Liston Allen Chapman Jr. was born on 23 August 1946, in McComb, Pike, Mississippi, United States. He married Carolyn Gale Burrell on 23 March 1964. He died on 20 November 1999, in his hometown, at the age of 53, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike, Mississippi, United States.
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1946–1999 Male
1948–2009 Female
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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