Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 13, 1849, Ing­ham Coun­ty, Mi­chi­gan.

Died: Ap­ril 25, 1889, Mt. Plea­sant, Mi­chi­gan.

Buried: Glen­wood Cem­e­te­ry, Flint, Mi­chi­gan.

Wife of preach­er Ed­win Will­ard Chap­man, and mo­ther of three child­ren, Ang­ie Chap­man helped her hus­band co­ver sev­era­l rur­al cir­cuits of the Free Meth­od­ist move­ment, and as­sist­ed on evang­el­ism tours. In 1866, she and her hus­band were work­ing in Spar­ta, Mi­chi­gan, and helped found the first Free Meth­od­ist Church in Grand Ra­pids, Mi­chi­gan, around that time. She pub­lished her first hymn, Thou Shalt Rest at Eve, in 1882. About 1888, fol­low­ing an evan­gel­is­tic tour of Kan­sas, they moved to Lin­coln Town­ship, Is­a­belle Coun­ty, Mi­chi­gan. Dur­ing the next few years, An­gie wrote several hymns, most of which were pub­lished af­ter her death. Her daugh­ter Ada­belle Chap­man Dil­la­baugh pub­lished a book of her own po­ems, Com­fort and Cheer, and on pag­es 76 and 77 she in­clud­ed “Mo­ther’s Un­fin­ished Hymn.”

Lyrics

  1. Gather the Golden Grain
  2. Nothing Between
  3. Thou Shalt Rest at Eve
  4. We’ll Never Say Goodbye
  5. Whosoever Will May Come (sometimes attributed to her hus­band)