When Margaret Lavisa Mauck was born on 9 August 1862, in Corydon, Harrison, Indiana, United States, her father, George Mauck, was 26 and her mother, Mary Wilma Gilmore, was 24. She married Edward Franklin Chappell on 13 April 1882, in Corydon, Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Nehawka Election Precinct, Cass, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 8 September 1942, in Nehawka, Cass, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Nehawka, Cass, Nebraska, United States.