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Lucinda Chapin |
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Born: July 1, 1796 Loc: Monson, Hampden Co. MA Died: Apr 20, 1846 Loc: Loami, Sangamon Co. IL |
Father: Justin Chapin Mother: Mehitable Webber |
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Married: Feb. 1818 in NY Spouse: Willis Cooley |
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Children:
Robert W./Charlotte/Hubbard/James Madison/Angeline |
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Before 1825 the family emigrated to Lick Creek, IL In the west
the family spelled their name Coley. Lucinda died without ever seeing any of her relatives again. Source: Alta Brown Leonard |
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COLEY, WILLIS, was born Feb. 14, 1792, near Ballston Springs, N. Y., and
when he was a child his parents moved to Cazenovia, Madison County.
Willis was there married in Feb., 1818, to Lucinda Chapin. His
father owned some land in the military tract between the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers. Soon after Willis was married his father sent him
out to see it. He came on a raft down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to
Shawneetown, thence to St. Louis by keel boat. He went on foot to the
military tract, and returned to Edwardsville. July 4, 1819, he started
from that place, on foot and alone, for his home in New York. At Terre
Haute, Ind., he secured cooked food, and traveled two hundred miles to
the Maumee River, without seeing any other human beings but Indians. He
arrived at Cazenovia August 7, 1819. March 4, 1820, he started with his
family, consisting of himself, wife and two children, accompanied by
five or six other families. They moved by water to Shawneetown Source: History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois |
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