LAKE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: Mrs. Esther Jane CHAPMAN (d. 1941)
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From the Painesville Telegraph, Lake County, OH, Wednesday, 10 December 1941

         PAINESVILLE WOMAN DIES OF INJURIES SUFFERED IN CRASH

  ASHTABULA, Dec. 10- Just 11 days after she was seriously injured in a 
tractor trailer automobile crash on U. S. Route 20, about a mile west 
of here, Mrs. Esther Jane Chapman, 36, wife of Clyde Chapman, 121 
Gillette St., Painesville died of her injuries in Ashtabula General 
Hospital. 

  Her death is the 34th as a result of auto crashes on Ashtabula County 
highways this year, and brings the 1941 toll to within the all time 
high of 36 recorded in 1935, authorities said.

  Death came to Mrs. Chapman mother of six children, at 5:45 P. M. 
Tuesday. She had hovered on the brink of death, fighting to recover 
from a fractured skull, fractured rib and knee and lacerations, ever 
since being rushed to the hospital Sunday morning, Nov. 31. her 
condition had been consistently described as poor, and she had been 
unconscious until late last week.

  Her husband, 42, and two sons, Richard, 17, and 16 injured less 
seriously in the same crash, were released from the hospital late last 
week.

   Mrs. Chapman had been a Painesville resident for the last 13 years but 
she had been a member of the United Brethren church at Rawson, Hancock 
county, Ohio, where she was born Nov. 10, 1905.

  Besides her husband and the two boys injured at the same time as she 
was, Mrs. Chapman leaves another son, Jackie; three daughters, Irene, 
Wanda and Gloria; Her mother Mrs. George Cantner, who made her home 
with the Chapmans, and two brothers, Wallace Marsh of Lima and Glee 
Cantner of Rawson.

  Friends may call at the Spear Funeral Home where rites will be 
conducted at 3 P.M. Thursday by Dr. James A. Burns, pastor of the 
Painesville Church of Christ.

  Burial will be in Perry where the Chapmans had lived before coming to 
Painesville to make their home.