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Hattie E. McColley reportedly married Edward Dwight Chapin on 29 July 1879.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j3i/
Edward Dwight Chapin was born in Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on 12 November 1837. He married his first wife, Olive Emma Stanford, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1862. They resided in Boston and later in Brookline, Massachusetts. The births of their four children [Gertrude, Grace, Charles and Dwight] and the death of one are recorded in Boston/Brookline from 1864 to 1875.
It is true that Edward D. Chapin appears on the 1880 census in Brookline with a second wife, Hattie E., and a stepson named Clayton McCauly [both born in Delaware]. This second marriage logically would have occurred in Boston or Brookline, Massachusetts where Edward ran a butter and eggs business. However, I cannot find any record of the marriage in Massachusetts nor in Delaware or New Hampshire. I can't find any record of the death of Edward's first wife or a divorce, either.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYB-GYN?cc=1417683
Edward did later go to Texas with his sons Charles and Dwight. Whether Hattie and Clayton went with them is unknown.
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One of the pay sites has the following (after a quick search, I did not see it on FamilySearch).
Delaware marriage record (marriage bond?)
Vol. 50 p 243
Edward D. Chapin and Hattie E. McCalley
"Marriage date": 29 July 1879
I don't know if we can copy text, word-for-word, so I won't. :-\
The paper is two paragraphs long and Edward D. Chapin and George ? (New,?), Marshall both bound to the the State of Delaware $200.
The next paragraph stated "The condition of the above written obligation is such that if" and includes Edward D. Chapin and Hattie E. McCalley. I will try to find a similar image online since I'm not certain that I can type the actual text.
PS I've not seen an image like this before, but perhaps you may have in the past?
Update: Her spelling might actually be McColley on the image.
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I'm mystified. I wonder why he went to Delaware and found a wife there. Maybe he had a business connection down there. He was one of three partners in a well established butter, cheese and eggs company [Gass, Doe & Chapin] which was located in the Faneuil Hall Market. [Faneuil Hall is the old, historic Boston market building that dates back to pre-revolutionary times]. I assume he was a modestly prosperous businessman. Why he then ran off to Texas is also mystery.
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Two of my English ancestors were from different parts of England (they lived about 80 miles apart), yet they somehow met and married. Someone suggested that the families may have met at a market place in London since both families sold goods. I do know that one of the families went to a London market at least once. Could Edward and Hattie have met quite by accident?
Or, if Edward was left with young children after his wife's passing, perhaps a friend told him about Hattie, which could have been been a godsend to a newly-widowed father, and perhaps to her as well?
Could Edward have known Hattie's first husband?
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According to the 1880 census, Clayton's father was born in New Hampshire. Perhaps his father knew Edward and/or Olive?
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Assuming that Edward's wife died, yes, he was left with young children - Grace [12], Charles [11] and Dwight [5] in 1880. Another odd thing is that Grace cannot be found in 1880; she was not living with her father in Brookline. But she turned up in Cincinnati in 1887 where she married a strange English immigrant.
As for Hattie McColley, I don't know if there was a first husband. On her death certificate, her parents are named as Hiram? W. McColley and Susan Pleasanton?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DT67-8M8?mode=g&i=205&cc=1520546
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After a quick search I didn't see the following on FamilySearch;
Delaware marriage record
Robert Frame, occupation Medical Doctr?, residing Milford, Delaware. He was American, age 23?, born Kent County.
Wife: Hettey Elizabeth McColley, residing Milford, Delaware. Born Kent Co., age 18.
Married: April 3? 1862
Parents of parties: Robert Frame, HW McColley and Susan P. Parents were American, white.
By whom married: T? P? McColley, Methodist
Cert date: April 10, 1862. Reg Date: September 1? 1862
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This appears to be Robert Frame in 1860:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j3k/
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Looks like the marriage didn't last but he is a good candidate to be Clayton McColley's father inasmuch as his mother's name was Clayton.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j3l/
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...The paper is two paragraphs long and Edward D. Chapin and George ? (New,?), Marshall both bound to the the State of Delaware $200...
Looking at the 1870 census that has Robert, Hettie and Clayton, on the same page is
Wm Marshal, Physician (and family)
Could he be the same person as noted above? :-\ Maybe "New" could be Wm?
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Looks like the marriage didn't last but he is a good candidate to be Clayton McColley's father inasamuch as his mother's name was Clayton.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j3l/
Good find!
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I don't know if this is "your" Hiram or not, but there is a short paragraph about Hiram and his father, James.
http://www.coastalpoint.net/content/gone_winds_tara_replicated_milford
Apologies if it isn't the same family.
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Interesting article. I don't know if it's the same Hiram McColley but it looks like it must be the same family. I'm related to the Chapins, not the McColleys. Or, more correctly, I am related to Olive Stanford.
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One online site states that T. P. McColley was "at first" a hatter and then worked in the general mercantile business (dry goods, groceries, liquors and drugs). The site also mentions Dr. George W. Marshall.
"Historical etchings of Milford and vicinity: some facts and..."
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I'll pop back over to researching Olive's side. ;) It was quite interesting finding the facts and material about the McColley's (I was hoping to find something about Olive while digging). While I'm not American, I am interested in the American Civil War era.
I haven't yet found Olive's passing but I haven't exhausted all possibilities.
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Olive was born in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, 9 November 1842. Her parents were Mary E. Mitchell and Isaiah Stanford. Mary E. Mitchell was a sister of my gg-grandmother, Nancy Ann Mitchell. Olive was the youngest of five children and her father died soon after her birth [20 May 1843 in Gardiner]. Mary Mitchell then married Daniel Johnson and they eventually moved from Maine to Boston and then later to Appleton, Wisconsin [where Daniel died]. I assume they went out to Wisconsin because several other Mitchells were already out there, including my gg-grandmother.
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Thank you for adding additional facts. :)
Could this be Olive?
1878 Boston, MA Directory
Mrs. Olive E. Chapin boards 30 Worcester
(and, Edward D. Chapin (Gass, Doe & Chapin), 61 F. H. market, house at Brookline)
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Others living at 30 Worcester in 1878 (in case there might be a link):
Mrs. H M Richardson (boards)
Gardner F Sanderson (house)
Henry W Tenney (boards 30 Worcester square) Salesman
Nathaniel F Tenney (h 30 Worcester Sq) Tenney, Aldrich, & Co. (boots and shoes)
Charles G Bullard (boards 30 Worcester sq - Cambridgeport) merchadise broker
So, if this Olive is "yours", perhaps she left Edward's residence around the end of 1877/beginning of 1878?
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Looks like her, doesn't it? Maybe they split up. [I don't recognize any of those other names].
There is one clue that Olive might have remarried. Her son, Dwight Doe Chapin, went out to Texas with his father and brother sometime in the 1880s. Dwight D. eventually died in Maverick County, Texas in 1945. On his death certificate, his mother's maiden name is listed as 'Olive Emma Howard' although 'Howard' was not her maiden name. I've tried searching for her under that surname but no luck so far.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j3m/
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After a brief search, I've not found Olive Howard. I will look again tomorrow night (I better stop for the night). ;)
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Thanks for all your help! I've advanced a lot with this people - at least Hattie McColley is straightened out.
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You're welcome. I wish we could find Olive, but I've not yet given up.
You've most likely tried this, but is there any chance that her marriage or death might be mentioned in Wisconsin newspapers? Also, is there any chance that there could be an error with Olive's surname (on Dwight's death certificate)? Could the reporting person have not known her name, or is there a chance that she was adopted?
Good night for now.
PS I might keep an eye out for Hattie and family around the mid-1870s, as I feel like we've missed something. :-\
Assuming that Edward's wife died, yes, he was left with young children - Grace [12], Charles [11] and Dwight [5] in 1880. Another odd thing is that Grace cannot be found in 1880; she was not living with her father in Brookline. But she turned up in Cincinnati in 1887 where she married a strange English immigrant.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DT67-8M8?mode=g&i=205&cc=1520546
If I have time tonight, I'll look for Grace as well. (I don't like to give up.) ;)
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The Howard surname could very well be an error. The information was provided by Dwight D. Chapin's wife, Lula Kite. She probably never met any of his family and could easily have been mistaken about his mother's name. She got the birthplaces wrong - said both parents were born in Massachusetts, which was untrue.
As far as I know, Olive never went out to Wisconsin. Her mother, Mary Mitchell, and stepfather, Daniel Johnson, went out to Appleton in the 1870s; they were there for the 1875 Wisconsin state census. Daniel Johnson died in Appleton in 1878 and Mary Mitchell stayed on until at least 1880 with her son Daniel Johnson, Jr. and her oldest, widowed daughter, Isabella [Stanford] Allen. They all moved back to Boston at some point and Mary Mitchell died there in 1895.
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I believe I've found Olive in the census records. It appears she was placed in a state mental hospital, which might explain Edward going elsewhere to marry and then head to Texas.
I think she died between 1920-1930, but can't find record of death yet.
Here's what I'm seeing. She seems to always be listed as "Olive E."
1865 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQHZ-B43
State Hospital censuses.
In 1900 both her names are mistranscribed. Her birth is listed as Nov. 1843 Maine. Mother or 4 with 3 still alive. That seems to match, daughter Gertrude was b. 1864 & died 1865.
1900 census (line 2): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9BC-V75
1910 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M22T-849
1920 census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSS-QKS
Unfortunately deaths for those at mental hospitals aren't always reported and rarely are their deaths in the newspaper obit/death notices.
Still need to find her prior to that 1900 census.
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Bingo! Poor Olive, 25 or 30 years or more in the asylum. She must have been really seriously ill because she did have relatives she could have lived with.
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Massachusetts death index has Olive E. Chapin nee Stafford who died in Worcester in 1925. Slightly off on the maiden name, but considering that the information probably came from a hospital, I'm guessing RJ137 found the right one.
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The Boston Daily Globe from 10 and 11 Sep. 1883 says under Supreme Court Decisions: "In the case of Olive Emma Chapin vs. Edward D. Chapin on the agreed facts the full bench affirms the judgment, which was for the plaintiff."
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I wonder what she sued him for? By then he was already remarried. But the legal situation might have prompted him to relocate to Texas. Current Massachusetts law apparently permits divorce on the grounds of incurable insanity but requires that the "spouse must be judged permanently and incurably insane and be confined in an institution or a hospital for a minimum of 24 months before filing. To prove insanity, two or more psychiatrists are needed to testify that your spouse is incurable and that there is no hope of recovery. The court will appoint an attorney to act in the defense of your spouse whom you purport to be insane." I don't know what the law was at that time.
http://www.madivorceonline.com/mapages/Divorce/divorcerequirements.asp#18
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Many of the patients at the Worcester Asylum were buried at the Hillside Cemetery which was maintained by the state hospital. The cemetery is being restored and the graves are being marked with names and dates. The work is complete in the western section where the graves seem to go up to 1924. The newer eastern section is not completed. Olive is not among the patients listed so far.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtcstjoh/cemetery/hillsidelist.htm#east
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A question for Lisa of Cailfornia ... Did the marriage record/bond you found for Edward Chapin and Hattiesburg McColley give Edward's alleged marital status? I have a similar mystery in England 30 years earlier, with a second marriage but no obvious death of first wife. At the second marriage, the husband said he was a bachelor - which he wasn't - and I'm starting to think the first wife could have been committed to an asylum. So I'd be interested in whether Edward Chapin thought he was a bachelor or a widower when he married Hattie McColley (but I can't access any of the paying sites at the moment). Thanks :)
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Dratted auto spellcheck!! Hattie not Hattiesburg of course :o