CHAPIN, Stuart and Beverly

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UPDATE - This photo has been claimed by one of Beverly's children, and is being sent home!

Identification on photo: Stuart & Beverly Chapin
Photo taken: Dec 12, 1936, unknown location
Purchased: Aug 2018 at the Madison-Bouckville NY Antiques Week

This trifold Christmas Card featuring a photo of young siblings was acquired at the Madison-Bouckville Antiques Week last month in upstate New York. You can see that the parents are identified as Mr & Mrs Lester J. Chapin, and the children are Stuart and Beverly.

1930 Census > NY > Chenango > New Berlin > 106 Green Street
CHAPIN, Lester J, head, 22, born in NY of NY parents, laborer at feed store
CHAPIN, Grace L, wife, 19, born in NY of NY parents, works as servant

1940 Census > Florida > Dade County > River Park Trailer Camp
CHAPIN, Lester, head, 33, Garage mechanic
CHAPIN, Grace, wife, 29
CHAPIN, Stewart, son, 6, born in NY
CHAPIN, Beverly, daughter, 5, born in NY

Lester J Chapin, born in 1908 and died in 1991, is buried at Stockbridge Cemetery in Munnsville, Madison County, NY. According to Findagrave.com, he is the son of Jesse and Edna Chapin of Pittsfield NY, and in 1928 married Grace Beatty (1911-1997, daughter of George Beatty and Roxy Quick). 

Lester's obituary was located in the Syracuse Post-Standard issue of 26 Sept 1991, and is shown at left (click for larger version.).

His parents Jesse E. Chapin (1884-1938) and Edna M. Hand Chapin (1888-1962) are buried at the Fairview Cemetery in New Berlin NY (about 4 miles west of Pittsfield) along with an infant daughter Ethel M. (1910-1910).

Beverly June Chapin (born 11 Mar 1935) and her husband Charles Edward Shetler (b. 1933) lived in Madison NY (where this photograph/card was acquired) and have a headstone at the Stockbridge Cemetery, but there are no death dates for either. Charles died in 2013, at which point Beverly was still living.

Stuart G. Chapin is also buried at Stockbridge Cemetery in Munnsville. He died at age 74 on 26 Dec 2007.  His headstone memorializes not only himself (1933-2007), but also his wife Dorothy Rampe (1935-1986, age 49) and a son Christopher (1967-1975, age 8).

This more recent image of Stuart is taken from the online obituary for him, which can be read in its entirety at this link.

 http://www.oneidadispatch.com/article/OD/20071227/NEWS/312279995

UPDATE - A few days after posting the above Stuart & Beverly Chapin post, and mailing the photo home to Beverly's daughter, I was looking through the other photos acquired at the 2018 Madison-Bouckville show.  I found one that had slipped into another photo cover, and I was not aware I had it.  Remarkably, the "new" photo was of Lester and Grace CHAPIN. That is to say - the parents of Stuart and Beverly.

The research on them is already posted above.

This one will be joining the photo of their children, in the loving care of their family.