OK, I know you Chapman researchers are like me and will collect anything on your surnames to try to put the families together. Here is a query regarding the Greenville area, an area that supplied quite a few folks who moved on down the Saluda River to Edgefield old Edgefield Dist, including Edgefield, Greenwood, Saluda etc. I don't know anything about them, but the name Florence Powell caught my eye as well as the Chapman. I have a Florence Powell but she is born Abt. 1855 [1870 Edgefield Co, SC hh#90, with parents]. One thing about where the children are when Quincy CHAPMAN married 2nd wife. Often when the children were small, they went to live with their maternal grandparents. Some women did not want to raise another woman's children I guess, or it is possible that they were on their honeymoon and did not need small children around. Look for the children's name in the 1880 census with the mother's family.. her parents or possibly even a sister. Billie Jones Remember, I know nothing about these folks, so post all comments back to the lists. Billie Jones Camden, SC [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Chapman Family Scandel? Quincy CHAPMAN m Florence POWELL 20 March 1876 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3773 > > Message Board Post: > > My husband's great-grandfather was Quincy Lafayette CHAPMAN b. Greenville Co., SC 1858 to Elias Richard CHAPMAN and Violet Rosanna NASH. He married Florence M. POWELL b abt 1862 on 20 May 1876 in Clayton County, Georgia. She was born in GA. On the 1880 Greenville County, Census, they were listed with two children: ?Liola, Viola, Leola age 3 born SC and a month old son whose name is unreadable also born SC. By March of 1881, Quincy has married Elizabeth Clarkley KAY. What happened to Florence and Children? Did they divorce? Some horrible accident killing wife and children-fire, buggy accident, etc. ? Did he abandon this family? Did she leave him (he was known to drink) and take the children? Any leads would be appreciated. I think I've found her parents and siblings in Clayton Co., GA: a C. S. Powell and wife Elizabeth. > > ______________________________