As a young man he started planting his apple seeds across the land. He made it to Indiana and Ohio. Johnny's father re-married Lucy Cooley and they had ten children.

John was never married, and there are no records found so far.

Thats where my lineage comes in. Parley Chapman was their 3rd child. Parley is my great-great-great-great grandfather.

Disney made a short cartoon of this american legend. There have been many books written about Johnny as well. One that is a good reference book is called "Better known as Johnny Appleseed" by Mabel Leigh Hunt.

The top half says:

"Along about 1800 when the first settlements were springing up along the Ohio, John Chapman "Johnny Appleseed" loaded his canoe each spring with seeds from cider mills in western Pennsylvania, paddled down the river, giving every settler a portion of the seed. He was led by a vision of orchards blossoming and bearing fruit where there was only wilderness."

Th bottom half says:

"Led by the vision of a frutiful tomorrow we plant today the seeds for our progress through ingenuity, initiative and industry-for our security through war bonds, savings accounts, life insurance to dare to dream-with courage to the back the dream with action has been the way of progress in our American Democracy."

This is a postcard of his gravesite in Ft. Wayne, Indiana:

This is a bridge Dedicated to the memory of Johnny.