Mrs. Mary Chapman, 19 July 1969 - Obituary - Coke County, TX

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The Robert Lee Observer, 24 July 1969, Robert Lee, TX

Mrs. Mary Chapman, Coke's Oldes Citizen, Dies at 100

	Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Booth Chapman, 100, were held
at 2 p.m. Monday in Robert Massie Funeral Home in San Angelo.  Burial
was in Divide Cemetery in Coke County.  The Rev. Durward L. Rutland,
pastor of First Baptist Church in Water Valley, officiated.
	Mrs. Chapman died in a Fort Worth hospital at 12:05 a.m. 
Saturday.
	Mrs. Chapman was born Dec. 12, 1868 in Tupelo, Miss.  She was
married to Andeson S. Chapman, Jan. 8, 1890, in Egan community.  He
died in 1924.
	The couple lived in the Egan community before coming to Coke
County in 1891 via covered wagon to settle in the Divide community.
She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jim Booth, who settled
in Texas in 1883.
	Mrs. Chapman and her husband homesteaded land near Divide and
ultimately acquired 1,760 acres of land at $1 an acre - which was still
in Mrs. Chapman's possession.
	Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Susie Shelton of Burleson,
Mrs. Alice Lobb of Cleburne and Mrs. Nannie O'Neal of San Pablo, Calif.; 
two sons, Bill Chapman of Quemado and Cooper Chapman of Water Valley;
25 grandchildren, 43 great granchildren and 21 great-great grandchildren.
	Pallbearers were grandsons.

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