Content-Type: text/plain INELKHAR-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: #1 [INELKHAR-L] Re: Lavina (Bowman) C [ChapieG@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from INELKHAR-D, send a message to INELKHAR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:36:17 EST From: ChapieG@aol.com To: INELKHAR-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: [INELKHAR-L] Re: Lavina (Bowman) Chapman Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi, I am looking for information about my grandmother, Lavina (BOWMAN) CHAPMAN as well as other relation that lived in Elkhart, Ind. Lavina's birth date was about 1859, in Elkhart. She is AKA, Louise and Lou. She married my grandfather, Melville CHAPMAN, the date is unknown, in Elkhart Indiana. Melville owned a considerable amount of property in downtown Elkhart that he inherited from his parents, Henry P. and Louisa J. CHAPMAN both lived in Elkhart in the 1850's - 1880's. Melville was born: 8/16/1855, Died: 11/13/1937. Melville is buried in Grace lawn Cemetery on Middlebury Street, Elkhart. Lavina and Melville CHAPMAN had six children, all born in Elkhart Ind. Harry S. CHAPMAN b: 7/12/1878 mar: Susan J. ARNOLD on 8/18/1918. Edgar R. CHAPMAN b: 3/3/1880 mar: Lela MINNES died: 9/5/1925. Arthur M. CHAPMAN b: 4/1/1882 mar: Jesse SMITH died: 4/4/1958. George E. CHAPMAN b: 9/8/1883 mar: Anna S. (HEBEL) BAKER died: 3/15/1945. Ettie L. CHAPMAN b: 5/3/1885 died: 6/16/1885. Charles H. CHAPMAN b: 8/31/1886 mar: Rachel S. AYERS died: 4/13/1955. Frederick L. CHAPMAN b: 12/1/1889 mar: Edith N. SAME died: 2/4/1965. Lavina and my grandfather were divorced about 1891 and Lavina moved to Toledo, Ohio. She married a Frank HITCH, date unknown, who owned a restaurant and/or bakery there. Any help on establishing Lavina's birth date, marriage and death date would be appreciated. Does anyone have any connection or information with the following surnames who are from Elkhart, Ind.? Levi BOWMAN, Lavina's father; Susan ARNOLD, Harry's wife; Lela MINNES, Edgar's wife: Anna (HEBEL) BAKER George's wife; or Virgil BAKER, Anna (HEBEL) BAKER'S first husband, who was from Jeffersonville, Ind. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, >>>George in Toledo<<< -------------------------------- End of INELKHAR-D Digest V99 Issue #16 **************************************