Reunion Updates and Announcements

  • REUNION PHOTOS AVAILABLE
    Posting #27    July 8, 2012
     
        I have created a website on Shutterfly and have uploaded 100 reunion photos contributed from Chuck Crooks and Gerard Dupczak.
     
        If anyone else has photos they'd like to contribute, please email them to me and I will create another album.
     
        The website can be found at:    http://champlinfamilyreunion2012.shutterfly.com/
     
     
    Posted Jul 8, 2012, 11:04 AM by Robert Champlin
  • E-MAIL ADDRESSES
    POSTING #26   July 3, 2012          Updated July 22
     
        People were asking about making the email addresses reunion goers "public". I have been given permission to make these available:
     
    Carder Starr                                 Narragansett, RI      carder189@gmail.com
    Marcia Eyberse                             Vero Beach, Fla      meyberse@comcast.net
    Chuck Crooks                              Vermont                 chcrooks@gmail.com
    Brett Champlin                              Chicago, Ill              brett@thechamplins.com
    Will Champlin                                Pennsylvania            willsway@atlanticbb.net
    Gerard & Cindy Dupczak              Indiana                     gdupczk@attglobal.net                    
    Lolita Champlin                             Canada                    lolita274@hotmail.com
    Bob Champlin                               Canada                    bchamplin@rogers.com
    Brenda Yarborough                      Arkansas                 brendayarbrough15@yahoo.com
    Dick & Kitty Champlin                   Oklahoma                kittydick23@gmail.com 
    Russell & Zylpha Champlin            Mississippi              champlinr@bellsouth.net
    Helen Smith                                  Rhode Island           HHSCTC@aol.com
    Mary Champlin                              North Carolina         marychamplin1204@yahoo.com
    Marcia & Brian Oliver                    Arizona                    mothercoach@aol.com
    Mary & Rollo Champlin                 Rhode Island            rollochamplin@aol.com
    Joyce & Bruce Shultis                   New York                 scorpiob@stny.rr.com
    William H. Champlin III                   Connecticut             wchamplin@haslaw.com
    Lisa Starin                                    Minnesota                lisajstar@comcast.net
    Charlene Starin                            Minnesota                cstarin@charter.net                       
    Jim Gerhardt                                 Kentucky                  jwhg@fuse.net
    Marvin & Carol Champlin              Oklahoma                 mchamp@cableone.net
    Tom Wilber                                   Connecticut              tomwilber280@hotmail.com
    Jo Champlin Casey                       Connecticut              jochamplincasey@snet.net
    Bill & Joanne Harris                       Pennsylvania             weredunromin@verizon.net
    Andrea Starin                               Minnesota                amstar44@comcast.net
    Mary Skaggs                                Oklahoma                  maryskaggs49@yahoo.com
    Gary Champlin                              Texas                        gmchamp@1scom.net
    Donald Champlin                          Michigan                   champldb@hotmail.com
    Linda Alflen                                   Michigan                   lalflen@gmail.com
     
     
    Any one else want to leave their email address?
     
     
     
     
    Posted Jul 22, 2012, 3:12 PM by Robert Champlin
  • PRUDENCE CHAMPLIN'S GRAVESTONE ON B.I.
    POSTING #25   July 2, 2012
     
        While visiting the Island Cemetery on Block Island June 21, 2012, several people came across a very old pair of gravestones in the old section. These were the stones of Prudence Champlin and her infant son, Amos Champlin. They are the only two Champlins in the cemetery who are not descended from Nathaniel Lewis Champlin who settled on the island in 1790. In fact, they are from the William line of the family. I had visited this cemetery several times in the past, most recently in 2004 and had never been able to find their stones even though I knew they were buried there. Prudence and Amos' stories follow (Prudence was the wife of Samuel Champlin):
     
     
     
                             194. SAMUEL CHAMPLIN

     

    [Jeffrey (1), William (2-3), Samuel (4)]

     

         Samuel Champlin, son of William Champlin and Mary Clarke, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island in 1708 and died at New London, Connecticut on January 20, 1779. On April 26, 1996 I located Samuel's gravestone in the Antientist Cemetery at New London. The stone is engraved as follows:

     

         "In memory of Capt. Samuel Champlin who departed this life on   the 20th day of January 1779 in the 74th year of his age"

     

         Samuel married Prudence Thompson c1735 at Westerly and was one of three brothers who married three Thompson sisters (see the Thompson Family essay following the biography of Samuel's brother, William). Early in their married life, Samuel and Prudence removed from the mainland and took up residence at New Shoreham, Block Island, where all their children were born. Prudence, daughter of Isaac Thompson and Mary Holmes, was born at Westerly on March 11, 1716 and died at New Shoreham (Block Island), Rhode Island on January 28, 1751. She is buried next to her young son Amos in the Island Cemetery there where many of us located their gravestones during the Champlin Family Reunion on June 21, 2012. The slate tombstone marking her grave, with skull and cross‑bones sculptured at its top, was probably imported from England, and bears the following inscription: "In Memory of Prudence, ye Wife of Samuel Champlin died Janry ye 28th 1750‑1 in ye 34th year of her age". A similar stone marks the grave of her son Amos.

     

         Samuel and Prudence had children:

     

                    1588. Elizabeth  (1736)

                    1589. Amos       (1738)

                    1442. Samuel     (1739)

                    1590. Susannah   (1742)

                    3991. Isaac      (1743)

                     735. Lodowick   (1745)

                    1591. Prudence   (1749)

                    1592. Ann        (1751)

     

         Following his wife's death, Samuel removed to New London. A Samuel Champlin of New London (either this Samuel or his son) was awarded 12 shillings compensation for damages done to his home by the Continental Army during their march to New York in May of 1776. Samuel's home in New London, on the corner of Washington and Brewer Streets, was built before 1740. It remained in the possession of the Champlin family for more than 150 years.

      

                   THOMPSON - CHAMPLIN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

     

                            ISAAC THOMPSON

                                l

             ___________________l______________________

             l            l            l              l

          BRIDGET      PRUDENCE      SARAH       ELIAS THOMPSON

             m            m            m              l

          JOSHUA        SAMUEL      WILLIAM           l

         CHAMPLIN      CHAMPLIN    CHAMPLIN           l

             l____________l____________l              l

                          l               ____________l____________

                          l               l        l     l        l

                          l            THOMAS*  MARY  SAMUEL  THANKFUL

                          l               m        m     m        m

                          l             HANNAH    ASA   MARY    JOHN

                          l               l________l_____l________l

                          l                           l

                          l                CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

                          l                           l

                   WILLIAM CHAMPLIN        CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

                          l                           l

                   WILLIAM CHAMPLIN        CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN

                          l___________________________l

                                       l

                                JEFFREY CHAMPLIN

     

     

    * some references give his name as John Thompson

     

     

     

     

     

                             1589. AMOS CHAMPLIN

     

    [Jeffrey (1), William (2-3), Samuel (4), Amos (5)]

     

         Amos Champlin, son of Samuel Champlin and Prudence Thompson, was born in 1738 and died at New Shoreham (Block Island) Rhode Island on February 11, 1749. He is buried next to his mother in the Island Cemetery. According to Joseph Champlin of Olean, New York, who found his stone in October 1993, Amos' stone read: "A.C. 1749".

     
        Cemetery records indicate that "Amous" died on February 11, 1750 in his 11th year. I failed to locate this stone during my visit of May 7, 1995. The stone was located by several Champlin's during the Champlin Family Reunion visit of June 21, 2012.

     

    Posted Jul 2, 2012, 10:05 AM by Robert Champlin
  • WHERE'S POPPY?
    POSTING #24    June 24, 2012
     
        As you know, we were hoping to have commediene Poppy Champlin perform live on Tuesday evening after we returned from Newport. Unfortunately, Poppy was unable to come and attempted to let me know this by email. Not owning a laptop, I did not learn this until Saturday morning after I got home from Rhode Island.
     
        "Titanic" openned Friday evening at the Court House Center for the Performing Arts in West Kingston and runs until July 15th. She will also perform July 25th at "Charlie O's" in Narragansett.
     

    From: Poppy Champlin [mailto:pophaha1@gmail.com]
    Sent: June 18, 2012 11:08 AM
    To: Robert Champlin
    Subject: reunion

     

    Hey Robert,

    Well - I hope things Champlin are shaping up just fine.  I wanted to report that my Rehearsal of Titanic has taken ahold of me and unfortunately I will not be able to attend tonight, as I have rehearsal from 3-11:00 PM and it looks to be that way for the remaining time til opening this Friday-- we do however get dinner breaks but I don't think I can fit in a performance tonight.

    My sincere apologies and I wish you well on the Reunion...If I can swing up for an hour just to meet you I will try to do that.

     

    Poppy Champlin

    213-713-4104

     

     

    Posted Jun 24, 2012, 6:06 AM by Robert Champlin
  • INTERESTING GENEALOGY ANECDOTES
    POSTING #23     June 5, 2012
     
        Joyce wrote today and offered another good suggestion for something we could do at the reunion. She suggested that an opportunity be afforded to people to tell brief stories of strange, amusing or exciting things that happened while researching family history. Know some good real life stories that happened to you or someone in the family that you know?
     
        After our banquet on Thursday we'll get an opportunity to get up and tell your favorite tall tale.
     
        Ever waiting to be seated in a crowded restaurant and hear the name Virgil Champlin called out by the hostess only to find out that there are TWO of you telling her "That's me"!
     
        What if it was 1975, Connecticut (not Tennessee) and you discover you're married to your sister and you have four children? 
     
        Ever get refused a loan because another Champlin with exactly the same name, exactly the same age and living at a former address of yours, a Champlin you have never heard of before, is a deadbeat?
     
        Well, if you have any strange tales, we'd like to hear them after dinner Thursday.
     
     
    Posted Jun 5, 2012, 12:23 PM by Robert Champlin
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