Joan & Daniel Chapman

Family, Oral History

Mother and son, Joan and Daniel Chapman, share the telling of how their ancestor John Johnson came to Indiana and in 1821 witnessed an historic decision at Conner Prairie.

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Mary Lou Lofton

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Barbara Ann Steinmetz

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