The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-30
BIG FAMILY REUNION IN MACON.
Chappell, Darlington, Adams Clan,
Which Traces Ancestry Back to
Early Days of Virginia.
Macon Daily Telegraph, May 9.

Macon Daily Telegraph, Mdy ..
At the assembly room of the public
library yesterday, from II to 2 p. M,
there was largely attended reunion
of the Chappell-Dickie- Darlington
Adams clan.
The meeting opened with prayer by
Judge Ira Stanley Chappell, of Dublin,
after which there was brief address
by the president, Samuel Lee Adams,
of South Boston, Virginia.
Letters of regret at inability to at
tend were read from Mrs. Philip E.
Chappell, of Kansas City, Mo-, widow
of the first president of the association;
former Lieutenant Governor J.. Chap
pell Compton, of Selma, Ala; Inspec-
tor General E. A. Darlington, of the
United States army, and others.
Philip E. Chappell, late treasurer of
Missouri, called the first reunion of
this well-known family at Atlanta No
yember 4, 1895, since which time
meetings have been held at Richmond
in 1876, Nashville 1878, st. Louis 1904,
jamestown, Va, 1907, Memphis 1909,
so the meeting here was the seventh
gathering of the clan.
All trace their ancestry back to the
early colonial days of old Virginia, to
John Chappell, owner of the ship
"SpeedwelL" who had several sons
and daughters, and intermarried with
the Dickies, Garlingtons and Adamses,
whose descendants are now scattered
over nearly all the Southern States.
"A genealogy of the family was CON-
piled by the late Philip E. Chappell,
in 1900, in which he says he found
scattered over many States members
of the clan in nearly all the profes-
sions, but never felon.
Some well-known members of the
family are Hons. Absalom H. Chap
pell, Congressman from Georgia many
years ago; James Jones, governor OF
Tennessee; Samuel Adams, the third
governor of Arkansas, and others. A
partial list of those present yester-
day were: Clifton T. Chappell, of Ma
con, who has been secretary of the as
sociation since it was organized sew
enteen years ago; DR.. T. A. Chappell,
Jacksonville, Fla; Mrs. Clifton T.
Chappell, Cecil C. Chappell, c. N. Wal
ker, A. E. Chappell, Mrs. A. E. Chap
pell, Miss Matte Chappell, Clarence J.
Chappell, Lucia P. Chappell, William
Allen Chappell, and T. M. Nash, of
Macon; Mrs. G. w. Allen, Laura Al
len, Emma Allen, Mrs. E. W. Carroll,
Marjorie Chappell Carroll, Elizabeth
Darlington Carroll, George W. Allen,
E. K. Carroll, A. E. Finley, H. NJ. Fin
ley, of Jackson, Ca, Ira S. Chappell,
Mrs. I. S. Chappell, katherine Chap
pell, Ira S. Chappell, Jr., of Dublin,
Ga; Mary Chappell, R. ] Chappell,
Joseph John Chappell, Mrs. R. J. Chap
pell, of Dudley, Ga; H. H. Harvey,
Shady Dale, Ca; Robert Chappell,
Luella, Ga; Miss Estelle Chappell,
Newberry, S. c.; 1. S. Chappell, Winns-
boro, S. c.; O. F. Chappell, Bookman,
S. c.; C. A. Waller, Greenwood, S. c.;
William T. Chappell, Ruth Chappell,
Willie Chappell, Jr, JeffersonVllle,
Ca; VIM. Robinson, Jr., Augusta, Ca;
G. w. Burkett, Dry Branch, Ga; L. B.
Chappell, Richland, Ga; Jasper Greer,
Jno. L. G. Woods, Mrs. Olin Minter,
]. Lee Malone, O. J. Minter, Monticel-
10: P. C. Malone, Cordele, Ga; Guy D.
Compton, Milledgeville; E. E. Per-
sons, Fanny K. Persons, Eastman, Ga;
Samuel l.. Adams, South Boston, Va.