Harry Chapfield

Harold "Harry" Chapfield was a wandering vagrant and musical genius who famously traveled across the United States of America time after time again. He composed over 90% of all guitar-oriented songs, but was only given proper acknowledgment after his unfortunate passing.
==Early Life==
Harold Henry Chapfield was born on April 6th, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts to Oliver and Sylvia Chapfield and was their first child, preceding his younger siblings Danny and Bridgett. Harry only went to school until his father was injured in a boating accident. To keep his family afloat, Harry started working at a cross-country railroad company. In his downtime, he began to learn to play the guitar.
At the age of seventeen, Harry was involved in an armed robbery at a small corner store. A masked gunman entered the store and demanded money from the clerk when Harry took the man to the ground and engaged in a scuffle. During the brawl, Harry took two bullets to the side of his abdomen which forced him to quit his job. In the absence of working, he'd continue to practice playing the guitar, refining his skills even further.
==First Trip==
Slinking into a depression after his injury, Harry was at a low. After his nineteenth birthday, his mother suggested he take a trip across the country on one of the trains the railroad company operated to get a new outlook on life. With no better options, Harry obliged and set off on his first cross-country trip with nothing more than his guitar. Traveling the country gave Harry time to reflect on many aspects of life. From life and death to existence and nonexistence. Right and wrong, good and bad, fortunate and unfortunate. During this time, Harry would create his first songs, using the wooden walls of the boxcar he traveled in to write notes down. Later on, this boxcar would sell for $75,000,000.
Harry's first trip came to an end at Sunset Cape, California. Here he'd meet his longtime girlfriend Clarisse Ponticelli, who'd travel with him on his trips back and forth across the country. The two sparingly talked in public and were rarely seen together at anyplace that wasn't his boxcar, but they were said to be incomparably happy together.
Harry returned to Boston with Clarisse and the two stayed put for nearly a year before Harry departed on another nationwide trip. Clarisse would come with him but stay behind at Sunset Cape once the pair arrived, deciding to make a home for the two there while Harry went about his traveling. 
==Continued Vagrancy==
Harry's travels continued on for most of his life, as did his passion for the guitar and Clarisse. He continued to write songs as he traveled, filling an insurmountable amount of notebooks with his songs. Through his travels, Harry developed a small group of fans in cities he stopped at throughout the country. Though noted to be reserved, people were captivated by Harry's songs.
Harry's family would continue to meet with him whenever he returned to Boston. Harry's mother, Sylvia, said that despite the time away, Harry and his siblings "always got on great together" and "there was never a frown in the house when Harry was home." Harry's relationship with Clarisse would continue on just strong, despite the limited amount of time they spent together. She would join him on trips every now and then, sometimes with the two staying put in a place for anywhere between a day to a month.
It's said that Harry traveled across the country five hundred times in his lifetime.
==Death==
On September 4th, 1976, Harry was going for a walk through Center Park in Uptown Downtown when he was held by gunpoint by a mugger. The confrontation was short and ultimately resulted in Harry receiving five gunshots to upper torso. Harry was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 44. A private funeral was held by his family and attended by them, Clarisse Ponticelli, a small group from the railroad company and an even smaller group of fans from the East Coast region. This would be the last time Clarisse Ponticelli would be seen in public, as she has not been seen or heard from since. 
==Legacy==
Sometime after his passing, a tremendous plethora of notebooks containing songs written by Harry were released to the public by his family, with them urging that the songs be shared around and enjoyed, just as Harry would have wanted them to be. The music was picked up by many artists throughout the years, ranging from superstar bands to entertainment composers. This propelled the legend of Harry Chapfield into superstardom and made his name one of the most famous of modern history. The last song Harry composed was found to be the hauntingly appropriately named Song of No Return, speculated to have been written the very day he was murdered, written on the wall of his famous boxcar.
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