Caldwell County MO Archives History .....WALDO FAMILY IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP - 1868 
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THE WALDO FAMILY IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP - 1868
	Narrator:  Mrs. Louisa N. Chapman, 84, of Breckenridge

     Mrs. Chapman is the daughter of Asel Waldo and Aurelia A. McNutt, both of 
Lake City, Ohio.  On her father's side, she descends from Seth Sprague who 
fought for his country in the Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.  In 1846, Asel 
Waldo took up a homestead in Marquette County, Wisconsin, and in 1868 joined 
the land rush to Caldwell County, Missouri.  His farm was near the site where 
the next year the new town, Proctorville, was founded by Dan Proctor.  
A "ramshackle" school house was built in the corner of a cornfield and Mrs. 
Chapman, who had had some good schooling in Wisconsin, was the second teacher 
there.
     The Waldos kept sheep and sent their wool to Berlin and Brunswick to be 
carded and made into rolls 18 inches long and as big around as one's finger, 
from which the mother and the girls knit the family stockings and mittens.  
Mrs. Chapman and her mother both spun and today she can still run an old 
spinning wheel.  While both knew how to weave, they did little of their own 
weaving but put it out to an expert woman who did it for the community.
     At the age of 22, she married J.N. Chapman and he first helped her father 
with the large tract of land, and later bought a part of the farm.  They have 
three children, Elizabeth Morse, W.W. of Braymer and Asel B. of Madison 
County, Mo.
     Mrs. Chapman recalls in the late 60's, still in the Reconstruction days 
after the war, that her father and Mrs. Chapman both had to take an oath of 
allegiance to the government before they could vote.  Those days women 
sufferage was just a wild dream and any woman who wanted to vote was a kind of 
a freak, and rather unladylike.
     Interviewed  1934.


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