George Thomas Chapman

Brief Life History of George Thomas

When George Thomas Chapman was born on 2 February 1925, in Ensley, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, his father, Julius Herbert Chapman, was 33 and his mother, Lillie Leona Jones, was 27. He married Juanita Reed Bedingfield on 11 August 1948, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 9, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 29 October 1986, at the age of 61, and was buried in Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States.

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George Thomas Chapman
1925–1986
Juanita Reed Bedingfield
1927–2009
Marriage: 11 August 1948

Sources (6)

  • George Chapman in household of Herbert Chapman, "United States Census, 1940"
  • George Thomas Chapman, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • George Chapman, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

Name Meaning

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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