Blue Monday: A Devastating Loss for Lewis and Carrie Chappel in 1910
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blue Monday, Chapple, Surname
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 October 1910, my great uncle, Lewis Blanton Chappel, was born! [1]
Tags: birth record, death record, infant death, Lewis Blanton Chappel
Blue Monday: “Pistol Fell Out of Bra, Woman Says of Slaying”
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blue Monday
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 April 1975. I was 15 years old walking home from school when my mom pulled alongside me and told me to get [...]
Tags: Carolyn Bingham, Carolyn Bryant, death and dying, felony indictment, Harris County District Clerk, murder
Blue Monday: “Woman Killed”
Posted by Liv | Filed under Blue Monday
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, Estella (Chapple) Thomas. I’ve known about her death since my pre-teen years; she died before I [...]
Tags: aunt, Blue Monday, chapple, Estella Chapple Thomas, news clipping, woman killed
