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Descendants of John Chappell

Generation No. 2

2. EDWARD² CHAPPELL (JOHN¹) was born November 11, 1813 in Brea, Camborne Parish, Cornwall, England, and died November 09, 1887 in Iveyville, Iowa. He married ELIZA ANNE PEARCE December 25, 1833 in Illogan Parish Church, daughter of JOHN PEARCE and MARY ----.

Notes for EDWARD CHAPPELL:
From the Platteville Wisconsin History of 1880:

Edward Chappell-retired farmer, Platteville, was born in November, 1813 in Camborne, Cornwall, England, where his younger days were spent at mining. In 1839, He came with his family to America, and spent a number of years in the coal and iron mines of Pennsylvania. Later, he was one of the owners of a Greencastle, Pennsylvania, foundry, and still later, interested himself in farming. In 1856, he sold his farm, and came West, purchasing of J.C. Wright, the splendid 270-acre farm, which he still owns. It was a prairie farm, under improvement, though Mr. Chappell has since erected a new house upon it, and is located partly in Smelser and partly in Elk Grove. Since 1876, he has been a resident of Platteville.

His wife was formerly Eliza Pearce, of Illogen Parish, Cornwall. They have eleven children - Edward, born in England, Mary J. (Mrs. James Ivey), John M., William C., Eliza Ann (Mrs. John Rogers), Sarah (Mrs. Abel Gill), Gilbert, Alfred P., James R., Thomas L. and Anna M. Eight of the children were born in Pennsylvania and the two youngest on the Elk Grove homestead. The eldest daughter resides near Parkersburg, Iowa, and six of the others are on farms of their own in Taylor County, Iowa. Edward is farming in Elk Grove and Thomas is on the old farm. John M., is also a farmer in that town. The children and grandchildren number about sixty. Mr. Chappell is a Democrat and served five terms as Chairman of Elk Grove. He is a member, with his wife and most of his children, of the M.E. Church.

OBITUARY of EDWARD CHAPPELL

Edward Chappell, Sr., was born in Camborne, County of Cornwall, England, November 11, 1813, and died at Iveyville, Adams County, Iowa, November 9, 1887, aged 74 years. He married Eliza Pearce in 1833, and immigrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where, at a camp meeting of the M.E. Church was happily converted to God. He came to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled in Elk Grove, La Fayette County, and thence moved to Platteville, where he remained for some considerable time, and then removed to Iveyville, Adams County, Iowa, in the fall of 188x, where most of his children reside. He has left an aged and beloved wife and seven sons and four daughters and a large number of grandchildren to mourn his loss. His children, all but one, were in attendance at his funeral, which was the largest ever held at Iveyville. His eldest son, Edward, of Elk Grove, was sick and unable to attend. The writer had been acquainted with the deceased for the last 31 years, and knew him to have been a most exemplary and devoted Christian, a kind husband, and a loving father. In the M.E. Church at Elk Grove he was the beloved and deservedly esteemed class leader and Sabbath School Superintendent for many years, and was class leader at Iveyville at the time of his death. His sickness was of short duration (heart disease) and just before his death he sang with a clear voice No. 256 in Gospel Hymns, commencing--

My Heavenly home is bright and fair;
Nor pain nor death can enter there
Its glittering towers and sun outshine
That Heavenly mansion shall be mine.

He passed away without a struggle. Now, shall I say that a Father Israel has fallen? Nay, verily, but a Father in Israel has ascended to enjoy that blessed home of which he so sweetly sang and which he has been anticipating, lo these many years. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, "Write: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. How blessed the righteous when he dies! When sinks a weary soul to rest. Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his."

R. BOSISTO

Children of EDWARD CHAPPELL and ELIZA PEARCE are:

	i.	EDWARD³ CHAPPELL, b. Abt. 1834, Pool, Illogan parish, Cornwall, England; d. Abt. 1835, Cornwall, England.
	ii.	JOHN CHAPPELL, b. Abt. 1836, Cornwall, England; d. Bef. 1839, Tenckengmill, Cornwall, England.
3.	iii.	EDWARD CHAPPELL, b. October 01, 1838, Pool, Cornwall County, England; d. January 29, 1923, Buried Belmont Cemetery, WI.
4.	iv.	MARY JANE CHAPPELL, b. December 10, 1840, Margaretta Furnace, York Co., PA; d. December 08, 1903, Millston, WI.
5.	v.	JOHN NICHOLAS CHAPPELL, b. March 18, 1843, Margaretta Furnace, York Co., PA; d. August 08, 1919, Platteville, WI.
6.	vi.	WILLIAM CHARLES CHAPPELL, b. March 18, 1843, Margaretta Furnace, York Co., PA; d. February 06, 1933, Sedalia, MO.
7.	vii.	ELIZA ANN CHAPPELL, b. March 27, 1847, Pottsville, PA; d. September 16, 1902, Iveyville, Iowa; buried Prarie Rose Cemetery.
8.	viii.	SARAH ELIZABETH CHAPPELL, b. January 07, 1849, Green Castle, Franklin County, PA; d. February 03, 1907, Iveyville, Iowa.
	ix.	FRANCIS VIRGINIA CHAPPELL, b. Abt. 1850; d. Abt. 1850, Near McConnelsburg, PA.
9.	x.	GILBERT (GILLIE) CHAPPELL, b. March 17, 1851, McConnelsburg, PA; d. March 25, 1916, Brookings, SD.
10.	xi.	ALFRED PEARCE CHAPPELL, b. March 12, 1853, McConnelsburg, PA; d. August 15, 1940, Sedalia, MO; buried Prairie Rose Cemetery, Adams County, IA.
11.	xii.	JAMES RICHARD CHAPPELL, b. April 27, 1856, McConnelsburg, PA; d. July 11, 1939, Inglewood, CA.
12.	xiii.	THOMAS LLOYD CHAPPELL, b. April 18, 1858, Elk Grove, Lafayette County, WI; d. November 1952, Long Beach, CA.
13.	xiv.	ANNA MARIE CHAPPELL, b. December 10, 1860, Elk Grove, Lafayette County, WI; d. July 31, 1941, Witchita, KS; buried Hutchinson, KS.

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