Sallie F. Chapin

Sallie Flournoy Moore Chapin (March 30, 1830 - April 19, 1896) was an American author and temperance worker. She was affiliated with the Ladies' Memorial Association, Soldiers' Relief Society, Ladies' Auxiliary Christian Association, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), and the Woman's Press Association of the South.

Early life Sarah ("Sallie") Flournoy Moore was born on March 30, 1830, in Charleston, South Carolina. Her maternal ancestors, Elizabeth Martha Vigneron Simons, were Huguenots, who came to the Colonies in 1685 and settled in Rhode Island. Her two great-grandfathers, Vigneron and Tousager, were killed in the Revolutionary War. She had Scottish relatives on her father's side. Her father was a Methodist minister and he moved to the northern part of the State. Moore's father died in the pulpit at a union camp meeting, during the Civil War, after receiving a dispatch announcing the death of his son in a battle.

Moore was reared and educated in Cokesbury, South Carolina.

Sallie Chapin died on April 19, 1896.