This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chapman, Parker, Adair, Lide Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/544.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Great to hear from you!! The location of James' birth will help me find the family in Tennessee. I knew they had lived there, but had no way of knowing where. My ggrandfather was George S. Chapman whom I believe, but cannot prove was a nephew of James and Abner. His father was William Chapman (b. 1808 in S. Carolina) and I believe his grandparents were Enoch Chapman (b. 1793 S Carolina) and Nancy Parker. (b. ca. 1789 Virginia) They are buried in a small Chapman family cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. Their son, John sometimes lists his birthplace as S. Carolina and sometimes as Tennessee in Census records. George also moved to Texas (twice). He lived in Anderson County (Palestine) in 1860. I have lost him during the Civil War. In 1867 he married Eleanor Adair Lide in Perry County and they returned to Anderson County where their first child (James Lide) was born. Soon after that they moved to Colorado County where they spent the remainder of their lives and are buried. My grandfather was their youngest son, Perry Adair. Your story about James being orphaned makes me wonder whether Enoch had a brother who moved with them to Tennessee and some of these people are first cousins, not brothers. I will let you know if I get further information. Please keep in touch. Judy