Nov. 21st, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Nancy Weaver, wife of Henry Weaver, of the vicinity of this place, "in the 64th yr. of her age", in full prospect of a better inheritance beyond this vale of tears. !BURIAL: "Cerise 4 file, pg 4" Inscription on monument's east side as copied by Elizabeth ROBBINS-225, wife of Robert Benjamin WEAVER-220 and received by compiler 27 FEB 1980: "Simeon WEAVER - d. Sept. 18, 1862 - age 49 yr 11 mo 10 da" on Lot 28 Sec 45 Oakdale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio. On the north side of the monument, it reads: "Nancy - wife of Henry Weaver - d. Nov. 21, 1849 - age 63 yrs, 7 mo, 5 da". The "why" of this inscription is not known since Henry WEAVER had a Mausoleum built on Lot #28 - Sect. #45 which, among others, carries this inscription: "Nancy Chapman, wife of Henry - born in N.J & d. in Urbana, Ohio Nov. 21, 1849 in the 54th yr of her age." (Note: The discrepancy of her age needs to be checked for accuracy. Also the year of building of the mausoleum if later than Nancy (and child - William Henry WEAVER - Oct. 13, 1848) dates of death, their remains might have been moved after inscription was already on the Simeon WEAVER monument(?). (Later research indicated that Simeon WEAVER in his will ordered the monument in honor of his parents. Henry and Nancy WEAVER - he was out-lived by both of his parents. This accounts for the inscriptions in two places). !CENSUS(1): The 1782 census of Hampshire County VA which adjoined Berke- ley County at that time included the names of William CHAP- MAN with 5 in family, Charles and Daniel RECTOR as well as several ROSS families (William ROSS name appeared in the Berkeley County 1787 tax list, but not in the Hampshire County census). These family names were among the first settlers of Mad River Township in Ohio, apparently living for some years in Mason County KY enroute. !RESIDENCES: New Jersey - Hampshire County. Virginia - Mad River twp and Urbana, Champaign Co. Ohio, Probably the CHAPMAN family arrived in Ohio in company with the William ROSS family, ROSS' wife being a RECTOR, a family in the 1790s of Mason County KY and Charles RECTOR's wife was Sarah CHAPMAN.. !SOURCE(1): Weaver Mausoleum, Oakdale Cem. Urbana (Personally viewed by this compiler.) !SOURCE(2): The HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY, page 683 under 'German Town- ship' states: "In 1798, William Chapman and William Ross, with their families came, the former from Virginia and Ross from Mason County, Ky. Chapman, his wife and two or three children reared their cabin on the farm now owned by Silas Gard in Section 10, having entered that and several other (word unreadable) in this vicinity. To this couple in the year 1800, was born a son, Jesse Chapman, the first white child born in the territory now comprising this township. (see compiler's "15. History - County" file folder for rest of quotation . !REFERENCE(3): Page 86 - Abstracts of Obituaries in the WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1834-1850 (De Pauw University, Greencastle IN) published by The Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society, Indianspolis 1988. Photocopy received from James Harold JOHNSON RIN941 in compiler's WEAVER misc. file fold- er. Noted here as a matter of information; listing adds nothing not already confirmed. !REMARKS(1): Don DuBois, who in 1987 lived at 1700 SE 146th Ct., Vancover WA 98684, (address no longer valid May 7, 1989), a direct descendant of William CHAPMAN and a family genealogist in his letter of 15 SEP 1987 states among other things: "Wil- liam CHAPMAN's daughter was Hannah CHAPMAN named after his wife Hannah Smith CHAPMAN. It is my guess that they 'nick- named' Hannah to avoid household confusion and that was where the Nancy came in since there was no "Nancy" in the William CHAPMAN household by birth." He also said: "I do not believe that William Chapman "Billy" was ever in Virginia. He served in the Revolutionary War from New Jersey and then came to Ohio in 1797 or thereabouts". Compiler's comment: "Nowhere else has the compiler seen his 2nd great grandmoth- er referred to by any other name than "Nancy" except in the Champaign County Marriage records noted above; it, too, is the name inscribed on the Weaver Mausoleum where she is interred." (Compiler's note: Webster's Collegiate Diction- ary gives "Nancy" as one of the diminutives for "Hannah".) There was a Rev. War veteran named William CHAPMAN and here I quote from a letter dated 20 Mar 1995 from Gilbert K. ALFORD, Corresponding Secretary of the Chapman Family Association: "He was born in Somerset NJ in April 1756 and lived within 22 miles of New Brunswick. He served as a private in Captain LOGAN's Company, the Regiment of Col. Frelinghuysin. An affidavit made by William to get a pension indicates he lived for four years after the war in Sussex (not sure of the translation of that) and then ever since in Washington and Greene Counties in Pennsylvania........." !REFERENCE(1): Compiler's "Pink" folder - "Marriages". Marriage Records, Probate Court, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio 1805 to 1865. Volume A #43. Compiled under the direc- tion of the Urbana Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- lution in 1934 and 1935. "Henry Mary 20 SEP 1807 John Thomas MG #43" !ANOMALY: Why there are two grave markers for Nancy, one on her batchelor son, Simeon's monument, and the other in the Weaver Mausoleum built by her husband, Henry Weaver is not known. Also Simeon's marker give age at death as "age 63 yrs, 7 mo, 5 da" in agreement with newspaper account: "in the 64th yr. of her age" while Mausoleum marker says: "in the 54th yr of her age". See the paragraph above marked "!BURIAL" which clarifies the two grave markers. #####
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