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Was in Washington's Army; Ancestor of Lincoln Man was Army Chaplain Lincoln State Journal, Lincoln, NE, Jan. 13, 1910 Interview with Moses Cheuvront scan submitted by Michael Cheuvront mchevy@earthlink.net thank you cousin!!! ... 
This is a scan of the article from the Lincoln State Journal (Lincoln, NB), from Jan. 13, 1910 entitled "Was in Washington's Army, Ancestor of Lincoln man was Army Chaplain," believed to be the first genealogical type story ever printed about Rev. Joseph Cheuvront. It contains the first printing of Joseph's "Last Words" (aside from his 1832 obituary, which was not discovered until a number of years after Moses' article was published). A reporter interviewed Moses Elsworth Cheuvront about his great-grandfather, Joseph Cheuvront, and reproduced Joseph's last words from a copy made by Moses' brother, Lemuel, in Monroe County, (West) Virginia on March 12, 1862 from a copy made by his brother Andrew, who in turn copied it from Aaron Cheuvront's original made from Rev. Joseph's slate in 1832. A number of people copied Joseph's words from this article and sent them to cousins all over the country, including Rev. Wesley L. Cheuvront who used it as the basis of his "Cheuvront Family in America." Unfortunately, Lemuel made a few mistakes in his transcricption back in 1862, and these errors mislead many researchers, including Wesley, to believe that Rev. Joseph emigrated to Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1778, when he actually resided in Germany Valley (Rockingham County, Va.) from his arrival from England in 1774 until he went to Harrison County with his father-in-law, Moses Elsworth about 1787.
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