John Chapmann, died of pneumonia near Fort Wayne, Indiana, sometime between 1845 and 1849.
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Johnny Appleseed was born on September 26, 1774 and died on March 18, 1845. Johnny Appleseed would have been 70 years old at the time of death or 240 years old today.
September 26, 1774 - March 18, 1845 so 70 years old when he died
Johnny appleseed was either a self-employed leader of a not for profit business which distributes apple seeds and founds orchards, or an unemployed drifter who planted apple trees.
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) never married and didn't father any children.
A number of monuments have been erected for Johnny Appleseed. One monument, called the Copus Monument added Johnny Appleseed's name because of the insistence of a women who knew him as a child. The Johnny Appleseed Museum is in Urbana, Ohio. Ask them! I am Anna Louise Rowlands Frye. My grandmother was a Chapman. There were Chapmans in Dexter City, Ohio just North of Marietta. Relatives, over the years have told me I am the great, great, great niece of Johnny Appleseed. Nothing I have ever read about Johnny even mentions Dexter City but there is a beautifull monument of him at that location. I was born in Dexter City.
Non-fiction. John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman was a pioneer nurseryman and New Church missionary during the late 18th and early 19th century.