1889-1945
Adoniram Judson Choplin
Farmer Missouri MO
Adoniram Judson Choplin was born on 9 November 1889, in La Monte, Missouri, the eighth child with a total of 10 siblings. His father, William E. Choplin, was from North Carolina and 38 when this son was born. A native of Missouri, Judson’s mother, Eliza Gwen Ramey, was 32 at this birth. Judson married Flora Emma Rissler on August 8, 1914, and their only child, Emma Lee, was born the next year.
Judson Choplin was a farmer and we learn something about him from Bert Means who registered Judson for military service in WWI describing him as being tall and slender with blue eyes and red hair. For some undeclared reason, Judson did not serve in this war but continued to farm in in Blackwater Township, Pettis County, Missouri, for about 20 years.
At the time of the 1930 census, Adoniram Judson Choplin is 40 years old, his wife, Flora is 36 and their daughter, Emma is 15. We learn from that census that the Choplin family had moved into Independence, MO, (1521 S. Dodgeon, SE Independence, Jackson County, MO) where they pay $15 per month rent and do not own a radio. This census reports that neither of the Choplins attended college but both could read and write.
Five years later, Adoniram Judson Choplin died April 22, 1945, in Independence, at the age of 55, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.[1]
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[1] Adoniram Judson Choplin. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KFYK-ZM9/adoniram-judson-choplin-1889-1945