Margaret Elmina Robinson ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Cause of her death was Ruptured pulmonary artery; gastritis.⁶

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Lovelady Township, Burke County, NC on 14 June 1900. ²

1900 US Census
Sheet 13A, District 10, Dwelling 246, Household 251
Lovelady Township, Burke County, North Carolina, United States
Birth Date:Mar 1847
Home owned, no mortgage
Mrs. Margaret Chapman..Head..Mar 1847..53..NC..7/5..Widowed
Ethel May Chapman..Daughter..May 1878..22..NC

(Margaret was widowed and living with her daughter, Ethel.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Lovelady Township, Burke County, NC on April 1910. ³

1910 US Census
Sheet 9B, District 4, Household 172
Lovelady Township, Burke County, North Carolina, United States
Margarett E. Chapman..Head..63..NC..Widowed
E. May Chapman..Daughter..34..NC

(Margaret was widowed and living with her daughter, Ethel.)
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• She was buried on 9 December 1920 in the Abernathy Methodist Church Cemetery in Rutherford College, NC.

Find A Grave Memorial #87152911
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Margaret married William Lightfoot Chapman, son of Jones Chapman and Nancy Mary Ann Williams, about 1870. (William Lightfoot Chapman was born in 1836 in North Carolina ⁷ and died on 14 August 1884.)

  Marriage Notes:

Easily confused with this family was the un-related William Grant Chapman who married Elizabeth York and Margaret Hoyle. He was the son of John N. Chapman and Phoebe Denton. William Grant Chapman, who was born in 1840 in Burke County, North Carolina, had the following children with his first wife, Elizabeth York:
Emily Chapman
Riley Chapman
Ulysses S. Grant Chapman
Layfayette Chapman

William Grant Chapman had the following children with his second wife, Margaret Hoyle:
Sarah Ida Chapman
Harvey Todd Chapman
Eliza Alice Chapman
Rebecca M. Chapman
Laura Chapman
Leanna E. Chapman

None of these children are part of this particular Lightfoot Family tree. The "real" William "Lightfoot" Chapman is believed to have been married only to Margaret Elmina Robinson. There are no definitive census records for them as a family and their only known children were George Memory Chapman and Ethel May Chapman whose parents names are shown on each of their death certificate. On the 1900 census, Margaret did indicate that she had given birth to a total of 7 children and 5 were still alive at the time. It is unknown who the other 5 children could have been but there is a possibility that she might have been previously married and some of those 7 children could have come from that marriage.

One researcher shows that William Lightfoot Chapman was previously married in 1863 to Nancy Martin and they had a daughter Sarah C. Chapman born in 1844.
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