Chaplin, Raymond Virgil

1925 - 1976  (51 years)

• Name	Chaplin, Raymond Virgil
  Birth	2 Apr 1925	Illinois   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	CHAP.R003
  _FGRAVE	77754538
  Death	16 Apr 1976	Louisiana   [1]
  	Lost at sea from Rig No. 93. Final resting place - Gulf of Mexico
  Burial	Crest Haven Memorial Park, Claremont, Richland County, Illinois   [2]
  		Headstone, Chaplin, Raymond V. Lost at sea from Rig No. 93. Final resting place - Gulf of Mexico
  Person ID	I37487	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Chaplin, Russell J.,   b. 29 Mar 1904, Richland County, Illinois d. 3 Apr 1982, Richland County Memorial Hospital, Olney, Richland County, Illinois (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Heap, Ida Myrtle,   b. 13 Dec 1906, Richland County, Illinois d. 13 Jan 1995, Richland County Memorial Hospital, Olney, Richland County, Illinois (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	5 Jun 1924	Calhoun, Richland County, Illinois   [3, 4]
  Age at Marriage	He : 20 years and 3 months - She : 17 years and 6 months.
  Family ID	F11052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 2 Apr 1925 - Illinois Death - 16 Apr 1976 - Louisiana Burial - - Crest Haven Memorial Park, Claremont, Richland County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Raymond V. Chaplin, 51, of Brookhaven, Mississippi, formerly of Richland County, has been missing since Friday April 16, 1976 and is presumed drowned following an oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico. He was reported missing at 6 a.m. on that date, while he was working on a rig about 40 miles off the coast of Venice, La. Mr. Chaplin, an employee of the Diamond M. Drilling Co., had gone below the rig to check equipment and was to have radioed a report at 6 a.m. When his report was not received, a search was started by the U.S. Coast Guard and oil company crews, with negative results. Mr. Chaplin was a 1942 graduate of Olney Township High School and entered the U.S. Army Air Corps after graduation during World War II.After the war, he worked in oil fields in this area for about three years and went to Oklahoma, where he lived in Chickasha and worked in oil fields there. For a three-year period, about 1959-1962, he returned to Richland County, then moved to Mississippi about 1962, working on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He had been an employee of the Diamond M. Co. the past six years. He was formerly a member of the First Methodist Church in Olney and was a member of the Easthaven Baptist Church in Brookhaven, Miss.

  
  

• Sources

  [S12087] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Chaplin, Raymond V., 51, (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77754538), none. (Reliability: 2). [S12088] https://www.findagrave.com, Headstone, Chaplin, Raymond V., (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77754538/raymond-virgil-chaplin), none. (Reliability: 2). [S7156] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Chaplin, Ida M., 88, (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54613031), none. (Reliability: 2). [S7163] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Chaplin, Russell J., 78, (https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54613158), none. (Reliability: 2).