Schley County GaArchives Photo Group.....R.N. Chapmans' 50th Anniv. 1939 November 22, 1939
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Source:             The Ellaville Sun  Friday, November 22, 1939  No. 21
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R.N. CHAPMANS PLAN CELEBRATION OF GOLDEN WEDDING
Never say anything to your husband you wouldn't want him to say to you.  
That's all there is to getting along.  That is what Mrs. R.N. Chapman of 
Concord community in Schley county says.  And her husband agrees.  They should 
know what they are talking about, for they have been testing the idea for 50 
years.  The Chapmans celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary Sunday with a 
family reunion at their home.  

They met in Marion county when both were 18.  "I couldn't do anything with 
him," recalls Mrs. Chapman.  "We lived only a mile apart and he wanted to come 
to see me every week.  I told him everybody would tease me if he came so 
often!"  "Now," she adds with a smile, "they come to see a girl every night."

She was Anna McCorkle, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. McCorkle.  They were 
married in the evening of November 26, 1889.

Mr. Chapman tells of how "the boys serenaded us that night by 'shooting 
anvils' ".  A popular sport in the old days, this was done by placing two 
anvils together and filling the hollow with gunpowder and igniting it.  The 
explosion could be heard for miles.

Both say they don't believe any two people can live together for half a 
century without having a disagreement, but declare that always remembering 
never to say anything to your companion that you wouldn't want to hear 
yourself will see anyone through.

The Chapmans have nine children:  Mrs. B.H. Tucker, Wichita, Kansas; Herbert, 
Chester, Lewis Clyde and John T. Chapman, all of Macon; Wallace, Albany; 
Robert, Waveland, Miss.; Elton, Schley county; and seven grandchildren.

Lewis Chapman married seven years ago on his parents' wedding anniversary, but 
selection of the date was a coincidence.



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