Inie May (Gage) Chapel (1863 - 1954)

Born 31 Mar 1863 in Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States

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Died 2 Jan 1954 at age 90 in Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Inie was the only daughter born to Benjamin Franklin Gage (a Civil War veteran) and his wife Edith Orilla (Bonney) Gage. Benjamin came back from the war in precarious health. He worked in various, ill-paying jobs. Edith was a highly talented artist, so when her husband was not able to provide something for the family, she would paint a few paintings and sell them.^[1][2]

Inie attended college and later married Frederick Chapel on 16 Jul 1892 in Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan.^[3] She and Fred lived happily with their two sons in Charlevoix, Michigan.^[4][5] Fred was a pharmacist who owned his own drugstore. When their firstborn son died from tuberculosis,^[6] the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Inie went on to be a successful journalist and author of a World War I cook book under the pseudonym, Aunt Prudence. It was called, "An All-Western Conservation Cook Book" (1917). The text tells you how to determine how hot an oven is, what the relative cost of heating your oven with coal, gas, wood, etc., and how that impacts your food budget; recipes, other handy tips. It's available on Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/allwesternconser00chap. In the 1920 Federal Census, they are living in Portland, Oregon. Fred is a druggist and Inie gives her profession as "Journalist." She was hired by a local department store to speak on how to use substitute flour in WWI recipes in March of 1918.^[7]

When Fred died, she moved to Los Angeles to be near her sole surviving son, Franklin Gage Chapel and his family.^[8] She lived in Los Angeles for the next twenty-five years. She died in 1955 and is buried in Portland, Oregon.^[9]

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1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHHK-W8T : accessed 12 March 2016), Ina M Gage in household of B F Gage, Michigan, United States; citing p. 36, family 309, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,170.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWSQ-CF1 : accessed 12 March 2016), Inie M Gage in household of Benjamin F Gage, Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district ED 59, sheet 337A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0578; FHL microfilm 1,254,578.
3. ↑ "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3XZ-QP4 : 18 February 2021), Fred N. Chapel and Ina May Gage, 19 Jul 1892; citing Marriage, Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, , Citing Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 4208247.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M91T-1XS : accessed 21 January 2022), G Ivie Chapel in household of N Fred Chapel, Charlevoix township Charlevoix village, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15, sheet 5B, family 121, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,706.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLPG-VWG : accessed 21 January 2022), Chapel in household of Frederick Chapel, Charlevoix Ward 1, Charlevoix, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 21, sheet 3A, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 641; FHL microfilm 1,374,654.
6. ↑ "Minnesota, Death Records and Certificates, 1900-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD92-RZ3 : 29 October 2020), Inie in entry for Wilfred Chapel, 1911.
7. ↑ https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85042444/1918-03-17/ed-1/seq-16/#words=Aunt+Chapel+Gage+Prudence. Accessed 20 Jan 2022.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCVL-3KJ : accessed 21 January 2022), Inie G Chapel, Los Angeles (Districts 0251-0500), Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 395, sheet 20A, line 18, family 297, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 147; FHL microfilm 2,339,882.
9. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59270750/inie-g-chapel : accessed 20 January 2022), memorial page for Inie G. Chapel (1863–1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 59270750, citing Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA ; Maintained by Bonnie (contributor 47270685) .

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Acknowledgements

• Franklin Gage Chapel, Jr. who started this profile on paper in the 1950s.