Shep's Place Family Tree

He was followed to the area by several brothers and a sister, as well as some of Charlotte's family. At about the time, or soon after, his move to Hartford he was married a second time to Martha Dobson. He bought from the Hartford Company the house in which I now live ‎[Mildred Chapman Gibbs]‎ and settled his family there. He had a second family of six children with Martha.

In a newspaper article ‎(Nov. 15, 1898)‎ Erasmus Chapman, nearly 93 years old voted at the election. He says he has not missed voting at but one election since voting for Andrew Jackson.

Erasmus outlived both of his wives and several of his children. He died Nov. 20, 1900 at the age of 94. He was for a number of years in charge of the Hartford City Company's packing department. He was familiarly known as "Uncle Raz" in his later years. He was characterized by Rev. George Wilding as a sturdy Virginian who reveled in Spurgeon's sermons....and lived for his family, the Baptist Church, and the Democratic Party.