John Merle Chapman
(1875-1944)
Anna Alice Devine
(1872-1943)
Ethel Marie Chapman
(1894-1989)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Leroy Lightfoot

Ethel Marie Chapman 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 3 June 1894, Sarcoxie, MO 2 3 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Leroy Lightfoot on 23 December 1912 in , Jasper County, MO 1 2
  • Died: 23 June 1989, Joplin, MO at age 95 2 5
  • Buried: After 23 June 1989, Joplin, MO 5
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bullet  General Notes:

Following the death of her first husband, Leroy Lightfoot, in 1918, Ethel was remarried to Clarence Sowersby on 1 Feb 1921.
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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Shoal Creek, MO on January 1920. 3

Sheet 1A, Household 7, District 153, Roll 937
Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri
Daughter..Ethel Lightfoot..25..MO..Widowed
(Widowed and living with daughter at home of her parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Shoal Creek, MO on April 1930. 4

Sheet 18B, Household 443, Roll 949, District 0022
Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri
Head..Clarence Sowersby..34..MO
Wife..Ethel Sowersby..35..MO
Stepdaughter..Alice E. Lightfoot..11..MO

(Living with 2nd husband and daughter from 1st husband.)
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• She was buried after 23 June 1989 in the Osborne Memorial Cemetery in Joplin, MO.

Find A Grave Memorial #61655539
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Ethel married Leroy Lightfoot, son of Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover, on 23 December 1912 in , Jasper County, MO.1 2 (Leroy Lightfoot was born on 7 October 1892 in Carterville, MO,1 2 6 7 8 9 died on 23 October 1918 in Carterville, MO 2 8 9 and was buried on 25 October 1918 in Carterville, MO 8 9.). The cause of his death was Tuberculosis.


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Sources


1 Lightfoot Family Association Newsletter; Volume III, Number 1 (Dallas, Texas: Mrs. Stanley A. Williams, January 15, 1980), page 6. Detailed the children of Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover.

2 Joyce Texler, "TREE TREK ODYSSEY," database, RootsWeb (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=odyssey : accessed 4 Dec 2013).

3 1920 U.S. census, population schedule, Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 153, sheet 1A, family 7, John Merle Chapman and Anna Alice Devine; index and images (accessed 4 Dec 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll 937.

4 1930 U.S. census, population schedule, Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 0022, sheet 18B, family 443, Clarence Sowersby and Ethel Marie Chapman; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 4 Dec 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll 949.

5 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 4 Dec 2013), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61655539.

6 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 47, sheet 1A, dwelling 8, family 8, Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 27 Mar 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 866.

7 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 58, sheet 12A, family 247, Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 22 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624.

8 Missouri death certificate 34060 (1918), Leroy Lightfoot; digital image, "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1963," Missouri Digital Heritage (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ : accessed 21 May 2014).

9 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 4 Dec 2013), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42056078.


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