Vera Beatrice Chapman

Abt 1885 -

• Name	Vera Beatrice Chapman  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1885	Illinois, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I5748	Full
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2013

  
  

  Family	Walter Louis Warren,   b. 25 Jan 1881, Ellis County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 30 Jul 1960, Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	31 Dec 1919	Fountain, Pueblo County, Colorado, USA   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Vera Chapman Warren,   b. 12 Mar 1921, Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA ,   d. 9 Apr 2013, Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA  (Age 92 years)
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2013
  Family ID	F2060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  I spoke with two of Vera's daughters, Nancy and Laurie. They informed me that their mother (Warren's daughter) had never even known of his first marriage until near the time of her own mother's death. Her mother either did not know or did not tell her that she had three half-siblings from Walter's first marriage. Late in daughter Vera's life she received a call from a Warren researcher (the same one that contacted me). He was not aware that she did not know about Walter's first three children and brought them up. She (Walter's daughter Vera) was shocked and very disturbed. She had been raised as an only child and had never known that she had half-siblings. The three siblings were dead by the time she knew about them. She was unable to reconcile her image of her kind, loving, faithful father, with his desertion of his first family, and his lack of interest in or relationship with the children of that marriage. After learning of her half-sibilings, Vera realized that she had met Della, his first wife, and Gae/Kathleen, his daughter from that marriage. When she was a very small girl a woman named Della visited them. She had with her a daughter "Kathleen," who lived in Las Vegas. Nancy (Mudge) Coggon said that they learned that KAthleen had wanted to meet her father, and Della took her. Vera, very young, was present at the meeting, but had no idea of who they were--or that the girl was her half-sister. Walter told his second family that he served in WWI and his granddaughters seemed to believe that his marriage was at least partially a result of that separation. Whereas Della always said that he went to South America and was never heard from again. Clearly, she knew where he was since she took her daughter to meet him. Nancy M Coggon 65+ years old Phone number 360-293-0103 Address 12937 S Wildwood Ln Anacortes, WA 98221-8783 Granddaughters of Walter Warren and Vera B. Chapman. Laurie Nelson 65+ years oldOptions Phone number 208-835-3953 Address 1291 Orchard Loop Rd Troy, ID 83871-9646

  
  

• Sources

  [S4011] 1930 U.S. census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Covina, Covina township, enumeration district (ED) 19-900, sheet 5A, p. 215 (stamped, recto), dwelling 96, family 3, Walter L. Warren household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 November 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 124. [S4014] "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SYBQ-HQB : accessed 2013-11-21), entry for Walter Louis /Warren/.