FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MRS. CHAPMAN IS HELD       (1928 - exact date unknown)

Remains of Beloved Lady Are Tenderly Buried in Green Hill Cemetery

OUTSTANDING ANCESTRY

The funeral of Mrs. Josephine Jeffries Chapman, wife of Col. W. H. Chapman, who died Saturday night, was held yesterday afternoon at 8 o’clock from St Andrew’s Episcopal church, Rev. C. E. Buxton officiating. He was assisted by Rev. John H. Chapman, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, Spartanburg, South Carolina, son, and son-in-law of the deceased. Interment followed in Green Hill cemetery.

The acting pallbearers were Harry Redman, C. P. Langley, J. W. White, J. R. Donnell, Jackson Morton, Kenneth Pinnix, and Clarence Blair. The honorary pallbearers were V. C. McAdoo, R. D. Douglas, S. B. Adams, E. L. Davant and R. R. Stabler.

Mrs. Chapman was a woman of unusual charm and endowed with exceptional talents. Hers was a personality strongly felt by everyone with whom she came in contact, one for whom the only standards were the highest and who lived to see them materialize in many of her own family. Two of her sons became ministers, one Rev. James Jeffries Chapman, who for 22 years has been a missionary of the Episcopal church in Japan, and Rev. John H. Chapman of Greenwich, Connecticut. Two daughters, Mrs. W. H. Brooking and Mrs. W. H. K. Pendleton, are both wives of Episcopal ministers, the former at Vanters, Virginia, the latter of Spartanburg, South Carolina. One son, Major William A. Chapman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is in the employ of the United States government, and Mrs. H. A. Newman and Miss Kathryn Chapman of this city, are the other members of this large and influential family whose entire lives are given to service to the church or state.

Col. and Mrs. Chapman were married 64 years ago on February 25 at Highlands, Fauquier county, Virginia, the year before the close of the civil war. Colonel Chapman was in the Confederate service attached to Mosby’s command. Mrs. Chapman, who was 81 years old, was of distinguished ancestry, a direct descendant of Ann Ball, who was a sister of George Washington’s mother, and of Richard Henry Lee, ancestor of Robert E. Lee. Next to her great and vital interest in her church was her interest and participation in the societies of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Daughters of the Confederacy, of all of which she was a member and in which she took an active part.

In her youth Mrs. Chapman, besides being an acknowledged beauty of the old south, was gifted with a charming soprano voice which was cultivated under the best instructors of that day and which was in constant demand, and of this talent she gave unstintedly for every worthy cause.

For the past 12 years Col. and Mrs. Chapman had made their home at 840 West Market street, this city. All of the children excepting Rev. James Chapman of Japan were present at the funeral of their devoted mother.