Louisa Wells CHAPIN

1827 - 1895  (67 years)

• Birth	6 Dec 1827	Camillus, Onondaga, NY   [1]
  Obituary	20 Sep 1895	Vevay Township, Ingham, MI   [1]
  	Sketch of the Life of Louisa Wells Chapin, by Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Omaha, Nebraska. Read before the Eden Ladies Aid Society by Carrie L. Chapin and requested to be published. Louise Wells Chapin was a descendant in the seventh generation from Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass. She was the daughter of Levi Chapin and Achsah Smith, who were married in Chicopee, Massachusetts, January 10, 1810. She was born at Camillus, New York, December 6, 1827, to which place her parents had removed some years earlier. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Achsah S. Horton, in Vevay, September 20, 1895. When 17 years of age she came, with her fathers' family in 1844, to Eden, Michigan, where she spent the remainder of her life, a period of more than 50 years............Miss Chapin was for 40 years a stanch member of the M. E. church..............She was one of the noble few of whom it can truthfully be said: "She hath done what she could."
  Death	30 Sep 1895	Vevay Township, Ingham, MI   [1]

  
  

  Father	Levi CHAPIN,   b. 23 Apr 1787, Chicopee, Hampden, MA d. 29 Jan 1864, Detroit, Wayne, MI (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Achsah SMITH,   b. 27 Feb 1787, Springfield, Hampden, MA d. 29 Jan 1854 (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Dec 1827 - Camillus, Onondaga, NY Obituary - 20 Sep 1895 - Vevay Township, Ingham, MI Death - 30 Sep 1895 - Vevay Township, Ingham, MI  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S88] Chapin, Rev. Augusta J., Life of Louisa Wells Chapin, 88.