VIENNA – The Daniel Chapman Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution [of Vienna, Illinois] turned 100 today. The charter was received Nov. 3, 1909.
May Chapman, the wife of Pleasant Thomas Chapman, had been a DAR member in Washington, D.C., and thought Johnson County should have a chapter. On Aug. 10, 1909, “or thereabouts,” according to 1909 minutes, Mrs. Chapman and five other women gathered at her home to organize a chapter.
Those six original members were Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Orrie Thacker, Miss Althea Thacker, Mrs. D.W. Whittenberg, Mrs. Eva McKenzie Huffman and Mrs. Georgia Blanchfill Gillespie.
Read the full article by Dixie Terry in the November 3, 2009 edition of The Southern.
