David Chapman was born May 30th, 1888. He was the son of Joseph Chapman and Caroline Coshell Chapman.
He had a fiercely protective mother, and unhappily, a personality clash with his father. His father seemed to dislike him from a very tender age.
He joined the R.O.T.C. in school and enjoyed this training very much.
Early in his life he began working for a sugar company. He held many different positions in this Sugar company during his life from clerk on up.
The sugar company sent him to Garland, Utah to help in their office there. While living in Garland he met Hazel Evans. After a year's courtship they were married on September 1st, 1909.
David Chapman was known as a very generous man. It was typical of him to want to share things with others. His wife Hazel tells the story of the day he brought a truck driver home to lunch with him. There was just enough food in the house for a lunch that had been prepared for Dave and Hazel and a visiting Aunt Barbara. David insisted on the truck driver staying for lunch anyway, and the truck driver managed to eat every bit of the food.
The bishop of the Sugarhouse Ward asked David to help in the construction of a new wardhouse. He was very generous with his time and help, and was faithful, working early and late until the Ward was completed.
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. David was the first man from Salt Lake County to register for duty in World War I (on 5 June, 1917). He served for approximately three years, but was never sent oversees because of his children.
He dabbled for awhile in politics. He assisted the Republican Party's cause.
Five children were born to David and Hazel. The were Esther, Virginia, Carol, David Marden and Eugene Henry Chapman.
Sorrow came into his life. He lost his beautiful daughter, Virginia and also her son Stephen. Somewhere through these years he became a victim of alcohol. This did not solve any of his problems, and it brought eventual separation from his wife. They lived apart for the rest of his life, but they never divorced.
David Chapman was ill for the last twenty years of his life. He spent these years in nursing homes and in hospitals. His leg was amputated in 1955 because of some circulatory disorder.
He died of multiple causes on November 3, 1959, and is buried in the City Cemetery in Lehi, Utah.
He had a fiercely protective mother, and unhappily, a personality clash with his father. His father seemed to dislike him from a very tender age.
He joined the R.O.T.C. in school and enjoyed this training very much.
Early in his life he began working for a sugar company. He held many different positions in this Sugar company during his life from clerk on up.
The sugar company sent him to Garland, Utah to help in their office there. While living in Garland he met Hazel Evans. After a year's courtship they were married on September 1st, 1909.
David Chapman was known as a very generous man. It was typical of him to want to share things with others. His wife Hazel tells the story of the day he brought a truck driver home to lunch with him. There was just enough food in the house for a lunch that had been prepared for Dave and Hazel and a visiting Aunt Barbara. David insisted on the truck driver staying for lunch anyway, and the truck driver managed to eat every bit of the food.
The bishop of the Sugarhouse Ward asked David to help in the construction of a new wardhouse. He was very generous with his time and help, and was faithful, working early and late until the Ward was completed.
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. David was the first man from Salt Lake County to register for duty in World War I (on 5 June, 1917). He served for approximately three years, but was never sent oversees because of his children.
He dabbled for awhile in politics. He assisted the Republican Party's cause.
Five children were born to David and Hazel. The were Esther, Virginia, Carol, David Marden and Eugene Henry Chapman.
Sorrow came into his life. He lost his beautiful daughter, Virginia and also her son Stephen. Somewhere through these years he became a victim of alcohol. This did not solve any of his problems, and it brought eventual separation from his wife. They lived apart for the rest of his life, but they never divorced.
David Chapman was ill for the last twenty years of his life. He spent these years in nursing homes and in hospitals. His leg was amputated in 1955 because of some circulatory disorder.
He died of multiple causes on November 3, 1959, and is buried in the City Cemetery in Lehi, Utah.
David Chapman was born May 30th, 1888. He was the son of Joseph Chapman and Caroline Coshell Chapman.
He had a fiercely protective mother, and unhappily, a personality clash with his father. His father seemed to dislike him from a very tender age.
He joined the R.O.T.C. in school and enjoyed this training very much.
Early in his life he began working for a sugar company. He held many different positions in this Sugar company during his life from clerk on up.
The sugar company sent him to Garland, Utah to help in their office there. While living in Garland he met Hazel Evans. After a year's courtship they were married on September 1st, 1909.
David Chapman was known as a very generous man. It was typical of him to want to share things with others. His wife Hazel tells the story of the day he brought a truck driver home to lunch with him. There was just enough food in the house for a lunch that had been prepared for Dave and Hazel and a visiting Aunt Barbara. David insisted on the truck driver staying for lunch anyway, and the truck driver managed to eat every bit of the food.
The bishop of the Sugarhouse Ward asked David to help in the construction of a new wardhouse. He was very generous with his time and help, and was faithful, working early and late until the Ward was completed.
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. David was the first man from Salt Lake County to register for duty in World War I (on 5 June, 1917). He served for approximately three years, but was never sent oversees because of his children.
He dabbled for awhile in politics. He assisted the Republican Party's cause.
Five children were born to David and Hazel. The were Esther, Virginia, Carol, David Marden and Eugene Henry Chapman.
Sorrow came into his life. He lost his beautiful daughter, Virginia and also her son Stephen. Somewhere through these years he became a victim of alcohol. This did not solve any of his problems, and it brought eventual separation from his wife. They lived apart for the rest of his life, but they never divorced.
David Chapman was ill for the last twenty years of his life. He spent these years in nursing homes and in hospitals. His leg was amputated in 1955 because of some circulatory disorder.
He died of multiple causes on November 3, 1959, and is buried in the City Cemetery in Lehi, Utah.
He had a fiercely protective mother, and unhappily, a personality clash with his father. His father seemed to dislike him from a very tender age.
He joined the R.O.T.C. in school and enjoyed this training very much.
Early in his life he began working for a sugar company. He held many different positions in this Sugar company during his life from clerk on up.
The sugar company sent him to Garland, Utah to help in their office there. While living in Garland he met Hazel Evans. After a year's courtship they were married on September 1st, 1909.
David Chapman was known as a very generous man. It was typical of him to want to share things with others. His wife Hazel tells the story of the day he brought a truck driver home to lunch with him. There was just enough food in the house for a lunch that had been prepared for Dave and Hazel and a visiting Aunt Barbara. David insisted on the truck driver staying for lunch anyway, and the truck driver managed to eat every bit of the food.
The bishop of the Sugarhouse Ward asked David to help in the construction of a new wardhouse. He was very generous with his time and help, and was faithful, working early and late until the Ward was completed.
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. David was the first man from Salt Lake County to register for duty in World War I (on 5 June, 1917). He served for approximately three years, but was never sent oversees because of his children.
He dabbled for awhile in politics. He assisted the Republican Party's cause.
Five children were born to David and Hazel. The were Esther, Virginia, Carol, David Marden and Eugene Henry Chapman.
Sorrow came into his life. He lost his beautiful daughter, Virginia and also her son Stephen. Somewhere through these years he became a victim of alcohol. This did not solve any of his problems, and it brought eventual separation from his wife. They lived apart for the rest of his life, but they never divorced.
David Chapman was ill for the last twenty years of his life. He spent these years in nursing homes and in hospitals. His leg was amputated in 1955 because of some circulatory disorder.
He died of multiple causes on November 3, 1959, and is buried in the City Cemetery in Lehi, Utah.
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