Blue Monday: “Woman Killed”
One of the first items my mother gave me when I sat down to interview her about the Chapple family and her siblings a few years ago was the 1954 newspaper clipping below about the murder of her sister,...
View ArticleBlue Monday: “Pistol Fell Out of Bra, Woman Says of Slaying”
The murder of my Aunt Estella (Chapple) Thomas wasn’t the only shooting tragedy my mother experienced in her family. My aunt’s oldest daughter, Carolyn (Bingham) Bryant, was murdered at age 29 on 10...
View ArticleBlue Monday: A Devastating Loss for Lewis and Carrie Chappel in 1910
I now know that my great-grandmother, Carrie, was 3 months pregnant when her family was counted on April 18th for the 1910 census. How I know this? According to the 1903-1997 Texas Birth Index, on 19...
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