Posted on: Laurens Co. SC Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Laurens/10272 Surname: CHAPMAN, JACKSON, SUMMERS, WORHTINGTON, LYNCH, PRATHER, MARTIN ------------------------- Giles Chapman, Sr. was b in 1702 in England. He married Sarah Jackson. Their son Rev. Giles Chapman, Jr. was b in 1748 in VA. He married Mary Summers (1758-1813). In Newberry Co. SC, there is a Chapman-Summers Cemetery associated with a former church of the Dunker (or Dunkard) denomination (when one of their faith was baptized, he was immersed three times). Jeff Bedenbaugh ([email protected]) wrote that the old Dunker Cemetery (now known as the Chapman-Summers Cemetery) is quite accessible. "I visited there last May and it is well-kept." Jeff says it is located near the junction of Fire Tower Road [used to be part of the old Bush River Road (which led from Laurens Co. to Newberry Co. and went right by Bush River Baptist Church, which is still in existence)] and St. Luke's [Lutheran] Church Road. "The Dunker settlement was on Palmetto Branch (now known as Kinard's Branch). While the meetinghouse has long since disappeared, the cemetery is located on Fire Tower Road....Joseph Summers of VA was the leader of the group, and his son-in-law Giles Chapman began preaching in 1782. This congregation later becamne Universalists. Some family names listed are Chapman, Summers, Lynch, Prather, and Martin." In his HISTORY OF NEWBERRY COUNTY, Pope (p. 82) states that Joseph Summers was from Maryland, but that his son-in-law Rev. Giles Chapman (a saddler by trade) was b in VA. "In the early years, they practiced their rather unusual form of religion. Believing in immersion like the Baptists, they knelt in the wawter and were plunged three times under it while in that position. They neither shaved their faces nor their heads." A footnote refers to Deed Book U, p. 148, Newberry Co. clerk's office. "On Nov. 24, 1823, Daniel Morgan conveyed two and a helf acres to Joseph Summers, Samuel Sumemrs, Samuel Chapman, and Marmaduke Coate, Esq. Trustees of the Universalist Meeting House in Newberry District." I do not know if these Newberry CHAPMANs are related to your Laurens CHAPMANs, but I do know that the proximity was the same, and that both Newberry and Laurens were in the Old Ninety-Six District, right? Rev. Giles Chapman, Jr. and Mary Summers had a son Samuel Chapman (1797-1876) who married Elizabeth "Betsy" Worthington (1801-1880). Elizabeth was a daughter of John Worthington (1754-1827) and Elizabeth Davis (1765-1833). Samuel and Elizabeth had a son Samuel Robertson Chapman (1837-1869) who is buried at the Chapman-Summers Cemetery in Newberry Co. SC. Mary in TX