Carroll County GA Bible Benjamin Franklin Chapman, Sr. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Bill Stephenson" http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll.htm Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents: Bible of Benjamin Franklin Chapman, Sr. In the possession of Mrs. J. W. Phillips of Redan, Georgia which is near Lithonia, Georgia Original transcription by Mrs. Guy Wells Transcribed from original transcription by William L. Stephenson, Jr. Material in (parenthesis) is from the Research Papers of Dorothy Chapman Pitmon. Benjamin Chapman Sr., born Sept. 3, 1779. Died Jan. 24, 1841 (buried in Macedonia Cemetery near Lithonia, Ga.) Married Phoebe Hart, January 12, 1809 Born June 13, 1792 Died August 29, 1876 (buried Methodist Cemetery Bowden, Ga.) (Lived with daughter, Elvira Stephenson, Carroll Co., Ga.) Children: Elizabeth H. born Nov. 1, 1809 died July 31, 1857 James Hart born Sept. 20, 1811 (buried in Tanner’s Cemetery) Clayton Co., GA. Rebecca Ann born February 25, 1814, died December 7, 1892 (Married Mr. John K. McCarter, born 1809) Elvira Roberts born Aug. 9, 1816 (Married Mr. Stephenson of Carroll County, Ga.) ((died September 19, 1898 - files of William L. Stephenson)) Mary Narcissa born March 9, 1819 (Married Mr. Jackson of Cobb Co., GA. Buried Norcross, GA) Eli Thomson born Nov. 4, 1825 (Lived in Dekalb Co., GA) (See Whitley Cemetery, Lithonia, Ga., in S. E. Lot has marker) (He has measles in prison in Columbus Ohio, during the war between the States, Co. D. So. Ga. Regiment) Benjamin Franklin born July 28, 1834 (Married Miss Webb) Susan Amanda born June 21, 1827 (Married R. T. Hull in Conyers, Ga.) Nancy Almeda born November 9, 1829 died Aug. 9, 1834 John Samuel born Sept. 18, 1832 (Married Miss Hull)