Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Chapman, Alice DeVane  May 12, 1940
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, May, 17, 1940  No. 46
DEATH OF MRS. J.A. CHAPMAN DIVIDES LONGEST-WED COUPLE
Death has parted Schley county's oldest married couple, Mr. and Mrs. James 
Asbury Chapman of near Ellaville, who didn't tire of each other's 
companionship during almost sixty-four and a half years.  Mrs. Chapman passed 
on Sunday morning at 6 o'clock after an illness of more than six months.  She 
was 82 years old.  Unable to remember when they fell in love because, in her 
words to which he agreed, "we've always been sweethearts", the Chapmans 
reached their 64th anniversary of their wedding last December 16.  "We aren't 
tired of each other yet," she told a representative of The Sun.  Their 
marriage, when she was 18 and he was 20, climaxed an association that 
progressed from playing with pine top dolls while almost in infancy to "steady 
courtin" on Sunday afternoons as youths.  Last survivor of 13 children of a 
prominent pioneer family in Schley county, Mrs. Chapman was born November 15, 
1857, the year the county was formed.  She was the former Miss Alice 
Chesterfield DeVane, daughter of John DeVane and Liza Sellars DeVane.  With 
the exception of about three years spent in Albany, the couple lived their 
entire life in the country near their birthplaces.  She was a member of 
Hopewell Methodist church.  A host of persons to whom she endeared herself 
during a life consecrated to Christian teachings are grieved by her death.  
Relatives and friends filled Hopewell church Monday afternoon to pay her final 
tribute at funeral services conducted by the Rev. W.S. Johnson.  Burial was in 
the church cemetery.  Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Lily DeVane, Albany; 
four sons, Chesterfield, Henry, and Compton Chapman, all of Schley county, and 
J. Martin Chapman, LeGrand, Cal.; and 15 grandchildren.  Pallbearers were 
Harry Malone, Linton Tondee, Frank DeVane, Herbert Chapman, James Chapman and 
Edwin Chapman.


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