Spencer A Chapin

Source: Obituary Thursday, January 11, 1940 Regional News paper (Lake Geneva) SPENCER CHAPIN NATIVE PIONEER BURIED TUESDAY. Deceased Was Born At Spring Praire in 1852 DIED AT MATTOON Chapin Worked As A Painter For thirty years Following Railway Work.

Final tribute was paid a pioneer resident of this vicinity when Rev. John L. Walker conducted funeral services for Spencer A. Chapin at the Wightman funeral home Tuesday at 1:30pm Burial was in the Lyons cemetery. Mr. Chapin was born at Spring Praierie on March 22, 1852, the son of Sumner and Harriet Spencer Chapin. He died Saturday, Jan 6, at Mattoon, Ill. in the Odd Fellows home where he had been living for the past two years. His childhood was spent at Lyons where at teh age of eighteen. he left to become an employee of the Western Union Railway, now the Milwaukee, & St. Paul. After a short resicence in Burlington he came to Lake Geneva where he met and married Miss Eva M. Colburn who preceeded him in death on May 31, 1932. Later Mr. Chapin moved to Chicago with his family where he followed teh painters trade for 30 years, retunring to Lake Geneva again in march, 1929, to make his home with his son, Neil, of Lake Geneva, and Ralph of Ottawa, and one grandson, Edward Chapin. Mr. Chapin has been a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge for the past 50 years and while in Chicago held several positions in the fraternity, being a past grand of Hyde Park Lodge and life member of teh Cook County brnch of Veteran Odd Fellows Association. His Funeral was conducted by the Odd Fellows. "

SUMNER CHAPIN, carpenter and joiner, Lyons. He was born in the town of Darien, Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1823, where he lived until May, 1849, when ho came to Walworth Co., and has been a resident of this town most of the time since, engaged in work at his trade, that of the carpenter and joiner. He was married in Genesee Co. to Miss Harriet Spencer. They have two sons — Spencer A. and Eddie A. Source "History of Walworth Country" Lyons 1881. Page 816