CHAPMAN. We are called upon to record the death of Mr. A. A. Chapman, at Ridgeville Corners, O., on Tuesday, Aug. 5th, 1890, in the 79th year of his age. The deceased had long been a sufferer from kidney trouble, but the more immediate cause of his death was a paralysis of the bowels. The funeral services were performed at the M. E. Church, of which he was a member (and had been for over a half century) under the direction of Rev. N. S. Worden assisted by Rev. Dunlap of the C. B. church and Rev. L G. Blanchard, of Oberlin, O. Mr. Chapman was born at Smithville, Chenaugo county, N. Y. Aug. 15, 1811, and therefore was aged 78 years, 11 months and 11 days. He was one of the pioneer inhabitants of Northern Ohio, coming with his father to Lorain county, on the Western Reserve, when it was nearly all an unbroken wilderness its principal inhabitants being the red man of the forest. This was in 1817. His ancestors were all of the old Puritan stock, he being in the ninth generation from Robt. Chapman, who came from Hull, in England, in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of the Saybrook Colony Company. His grandfather, Constant Chapman was a soldier of the Revolution, serving for six years under the immediate command of Washington and for some time a member of his body guard. He afterward became a seaman, and Captain of a merchant vessel trading in silks to Lisbon, Portugal and on the South American coast. I. F. Chapman, son of Constant Chapman, and father of the subject of this sketch, was also a sailor and a soldier of the war of 1812, and was captured by the British at Queenstown. It will be seen therefore that the deceased has in his veins not only Puritan, but patriotic blood. In the war of the Rebellion, being too old to carry a musket himself he gave three of his sons to the Union army. He also had two half-brothers in the late war, one was killed at the battle of South Mountain and the other wounded at Armstrong Hill near Knoxville. In 1832 he was married to Miss Margaret Taylor, with whom he lived in the most perfect concord for 64 years, celebrating his golden wedding in Sept., 1882. He was the father of seven children, one of whom was drowned in 1845 and another was killed by a falling tree in January, 1878, the rest are living. Mr. Chapman was a man of strong, but generous impulses, and in moral character unimpeachable, full of zeal and ambition. He came into Henry county in 1866, for the purpose of bettering his financial interests at an age when most men think of retiring from hard labor, his remains were placed in Locust Grove cemetery.

W. T. O.
Ridgeville Corners, 0., Ang. 8th, '90.