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id	first	middle	last	dob	dod	cod
103	Margaret	Eunice Hulet	Chappel		9/20/1856

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
	FALSE		Adams Street

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	R8 G13

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William H. Chappel (husband) Rowland G. Chappel (son, 30 Jun 1852-28 Jul 1854) Fletcher Hulet (father, 7 April 1803-5 Nov 1882 Frances "Fanny" Granger (mother, b. 15 June 1803, d. 2 January 1865) Martha Hulet Lyon (sister, b. c 1830) Clara "Clarissa" Somers Hulet Wheeler (sister, b. c 1834) Gilbert Mather Hulet (brother, b. c 1836, d. 6 Nov 1854) Harriet G. Hulet Walker (sister, b. c 1841, d. 28 July 1928) Marshall Fletcher Hulet (brother, b. c 1846) John Hulet, Sr. (paternal grandfather) Hannah Hulet (p1aternal grandmother) for more genealogy, see entries for his parents

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Margaret was born c. 1832 in Brunswick, OH, where her parents, Fletcher and Fanny Hulet, had a farm. Margaret's father had emigrated to Brunswick from MA and would later go to Berea to become one of Berea's most prominent citizens, quarry and gristmill owner who dedicated his life to promoting the interests of the Baldwin Institute and Baldwin University (Walker 1-6). Her mother was a gentle woman who was known for her gracious manners and excellent coffee ("Memorial to the Pioneering Women"). For more information, including census records, see entries on Fletcher and Fanny Hulet. Margaret's parents were from the first committed to educating their girls as well as their boys. Martha, Margaret, and Gilbert, the three oldest, all went to a district school in Brunswick, where they had six hours of lessons a day and three on Saturdays. Their father then drilled and quizzed them at home. When their father heard that the Baldwin Institute was being constructed in Berea, he moved his entire family there for the express purpose of schooling his girls (Walker 2-3). Baldwin Institute records show Martha, Margaret, and Clara [Clarissa] Hulet as members of the very first class of 1846 (Baldwin Institute Catalogues; Shaw 32). Gilbert also attended (Walker 3), and sisters Harriet and Clara later taught there (Walker 5, notes on Thomas B. Walker and Harriet G. Hulet in Hulet family file). When Fletcher and the girls first arrived in Berea, they lived in a two-room shanty within short distance of the school. However, Fletcher's fortunes rapidly improved, and soon they were able to move into a well-appointed house on the fashionable south side of town, which daughter Harriet called "the most stylish house in town," (Walker 3; 1850 US Federal Census). This house was soon graced with the first piano in town, which Margaret, a beautiful singer, must have loved (Walker 3, 4). Fletcher also served as the third mayor of Berea in 1855 and 1856 (Shaw 6, Labaj CD). Margaret married William Chappel on 5 July 1853; Rev. Liberty Prentice (father of Thomas Liberty Prentice) performed the marriage (William A. Chappel-Margaret E. Hulet marriage license). Interesting note: The maiden name of Mary Baldwin, wife of John Baldwin, was Chappel. Were they related? (See entry on Huldah Baldwin.) Margaret's story ends in sadness. Her sister Harriet wrote: "Margaret married William H. Chappell, lived long enough to lay one baby boy in his grave, and then faded away" (Walker 4). There is a Cuyahoga County marriage license for William A. Chappel and Margaret E. Hulet (Historical Marriage License Index online, vol. 5, p. 379). William H. Chappel bought a one acre lot on the west end of Main St., near the Hulet family home, on May 29, 1854. The sellers, John and Mary Baldwin, inserted the following proviso in the deed: "providing and reserving that no intoxicating liquors shall ever be sold or given away under any pretence whatsoever on the premises or in the streets or alleys adjoining the same forever and also…that no stone quarry shall ever be opened on said premises or any stone quarried therefrom." The lot cost $200 (Wiliiam Chappel deed, 6 Dec 1854). Perhaps William and Margaret anticipated raising a family in Berea. Their son, Rowland, was born June 30, 1852, but he died shortly after their new lot was purchased, July 28, 1854. He was two years and 28 days old ("Inscriptions"; Labaj). Margaret and William sold the same lot of land to Henry Parker for $400, with the same limitations on alcohol and quarrying, on 14 May 1856. Margaret appeared personally to consent to the sale and signed the deed (William Chappel deed, 3 June 1856). She died a few months later, on Sept. 20, 1856 ("List of Burials and Names"). Harriet stated further: "She was a beautiful girl, a fine student, a magnificent singer, and a warm-hearted christian. Her husband was a southern man and returned to the South--took the rebel side in the war, and stood within twenty feet of Marshall [Margaret's younger brother] on one battle field, where the two forces contended stubbornly for the possession of a hill, until the mound of dead rivalled in size the mound of earth over which they had fought. He lost a leg in the war, returned to his southern home and died in Nashville the past winter. About a month before his death Marshall visited him and saw the girlish picture of Margaret given him before their marriage and which he had treasured through all the years of separation, sorrow, bloodshed and woe" (Walker 4-5). Margaret does not appear in Berea's records of burials, perhaps because she was buried on land that was at the time part of Fletcher Hulet's estate, which he donated to the cemetery after his wife's death, in 1866 (Fletcher Hulet deed, 3 Dec 1866). There were no local newspapers to eulogize Margaret at the time. In 1904, her stone was transcribed as saying "Margaret E., dau of Fletcher and Fanny Hulet, and wife of W.H. Chappel, d. Sept. 20, 1856, ae 24 yrs". In a 1934 transcription, the stone was read as "Margaret E., dau of F. & F. Hulet and wife of W. H. Chappel, died Sep 20, 1856, age 24". In 2007, her white marble stone was found covered with lichens and grime, and only the name and part of her relations legible. The west face bears the inscription "OUR DAUGHTER." Margaret Chappel's had a marble tablet on base headstone. It was 26 inches high, 17 7/8 inches high, and 2 and 3/4 inches thick. It was in sound condition and was a 2 for severity of condition (1 being the least and 5 being the most). The severity of its condition was due to vegetation and weathering. There was a previous repair with cement. In 2009, the tombstone was cleaned with D-2 and water. The headstone was inscribed: "Margaret E. dau. of F. and F. Hulet wife of W.H. Chappel d. Sept. 20, 1856 ae 24 yrs" (West Face) and "OUR DAUGHTER" (East Face). Margaret died on September 20, 1856.

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Excerpt from "Memorial to the Pioneering Women of the Western Reserve," Women's Department of Cleveland Commission, 1896. Harriet Hulet Walker, "Fletcher Hulet," biography written for Hulet family reunion, published in the Berea Advertiser, 29 July 1887; citing incomplete copy in Hulet family file, Berea Historical Society. Catalogues of the Institute and Baldwin University, 1846-1867, bound copy, Baldwin Wallace Historian's House Willard H. Shaw, A Collection of Historical Facts on Berea, Ohio. Centennial,1836-1936. Souvenir edition. Berea, OH: Mohler Printing Co., 1936. Unsigned notes on Fletcher Hulet, Thomas B. Walker and Harriet G. Hulet Walker, Hulet family file, Berea Historical Society. 1850 US Federal Census, Fletcher Huolet household, Series: M432 Roll: 673 Page: 183 William A. Chappel and Margaret E. Hulet marriage license, Historical Marriage License Index online, vol. 5, p. 379. Don Labaj, Berea Families CD, 2006 Fletcher Hulet deed, 3 Dec. 1866; Wiliiam Chappel deeds, 6 Dec 1854 and 3 June 1856, Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Margaret E. Hulet tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2006. Sample Survey Sheet for Individual Burial Markers, Margaret E., J. Orlando, 23 July 2009.