Daughter of William and Sarah Vandercook Twogood.
Saturday, Jan 17, 1920 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Twogood Chapin, widow of Colonel Alfred Chapin of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry and pioneer resident of this section, died yesterday in Rockford. She had been ill the last six weeks, of infirmities incident to advanced age.
Mrs. Chapin came here with her father Sidney Twogood, a veteran of the war of 1812, who purchased a tract of land where the old Kishwaukee trail crossed at the ford near the present village of Cherry Valley. Indians were numerous when her family first located here.
Her marriage to Alfred Chapin was an event of July 30, 1859 at Chicago. They settled in MIlwaukee, where Mr. Chapin became established in business and was first Lieutenant of the Milwaukee Light Guards. Later he organized and became Colonel of the Tenth Wisconsin regiment and Mrs. Chapin followed the regiment when it went south and ministered to the suffering who fell on the field of battle
As the result of a wound incurred in battle, Colonel Chapin broke down and died in Rockford Dec. 20, 1866. The Chapin home at 635 Longwood street was for many years a center of social and civic activities, Mrs. Chapin’s charms of mind and manner attracting to her a wide circle of admiring friends. She was able to and speak brilliantly on all leading topics of the day and her reminiscences of early days in this vicinity were of large interest to the present generation.
Mrs. Chapin was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Daughters of 1812, of the Rockford Woman’s club and of other social and welfare organizations.
The only immediate relative surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Coonradt of 629 Third street.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1912 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Chapin leaves today for Delavan, Wis. to be present at the annual reunion of her husband’s old regiment, the Tenth Wisconsin infantry, which is held at that place.
Year by year the band is growing smaller. There are now less than one hundred left of that splendid band of men who followed Colonel Chapin into the fight at Perryville in the autumn of 1862, the battle where both the Tenth Wisconsin and our own Seventy-forth received their baptism of fire.
Our own regiment was only on the edge of the battle--their turn came later, at Stone River--but the Tenth Wisconsin was literally cut to pieces. Mrs. Chapin was visiting her husband at the front at the time this occurred, and won the love of the soldiers by her tender care of the wounded after the battle. And when, during Colonel Chapin’s long illness, her own time of suffering came, the devotion of the men of the old regiment served to knit still closer the ties that united them.
Year after year she has attended the reunions, a loved and honored guest, and bot she and the members of the old regiment look forward during the months which elapse between the meetings to the coming of the fall and the gathering of the survivors, and the renewing of recollections of times and faces that are no more.
Contributor: JNM (47123207)
Saturday, Jan 17, 1920 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Twogood Chapin, widow of Colonel Alfred Chapin of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry and pioneer resident of this section, died yesterday in Rockford. She had been ill the last six weeks, of infirmities incident to advanced age.
Mrs. Chapin came here with her father Sidney Twogood, a veteran of the war of 1812, who purchased a tract of land where the old Kishwaukee trail crossed at the ford near the present village of Cherry Valley. Indians were numerous when her family first located here.
Her marriage to Alfred Chapin was an event of July 30, 1859 at Chicago. They settled in MIlwaukee, where Mr. Chapin became established in business and was first Lieutenant of the Milwaukee Light Guards. Later he organized and became Colonel of the Tenth Wisconsin regiment and Mrs. Chapin followed the regiment when it went south and ministered to the suffering who fell on the field of battle
As the result of a wound incurred in battle, Colonel Chapin broke down and died in Rockford Dec. 20, 1866. The Chapin home at 635 Longwood street was for many years a center of social and civic activities, Mrs. Chapin’s charms of mind and manner attracting to her a wide circle of admiring friends. She was able to and speak brilliantly on all leading topics of the day and her reminiscences of early days in this vicinity were of large interest to the present generation.
Mrs. Chapin was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Daughters of 1812, of the Rockford Woman’s club and of other social and welfare organizations.
The only immediate relative surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Coonradt of 629 Third street.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1912 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Chapin leaves today for Delavan, Wis. to be present at the annual reunion of her husband’s old regiment, the Tenth Wisconsin infantry, which is held at that place.
Year by year the band is growing smaller. There are now less than one hundred left of that splendid band of men who followed Colonel Chapin into the fight at Perryville in the autumn of 1862, the battle where both the Tenth Wisconsin and our own Seventy-forth received their baptism of fire.
Our own regiment was only on the edge of the battle--their turn came later, at Stone River--but the Tenth Wisconsin was literally cut to pieces. Mrs. Chapin was visiting her husband at the front at the time this occurred, and won the love of the soldiers by her tender care of the wounded after the battle. And when, during Colonel Chapin’s long illness, her own time of suffering came, the devotion of the men of the old regiment served to knit still closer the ties that united them.
Year after year she has attended the reunions, a loved and honored guest, and bot she and the members of the old regiment look forward during the months which elapse between the meetings to the coming of the fall and the gathering of the survivors, and the renewing of recollections of times and faces that are no more.
Contributor: JNM (47123207)
Daughter of William and Sarah Vandercook Twogood.
Saturday, Jan 17, 1920 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Twogood Chapin, widow of Colonel Alfred Chapin of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry and pioneer resident of this section, died yesterday in Rockford. She had been ill the last six weeks, of infirmities incident to advanced age.
Mrs. Chapin came here with her father Sidney Twogood, a veteran of the war of 1812, who purchased a tract of land where the old Kishwaukee trail crossed at the ford near the present village of Cherry Valley. Indians were numerous when her family first located here.
Her marriage to Alfred Chapin was an event of July 30, 1859 at Chicago. They settled in MIlwaukee, where Mr. Chapin became established in business and was first Lieutenant of the Milwaukee Light Guards. Later he organized and became Colonel of the Tenth Wisconsin regiment and Mrs. Chapin followed the regiment when it went south and ministered to the suffering who fell on the field of battle
As the result of a wound incurred in battle, Colonel Chapin broke down and died in Rockford Dec. 20, 1866. The Chapin home at 635 Longwood street was for many years a center of social and civic activities, Mrs. Chapin’s charms of mind and manner attracting to her a wide circle of admiring friends. She was able to and speak brilliantly on all leading topics of the day and her reminiscences of early days in this vicinity were of large interest to the present generation.
Mrs. Chapin was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Daughters of 1812, of the Rockford Woman’s club and of other social and welfare organizations.
The only immediate relative surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Coonradt of 629 Third street.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1912 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Chapin leaves today for Delavan, Wis. to be present at the annual reunion of her husband’s old regiment, the Tenth Wisconsin infantry, which is held at that place.
Year by year the band is growing smaller. There are now less than one hundred left of that splendid band of men who followed Colonel Chapin into the fight at Perryville in the autumn of 1862, the battle where both the Tenth Wisconsin and our own Seventy-forth received their baptism of fire.
Our own regiment was only on the edge of the battle--their turn came later, at Stone River--but the Tenth Wisconsin was literally cut to pieces. Mrs. Chapin was visiting her husband at the front at the time this occurred, and won the love of the soldiers by her tender care of the wounded after the battle. And when, during Colonel Chapin’s long illness, her own time of suffering came, the devotion of the men of the old regiment served to knit still closer the ties that united them.
Year after year she has attended the reunions, a loved and honored guest, and bot she and the members of the old regiment look forward during the months which elapse between the meetings to the coming of the fall and the gathering of the survivors, and the renewing of recollections of times and faces that are no more.
Contributor: JNM (47123207)
Saturday, Jan 17, 1920 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Twogood Chapin, widow of Colonel Alfred Chapin of the Tenth Wisconsin Infantry and pioneer resident of this section, died yesterday in Rockford. She had been ill the last six weeks, of infirmities incident to advanced age.
Mrs. Chapin came here with her father Sidney Twogood, a veteran of the war of 1812, who purchased a tract of land where the old Kishwaukee trail crossed at the ford near the present village of Cherry Valley. Indians were numerous when her family first located here.
Her marriage to Alfred Chapin was an event of July 30, 1859 at Chicago. They settled in MIlwaukee, where Mr. Chapin became established in business and was first Lieutenant of the Milwaukee Light Guards. Later he organized and became Colonel of the Tenth Wisconsin regiment and Mrs. Chapin followed the regiment when it went south and ministered to the suffering who fell on the field of battle
As the result of a wound incurred in battle, Colonel Chapin broke down and died in Rockford Dec. 20, 1866. The Chapin home at 635 Longwood street was for many years a center of social and civic activities, Mrs. Chapin’s charms of mind and manner attracting to her a wide circle of admiring friends. She was able to and speak brilliantly on all leading topics of the day and her reminiscences of early days in this vicinity were of large interest to the present generation.
Mrs. Chapin was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Daughters of 1812, of the Rockford Woman’s club and of other social and welfare organizations.
The only immediate relative surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Coonradt of 629 Third street.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1912 / Morning Star / Rockford, IL
Mrs. Sarah Chapin leaves today for Delavan, Wis. to be present at the annual reunion of her husband’s old regiment, the Tenth Wisconsin infantry, which is held at that place.
Year by year the band is growing smaller. There are now less than one hundred left of that splendid band of men who followed Colonel Chapin into the fight at Perryville in the autumn of 1862, the battle where both the Tenth Wisconsin and our own Seventy-forth received their baptism of fire.
Our own regiment was only on the edge of the battle--their turn came later, at Stone River--but the Tenth Wisconsin was literally cut to pieces. Mrs. Chapin was visiting her husband at the front at the time this occurred, and won the love of the soldiers by her tender care of the wounded after the battle. And when, during Colonel Chapin’s long illness, her own time of suffering came, the devotion of the men of the old regiment served to knit still closer the ties that united them.
Year after year she has attended the reunions, a loved and honored guest, and bot she and the members of the old regiment look forward during the months which elapse between the meetings to the coming of the fall and the gathering of the survivors, and the renewing of recollections of times and faces that are no more.
Contributor: JNM (47123207)
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