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.”

Hymns

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