Susan
Wisemore married Washington Chapman on 1 March 1846 in Jasper County, Illinois.[i]
Washington was a farmer until his death probably in 1865-1866. The 1870 census
shows widowed Susan Chapman in Granville, Jasper, Ill with Jefferson 15, Louisa
11, Sarah 9, Elizabeth 7, Charles 6, and Ira 4.[ii]
On 23 Jan
1872[iii]
Susan Wisemore Chapman married William Myers in Jasper County and by 1880, the
family had moved to Phillips County, Kansas.
In 1880
Sarah is married to Thomas Whitmarsh and the mother of Stella Whitmarsh.[iv]
Thomas is a farmer in Glenwood Township.
In 1885, the
family had grown to include son Fredrick Nelson and they were still in Glenwood
Township.[v]
On Friday,
29 April 1885, Sarah hooked up a team of horses to the wagon and with her
un-named infant traveled to Republican City, Kansas to meet her husband,
Thomas, who had been in Iowa on business for a week. Arriving in Republican
City, Sarah found that Thomas had already left for home with a neighbor.
Unfortunately, as she attempted to cross Crow Creek, the water rose and swept
the team away, capsizing the wagon. Sarah Chapman Whitmarsh’s body was
recovered but not the body of her infant child.
Sarah
Whitmarsh was survived by her husband, Thomas, and children Stella and Frederick.
Thomas
returned to Jasper County, Illinois with his children. Thomas married again and
had additional children.
Stella
married John Ferguson of Willow Hill and was a loving step-mother to his two
children in addition to loving her own two children. Stella
Whitmarsh Ferguson died in 1972 and is buried in Mound Cemetery in Hunt City,
Jasper County, Illinois.[vi]
She has
always been fondly remembered as “Grandma Dolly” by her numerous grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
[i] Ancestry.com.
Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1790-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
[ii] Census
Place: Granville, Jasper, Illinois; Roll: M593_232; Page: 283B; Family History
Library Film: 545731
[iii] Ancestry.com.
Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
[iv] 1880;
Census Place: Glenwood, Phillips, Kansas; Roll: 393; Page: 83C; Enumeration
District: 227
[v] Kansas
State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1885 Kansas Territory Census; Roll:
KS1885_106; Line: 1
[vi] Ancestry.com.
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
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