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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Jennie E. Chapman ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Jennie E. Chapman
LAST NAME: Chapman FIRST NAME: Jennie MIDDLE NAME: E. NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Thatcher AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 26 May 1852 DIED: 21 Jan 1932 BURIED: 23 Jan 1932
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Iowa
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

MARRIAGE M.N. Chapman and Jennie Thatcher m 24 Dec 1868 at house of E.A. Thatcher; P.S. Knight, MG. Wit: George A. Edes and E.A. Thatcher. Consent of H.M. Thatcher.

1870 OR CENSUS Jennie Chapman (18y, b Iowa) enumerated with M. [Memory] (24y, b Missouri, occupation clerk) and L.P. [Lora] (b Feb 1870, Oregon)

1880 OR CENSUS - J. T., Chapman, age 26, b. Iowa, is enumerated with husband M. Chapman, age 36, accountant, b. Illinois, along with Lora, age 10, May, age 8, Nina, age 6, and Roda, age 2, all born in Oregon.
1900 OR CENSUS Jennie Chapman (b May 1852, Iowa, widowed, mother of 4 children, 3 living at time of census) enumerated with daughter Oda L. (b June 1878, Oregon, occupation bookkeeper) and mother Sarah L. Thatcher (b Feb 1827, Ohio, widowed, mother of 6 children, 4 living at time of census)

1910 CENSUS of Salem Pct. #1: Jennie Chapman, age 55, b. Iowa, head; Rhoda L. Chapman, age 32, b. Oregon and Sarah L. Thatcher, age 83, b. New Hampshire.
1920 CA CENSUS - Jennie E. Chapman, age 67, widowed,b. Iowa, is enumerated in the home of her son-in-law, George Mack, age 56, b. Wisconsin, and [daughter] Loru C. Mack, age 49, b. Oregon, along with Oda L. Chapman, age 41, identified as sister-in-law [of George] b. Oregon.
1930 OR CENSUS Jennie T. Chapman (77y, b Iowa, widowed) enumerated with daughter Rhoda L. (52y, b Oregon)
PHOTOGRAPH NOTE: The choir photograph is courtesy of Salem (Oregon) Public Library Historic Photograph Collections. The caption is: "A photo of the first choir of the First Congregational Church of Salem in 1885 - all women. They are identified as follows (reading left to right): Dickinson, Edna; Stratton, Helen Williams; Farrar, Abbie Hatch, foreground; Babcock, Ida Pratt; Gilbert, Mary Cooper; and Chapman, Jennie Thatcher."

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1932) #53 - Jennie Thatcher Chapman was born in Iowa on May 26, 1852 to H. M. Thatcher and Sarah Little Thatcher. Age at death 79 years, 7 months, 25 days. Wife of Memory Noble Chapman, funeral arrangements by W. T. Rigdon & Son, Informant: Miss Rhoda Chapman.

OBITUARY: 

CHAPMAN SERVICES WILL BE SATURDAY
Mrs. Jennie Thatcher Chapman, who was born May 26, 1852 in Iowa, while her parents were crossing the plains, died at her home here Thursday.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Thatcher, located in California in the early days, but came to Oregon and Salem more than 75 years ago. She was married to Memory Chapman at the age of sixteen years. He died many years ago.
Mrs. Chapman was a member of the Congregational church for more that 60 years, and was a charter member of the Salem chapter, Eastern Star. Surviving her are three children, Miss Oda Chapman and Mrs. Lot L. Pearce of Salem, and Mrs. Lora Mack of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be held at Rigdon’s mortuary here at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Interment will follow in the Odd Fellows cemetery.
Chapman scrapbook, p. 364

INSCRIPTION: 

Jennie T. Chapman
May 26 Jan. 21, 1932

SOURCES: 

LR
OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1932) #53
S&H pg 26

Marion Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1871, Vol 1, page 72

1870 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Salem, FA#79)

1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 78, pg 8D)
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 128, sheet 6A)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 221, sheet 5A)
1920 CA CENSUS (Los Angeles Co., Los Angeles, ED 179, sheet 9A)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 52, sheet 4A)

Chapman scrapbook, p. 305

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