Childhood Memories

Millie and Grant

Millicent Chapman was born 22 April 1913 in the Tucker House on Washington Ave in Belleville, New Jersey to William Osborne Chapman and Sarah Eleanor Grant.  She was baptized in the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, NJ on 14 Dec 1913.  The family lived in various residence in New Jersey before finally settling in Peapack in 1922.  Millie recalled that at each of the residences her father build a gazebo of some sort.

"I believe I had a pretty good life. Oh, I fell in my crib one day and hit the railing.  One front tooth was missing and my mother couldn't find it anywhere. She took me to the dentist. ( I enjoyed the up and down of the chair). He said he thought it (the tooth) had been pushed back up into the gum and in a short time would reappear. Which was exactly what happened. It was always slightly shorter than the others."

Grant, Millie and Sadie with the Model A 1922

Perhaps not a memory but hearsay, "For the first year of my life, my Mother's doctor at that time, told her to give me nothing but milk, until I finally when 1 year old refused to touch it anymore. And didn't again until I came back from overseas - 31 years later. I always ate poorly, which my mother attributed to a lack of taste for food, but I've always been healthy."


Millie remembers her first car....  

Another memory of growing up was her dog for a day.....Some friends had given her a puppy, however, it was not housebroken and it was underfoot so her mother made her return it the next day.