Clark Chatfield & Mary Morrow

FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY

Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr.
2nd of 4 living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick
Born: Jan 9, 1839, Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio
Died: Feb 6, 1906 (age 67), Princeton, Colusa Co., California; Bright’s (kidney) disease
Buried: Feb 7/9, 1906, Princeton Cemetery in Princeton, Colusa Co., California
Military Service: Civil War, Union Army
Occupation: Farmer, businessman, store-owner, miner owner, undertaker, cattle rancher
Married (1): Sep 12, 1858, Louisa Tankersley, Havana, Mason Co., Illinois
Three children: Elizabeth, Jennie, Ida
Married (2): Mar 10, 1869, Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Morrow, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Nine named children: Della Chatfield, Ora Lovina Chatfield, Clark Samuel Jr. Chatfield, Arthur William “Art” Chatfield, Willard James Chatfield, Mabel Clair Chatfield, Jacquelin Chatfield, Levi Tomlinson “Lee” Chatfield, Margaret Emma “Marjorie” Chatfield

Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Morrow
Only known child of Arthur Morrow & Mary Margaret Gaines
Born: Sep 25, 1850, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Died: Apr 3, 1922 (age 71), Oakland, Alameda Co., California; chronic nephritis (various acute/chronic inflammations of kidneys)
Buried: Apr 4, 1922, Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
Religion: Christian Science
Occupation: Midwife
Married: Mar 10, 1869, Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Nine named children: Della Chatfield, Ora Lovina Chatfield, Clark Samuel Jr. Chatfield, Arthur William “Art” Chatfield, Willard James Chatfield, Mabel Clair Chatfield, Jacquelin Chatfield, Levi Tomlinson “Lee” Chatfield, Margaret Emma “Marjorie” Chatfield

Infant Girl
Born: Nov/Dec 1869, (probably Nemaha Co.) Nebraska
Died: after Jul 6, 1870
Buried: unknown
Note: Jul 6, 1870 census lists infant girl (8 months) “No Name,” born Nov/Dec 1869 in Nebraska

1. Della “Dell” Chatfield
Born: Jan 4, 1872, Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Died: Oct 31, 1919 (age 47), Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming; cancer
Buried: Riverview Memorial Gardens in Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming
Married: Sep 18, 1892, Elmer Ellsworth Chatfield (her first cousin), Ogden, Weber Co., Utah
Five daughters: Helen Layle Chatfield, Marian Hortense Chatfield, Sevilla Maude Chatfield, Audrey Ella, Constance “Babe/Connie” Cordelia Chatfield

2. Ora Lovina Chatfield
Born: Jul 19, 1873, Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Died: Jul 24, 1936 (age 63), Los Angeles Co., California
Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., California
Eloped: May 1889 (age 15), with her cousin, Clara Dietrich (age 26), the postmistress and general storekeeper, Emma, Eagle Co., Colorado
Married: Aug 31, 1898, Charles Elliott Shaw, Buffalo, Johnson Co., Wyoming
Separated: 1920 census Ora is in Los Angeles, Charles is in Salt Lake City
Divorced: Nov 19, 1920, Basin, Big Horn Co., Wyoming
One child: Charles Elliott “Elliott” Shaw, Jr.

3. Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr.
Born: Jun 14, 1876, Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Died: Nov 22, 1944 (age 68), Colusa, Colusa Co., California; edema
Buried: Williams Cemetery in Williams, Colusa Co., California
Married (1): Apr 27, 1899, Ida Emeline Hyatt, Hyattville, Big Horn Co., Wyoming
Five children w/Ida Hyatt: Ray, Harold Leonard, Clinton, Charlotte Mary, Norman G.
Married (2): May 21, 1911, Madge Rosa, Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado
Five children w/Madge Rosa: Lillian Chatfield, Lola Chatfield, Norma Madge Chatfield, Aura May Chatfield, Clark Samuel Chatfield, III

4. Arthur William “Art” Chatfield
Born: Aug 4, 1878, near Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska
Died: Mar 17, 1959 (age 80), San Rafael, Marin Co., California; heart attack
Buried: Colusa Community Cemetery in Colusa, Colusa Co., California
Married: Nov 7, 1900, Ada B. Miller, Basalt, Pitkin Co., Colorado, Colorado
Three children: Iris Minola Chatfield, Arthur Leslie Chatfield, Raymond LeRoy Sterling Chatfield

5. Willard James Chatfield
Born: Feb 1, 1880, Basalt, Eagle Co., or Arapahoe Co., Colorado
Died: May 4, 1900 (age 20), Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado; pneumonia
Buried: Fairview Cemetery in Eagle Co., Colorado
Never married, no children

6. Mabel Clair Chatfield
Born: Oct 12, 1883, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado
Died: Mar 5, 1960 (age 76), Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co., California
Buried: Los Gatos Memorial Park in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California
Married: Dec 17, 1902, George Reuben Sawyer, Otter Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming
One child: Ira “Ray” Reuben Sawyer (also went by Raymond I. Sawyer)

7. Jacquelin(e) “Jacq” Chatfield
Born: Feb 3, 1886, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado
Died: Dec 7, 1964 (age 78), Oakland, Alameda Co., California; stroke
Buried: Graves Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
Married: Nov 9, 1902, James Frederick “Jim” Mallon, Basalt, Pitkin Co., Colorado
Four children: James DeVere Mallon, Marjorie Maxine Mallon, Neva Harriet Mallon, Leslie Mallon

8. Levi Tomlinson “Lee” Chatfield
Born: Sep 2, 1889, Emma, Eagle Co., Colorado
Died: Sep 6, 1949 (age 60), Oakland, Alameda Co., California
Buried: Chico Cemetery in Chico, Butte Co., California
Married: Feb 3, 1923, Martha W. Banning, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California
No children

9. Margaret Emma “Marjorie” Chatfield
Born: Nov 20, 1893, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado
Died: Dec 1, 1983 (age 90), Oakland, Alameda Co., California; pneumonia, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease
Buried: Cremated at Truman’s Mortuary, Oakland, California; ashes rest under the red camellias in Niece’s front yard in Oakland
Married: May 24, 1915, Thomas Mitchell “Tom” Tuck, Lassen Co., California
Two children: John Chatfield “Jack” Tuck, Stanley Tuck

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Timeline and Records

Four living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick:
1. Isaac Willard “I.W.” Chatfield
1836 – 1921
2. Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield
1839 – 1906
3. Charles Henry Chatfield
1840 – 1864
4. Ellen Charlotte “Ellie” Chatfield
1846 – 1928

Only child of Arthur Morrow & Margarette Mary Gaines:
Mary Elizabeth Morrow
1850 – 1922

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Jan 9, 1839: Birth of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr., the 2nd of 4 living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick, in Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio

Sep 25, 1850: Birth of Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Morrow, the only known child of Arthur Morrow & Mary Margaret Gaines, in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois

Sep 12, 1858: Marriage of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Louisa Tankersley, Havana, Mason Co., Illinois
Three children: Elizabeth, Jennie, Ida

Mar 10, 1869: Marriage of Clark Samuel Chatfield (age 30) & Mary Elizabeth Morrow (age 18), his second wife, in Atchison Co., Missouri (Atchison County borders Nemaha County, Nebraska). Clark’s first wife, Louisa Tankersley, died August 18, 1868, leaving him a widower with two small daughters, Jennie (age 3) and Ida (age 9 months).

Nov 1869: Birth of a girl, 1st child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Nebraska
Note: listed as “no name” according to census record below:

Jul 6, 1870: Federal Census for Benton Precinct, Nemaha Co., Nebraska:
Chalfield, C.S.: age 32, male, Farmer, Value of Real Estate $1,000, Value of Personal Estate, $200, born Illinois (Chatfield is misspelled Chalfield)
Mary E.: age 21, female, keeping house, born Illinois (Mary Elizabeth Morrow)
Jennie: age 6, female, at home, born Illinois (born to Louisa Tankersley)
No Name: age 8/12 (8 months), female, born Nebraska (born Nov 1869 to Mary Morrow)
Francis: age 3, female, born Nebraska (Ida, born to Louisa Tankersley)
Note: Mary Morrow’s mother is living at this time in Helena, Johnson Co., Nebraska

Between 1870 and 1880: Death of Jennie Chatfield, daughter of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Louisa Tankersley, in Brownville, Nemaha Co., Nebraska

Jan 4, 1872: Birth of Della “Dell” Chatfield, 1st living child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska

Jul 19, 1873: Birth of Ora Lovina Chatfield, 2nd child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow in Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska

Jun 14, 1876: Birth of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr., 3rd child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska

Jul 8, 1876: Tecumseh Herald, Johnson Co., Nebraska (pg 2):
The following are the names of the OLD SOLDIERS, who were present on the 4th day of July 1876, and took part in the festivities of the occasion… C.S. Chatfield, 2nd Ill. cavalry…” among them.
Note: C.S. was listed among the 73 soldiers named.

Aug 4, 1878: Birth of Arthur William “Art” Chatfield, 4th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, near Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska

Feb 1, 1880: Birth of Willard James Chatfield, 5th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Summit Co., Colorado

Jun 11, 1880: Federal Census for Littleton, Arapahoe Co., Colorado:
Chatfield, C.S.: age 39, married, rancher, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio
Marey: age 29, wife, housekeeping, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois (Mary)
Ida: age 13, daughter, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Della: age 8, daughter, at home, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Ora: age 7, daughter, at home, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Clark S.: age 8, son, at home, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois (age 3)
Arthur: age 1, son, at home, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Note: The following are also listed as living in the same household:
L.C. Howell, age 32, farmer, born West Virginia
G.R. Baker, age 23, farmer, born West Virginia
R.M. Baker, age 31, dentist, born West Virginia
Note: Willard is not listed on this census.

abt 1880: Clark has a ranch in Basalt, Summit (later Eagle) Co., Colorado. The 1880 census also has him in Littleton, Arapahoe Co., Colorado by July 1882, Clark maintains his ranch in Basalt, and has a second home in Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado
* Records show the Clark Samuel Chatfield family living in Aspen, Pitkin Co., from 1882 through 1886
* Records also show them in Basalt, Eagle Co. from 1880 through 1906
* It appears from 1882 through 1886 they had residences in both towns, which were 16 miles apart.

May 14, 1882: Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Arapahoe Co., Colorado:
Ida Chatfield entertains friends at musical.
Note: Ida (age 14) is attending school in Denver.

Jun 1882: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. opens a wholesale/retail grocery store in Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado.

Jun 24, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Mr. Chatfield has leased the building of M. Galvin, on Hyman avenue, between Mill and Monarch streets, and will open a first class stock of groceries this week. Hyman avenue has needed a grocery. We believe no better location than this can be found, for it is in the heart of the resident portion of town.

Jul 1, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
The family of C.S. Chatfield arrived this week. They have taken up their residence on Hyman avenue.
Note: The family had formerly been living in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado: Clark Samuel Chatfield, age 41 and wife Mary (Morrow) Chatfield, age 31, and their children: Ida, age 15, Della, age 10, Ora, age 9, Clark Jr., age 5, Arthur, age 3

Jul 1, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Brevities
Fresh canned goods of every variety of fruit and vegetable have just been opened at Chatfield’s new store on Hyman avenue.
The prices of groceries offered our people by Mr. Chatfield are down to bed rock.
New potatoes! New Potatoes! New potatoes at Chatfield’s grocery store on Hyman avenue.
The newest and freshest stock of groceries in town can be found at C.S. Chatfield’s new store west of The Times building.
Flour! Flour! Flour! The best brand can be purchased at Chatfield’s for $8.

Jul 1 and 8, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Fresh canned goods of every variety of fruit and vegetable have just been opened at Chatfield’s new store on Hyman avenue.

Jul 22, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Hop at Corkhill’s Hall.
The dance given at Corkhill’s hall on the evening of the 14th was a very enjoyable affair. The gathering was not large, but all joined together to make the evening a success. The music was furnished by the Ashcroft orchestra, and rendered in an admirable manner.
Some of the persons that participated in the pleasure of the evening were Mrs. Wustum, Mrs. Lesher, Mrs. Plumb, Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Ida Chatfield, miss Belle Waite, and the Misses Nevitt.

Aug 5, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Brevities.
Green apples, cabbage and many other fresh things, at Chatfield’s grocery.
Every week Chatfield receives a fresh lot of fruits and vegetables.
Chatfield, on Hyman avenue, west of the Times’ office, has fine California fruit.
Try those delicious California grapes and peaches at Chatfield’s.

Aug 12, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Brevities.
Go to Chatfield’s—for lemons
Young chickens at Chatfield’s.
Fresh California fruit at Chatfield’s.
All kinds of vegetables can be had at Chatfield’s.
A Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine for sale cheap at Chatfield’s.

Aug 12, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Brevities.
Miss Ida Chatfield will leave for Denver in a few days to resume her studies.
Note: Ida is age 14.

Aug 15, 1882: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Brevities.
The finest California onions and new potatoes are sold at Chatfield’s at low figures.
Green apples, cabbage and many other fresh things, at Chatfield grocery.
Every week Chatfield receives a fresh lot of fruits and vegetables.
Chatfield, on Hyman avenue, west of the Times’ office, has fine California fruit.
Try those delicious peaches at Chatfield’s.

Dec 23, 1882: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Mining Notes.
Mr. C.S. Chatfield will have a test made on the Sinclair Tunnel ore with the view of leasing that mine.

May 26, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
While Grocer Chatfield was picturing to himself the future of this camp and counting his ore teams as they crossed Cooper avenue for the smelters down the valley, he thought he would treat himself to a pair of low cut shoes, and having just purchased a new pair of boots he thought he would cut the tops off his old ones. Bringing out a sharp jackknife he took off his boots and cut their legs off close to the foot, and a fine pair of fashionable shoes was the result, of which he was justly proud till he went to look for his new boots, when he proved up that he had cut the legs off the new boots instead of his old ones. It is evident that Chatfield will stay in the camp, and the Sun office will take the first keg of cider he brings across the range.

Aug 4, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
School Meeting.
A call to the legal voters of School District No 1 was responded to on last Tuesday by 12 or 15 persons, who met at Dr. Perry’s office on Mill street. Mr. C.S. Chatfield was made chairman, and H.L. Harding, sec’y. Considerable discussion was had regarding the levying of a special school tax, …

Sep 22, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
To-night Chatfield will have in a new and large lot of fine fresh fruit of all kinds.
Go to Chatfield’s for bed rock.
Chatfield does enough blowing about his Hamiltonian mare “Topsy” to turn a forty-horse power windmill. Price, $500.

Oct 6, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
The Politicians Philosophize.
Our moral editor, or the one who attends divine service regular and selects the choice morsels for himself, was out on a chance promenade the other day, and during his ramble picked up a few rare bits which he considers good enough to throw to the public. The parties who uttered these trite sayings are evidently of a religious turn of mind, and were most likely holding a sort of love feast.
Listen:
…
J.D. Hooper: To think kindly is good, to speak kindly is better, but to act kindly is best, and I think I have had enough of politics.
…
C.S. Chatfield: What we need is honest men in office. By gum, I think I’ll run for something myself.

Oct 12, 1883: Birth of Mabel Clair Chatfield, 6th child Clark Samuel Chatfield and Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Summit Co., Colorado

Oct 13, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield presented Mr. Chatfield with a fine baby girl yesterday morning.

Nov 17, 1883: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
Al. and Andy Surprise had a difficulty with Mr. Chatfield on Tuesday night, in which Chatfield struck Al. Surprise for insulting remarks, and they finally dispersed.

1883: Eagle County, Colorado is formed from Summit County, Colorado

Jan 5, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
ASPEN ECHOES
—Wanted—to know the whereabouts of one J.P. Lescher, by C.S. Chatfield, grocer.
Chat & Pierson sell all kinds of groceries at bed rock prices.
Apples, bolougna, sauer krout and socks at Chat & Pierson’s.

Jan 26, 1884: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Personal.
Miss Ida Chatfield has taken a position in her father’s store as bookkeeper.

Feb 10, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
The bond of C.S. Chatfield, justice of the peace for the Fifth precinct was referred to the county attorney who reported that the instrument was not in conformity with the statutes. It was referred to Mr. Chatfield for correction.

Feb 23, 1884: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
Mr. C.S. Chatfield is a rustler. He started out last Saturday morning for Gilmore’s on the other side of the range, after goods, and returned Monday evening in spite of the furious storm that swept the valley.

Mar 8, 1884: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
C.S. Chatfield has leased for a year the Interval House and ranch, at Sopris creek, of Commissioner Cramer, and on Wednesday of this week he moved his family lares et penates to that hostelry. Mr. Chatfield is very popular, and his house will be very popular with the travelers down the Roaring Fork valley.

Mar 8, 1884: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
The Citizen’s Request.
The undersigned citizens of Aspen, regardless of political affiliations, request J.D. Hooper to be a candidate upon the Citizens’ Ticket for reelection to the office of Mayor, pledging him their unqualified support in his candidacy for said office:
… C S Chatfield, …Aspen, Match 4, 1884.

Apr 19, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
ASPEN ECHOES
—For Rent.—A five roomed dwelling, $20. Apply to C.S. Chatfield

Jul 1, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Local Pickings.
C.S. Chatfield paid our office a pleasant call this week. He says his harvest is almost over and that he has one of the best crops of oats in the valley. He has about 60 acres in grain.

Jul 1, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Miss Ida Chatfield spent the week in Aspen, visiting the home of Sheriff Atkinson.

Jul 5, 1884: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Town Government.
C.S. Chatfield presented a bond of $50, asking for the reissue of warrant No. 333, which he had lost, and the clerk was instructed to issue a warrant for $9 in place of it.

Jul 19, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 1):
Commissioner’s Meeting.
July 18. Judges of the election were appointed as follows:
Rock creek——C.S. Chatfield, Fred Light, Nelson Good.
Adjourned until July 21.

Sep 13, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
Local Pickings.
C.S. Chatfield paid our office a pleasant call this week. He says his harvest is almost over and that he has one of the best crops of oats in the valley. He has about 60 acres in grain.

Sep 13, 1884: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
Local Pickings.
Miss Ida Chatfield spent the week in Aspen, visiting the home of Sheriff Atkinson.

Jan 10, 1885: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
A New House.
The name of the firm Chatfield Bros. recalls names well known, not only in Aspen but in the State of Colorado. The firm consists of I.W. Chatfield, of Denver, and C.S. Chatfield, of Aspen. They have opened a grocery and feed store on Mill street opposite the post office. They make a specialty of hay, grain, flour, butter, eggs and all other ranch produce; also mince meat in job lots. To-day they will receive a wagon load of pork spare ribs and sirloin steak. The Chatfield Bros. will soon establish a fast freight line between Leadville and Granite and Aspen, for which they have purchased four mule teams. They will carry an immense stock of good, and defy competition in prices.

Jan 17, 1885: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Business Notices.
Hay, oats, flour, poultry, butter, sirloin steak, fresh pork, etc. at Chatfield Bros., opposite the postoffice. Job lots a specialty.

Apr 11, 1885: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Local Mention.
Mr. C.S. Chatfield came up from his ranch upon Monday last. He has been appointed road overseer for his district, and says he intends to keep that great highway not only passable but a fine drive all year around. He has purchased eighty acres of ground adjoining his ranch, of Hatch and Good, and now has 340 acres of the finest ranch land in the valley. He will plow about one hundred acres this spring and sow it mostly to oats.

Jun 1, 1885: State Census for Eagle Co., Colorado: (preprinted Jun 1, 1885)
Chatfield, C.P.: age 44, married, rancher, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio (Clark Samuel)
M.E.: age 35, wife, housekeeper, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois (Mary Elizabeth Chatfield)
Ida: age 18, daughter, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Della: age 13, daughter, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Ora: age 12, daughter, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Clark S.: age 9, son, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Arthur: age 8, son, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Willard: age 4, son, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Mable: age 1, daughter, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Note: Census year begins Jun 1, 1884 and ends May 31, 1885, so not known actual date census was taken.

The Clark Samuel Chatfield family is in Eagle Co. in the census above and in Pitkin Co. in the census below.

Note: The town of Emma (Pitkin Co.) is adjacent to Basalt (Eagle Co.), with the county line running between the two towns.

Jun 1, 1885: State Census for Pitkin Co., Colorado: (preprinted Jun 1, 1885) (Clark Samuel)
Chatfield, C.: age 45, married, ranchman, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio
Mary: age 35, wife, keeps house, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois
Ida: age 19, daughter, at school, born Illinois, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Dell: age 13, daughter, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Geo: age 11, son, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois (Ora, dau)
Clark S.: age 9, son, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
A: age 7, son, at school, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois (Arthur)
Willard: age 4, son, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Mabel: age 1, daughter, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Note: Census year begins Jun 1, 1884 and ends May 31, 1885, so not known actual date census was taken.
Note: The name entry after Dell cannot be read on the actual record and was transcribed from Ora to Geo—so was mistakenly assumed a boy.

Sep 5, 1885: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Social Events and Personal Mention.
C.S. Chatfield was in Aspen on Sunday last after a new McCormick self binder which he recently purchased. The harvest will begin next week in the Rock Creek valley.

Oct 17, 1885: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Among the Ranchers.
EMMA FLAT
Within a scope of three miles of Emma postoffice, at the mouth of Sopris creek, is a fine stretch of farming land, lying on both sides of the Roaring Fork river, that is well called by the residents the garden spot of the Roaring Fork valley. Here is the largest group of ranches anywhere in this part of the state, and lies, according to all the surveys so far made, in three counties—Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle—the corner of the three both being far from the Emma house. This is about half way between Aspen and Glenwood Springs.
Proceeding down the river, the first ranch encountered, after crossing bridge No. 2 is that of Mr. Daniel Sheehi, who raised about 35 acres of oats, worth about $1,000.
The next ranch is that of C.S. Chatfield, who keeps the Interval house, a popular stopping place on the Glenwood road. Mr. Chatfield has a field of 75 acres of Oats, and has cut 25 tons of hay—a crop worth $4,000.
Adjoining and back of this ranch Mr. Elmer Chatfield has a pretty meadow as any one could wish for‚ apparently as level as a house floor, but with sufficient fall for irrigating purposes. He cut about 50 tons of hay, and 10 acres of oats that are an extraordinary yield, thought to go 60 bushels to the acre. His crop is worth $2,500.
Opposite the interval house is the Emma hotel and postoffice. Mrs. M.A. Tibbits keeps the Emma house and stage stables. Her table is acknowledged the best in the valley, and she has consequently a large patronage. Judge Benj. Prewitt is the postmaster, and gives great satisfaction to the people patronizing it.
Note: Elmer Chatfield is C.S. Chatfield’s nephew and son of Isaac W. Chatfield.

Feb 3, 1886: Birth of Jacqueline Chatfield, 7th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado

Jun 2, 1886: Eppa Strait, a good friend of Ida Chatfield (Ida is the daughter of Clark Samuel Chatfield), falls from the wooden bell tower of the Aspen Fire Company.

Jun 4, 1886: Friday morning Eppa dies and Friday evening Ida disappears from her uncle’s (I.W. Chatfield) house, distraught over the death of her friend.

Jun 6, 1886: Disappearance of Ida Chatfield, 3rd child of Clark and Louisa Tankersley, in Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado.
Note: Ida was visiting at her uncle Isaac Willard Chatfield’s home. At the time of his daughter’s death, Clark S. Chatfield appears to be living exclusively in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado

Jun 11, 1886: White Pine Cone, White Pine, Gunnison Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Ida Chatfield, a young lady of Aspen, has mysteriously disappeared.

Jun 12, 1886: Aspen Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado:
The hat of Miss Ida Chatfield, who disappeared Friday night, was found in the Roaring Fork nearly opposite to the race track. There is much speculation concerning her strange disappearance, some think she is in the river, others think she has been kidnapped and others think she disappeared of her own accord.

Jul 10, 1886: Aspen Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado:
The interest in the unknown fate of Miss Ida Chatfield remains as great as when her sudden disappearance thrilled the town. Many theories are advanced but the mystery is as deep as ever. The prevailing opinion is that she is alive and still within the city. Wednesday evening after the meeting at the Court House, armed men were stationed at all of the bridges on the roads leading out of Aspen and a sharp lookout was maintained until morning.

Aug 7, 1886: Aspen Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 1):
MISS CHATFIELD’S Body Discovered in the Roaring Fork Near Maroon Creek.
Ida Chatfield’s Body Found.
The startling news was flashed through the city yesterday that the body of Miss Ida Chatfield had been found in the Roaring Fork below Red Butte. Word was brought to town by J.F. Harding and Louis Fontaine that while fishing along the river they had discovered the body of a woman in the water. They at once notified Coroner W.E. Turley and accompanied him to the place where the body was seen. Notwithstanding her mysterious disappearance occurred no more than two months ago interest in the case has not abated. The body was found in the canyon about a hundred yards below the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Maroon Creek. It lay on the north side of the river lodge with some driftwood between two boulders. Miss Chatfield’s father has been sent for and is expected to arrive this morning. Thus has ended one of the most baffling mysteries which has ever agitated the peoples of Aspen.

Aug 14, 1886: Montezuma newspaper, Summit Co., Colorado:
The body of Ida Chatfield was found in a lot of drift wood in the river about four miles below Aspen last week Friday. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of suicide.

Aug 14, 1886: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
Mr. C.S. Chatfield talks of selling out this fall and removing with his family to California.

Sep 4, 1886: Rocky Mountain Sun, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2):
REPUBLICAN
COUNTY CONVENTION.
In accordance with instructions of the Republican County Central Committee of Pitkin county, a Delegate Convention of the Republican party of said county is hereby called to meet at the Court House in the City of Aspen on Saturday the 11th day of September, 1886, at 2 o’clock p.m., to select eleven delegates to the District Senatorial Convention, to be held at Gunnison, Colorado, September 14, 1886…
EMMA—C.S. Chatfield, B.M. Prewitt,‑——. Voting place at C.S. Chatfield’s.
THOS. ACKERMAN, Chairman Pro Tem
J.W. DOWNING, Secretary

Oct 27, 1887: View of a large crowd of people standing on the railroad tracks waiting for the first locomotive (Denver & Rio Grande) to reach Aspen (near Smuggler Mountain), Pitkin Co., Colorado. Handwritten on back of photo print: “Lizzie Halfmeister, Ora Chatfield, Cora Combs”. Not known which are the three girls, but most likely the ones in front.

Note: The three girls are listed in the 1885 census: Lizzie Halfmeister (may be Eliza Heafmaster, now age 13) Ora Chatfield (now age 14), and Cora Combs (now age 16).
Picture Source: History of the American West. 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library; Reproduction # X-6240

Basalt, Eagle County, Colorado
Basalt, at the junction of the Frying Pan River and the Roaring Fork in Eagle County, Colorado, has always been a small town. It has never had a population of more than 400 at any time. But it has grown from tents and cabins to a substantial town of comfortable homes, stores, schools, and other structures. The place originally was a railroad town with the Colorado Midland running through the center of the main street. It continued as a railroad town until 1918 when the Midland ceased to operate and the rails were torn up. Clark Chatfield (C.S. Sr.) was one of the early ranchers up the Roaring Fork.

Soon after the building of the Colorado Midland through Basalt in 1887 a group of people emigrated from Italy to the Roaring Fork Valley. The Italian emigration continued for some time after the turn of the century. All of them were very hard-working and thrifty people, forming a most valuable addition to early settlers who developed the valley. These people from Italy were Roman Catholics, but had very little opportunity to attend mass, for at that early time there was no Catholic church in Basalt, and it was a long trip by horse and buggy to Aspen or Glenwood Springs.

Residents of Basalt as listed in Basalt, Colorado Midland Town:
Chatfield: C.S. and wife; Arthur, Clark, Mable, Marjorie, Levi, Willard, Ora, Jacqueline
Chatfield: I.W., Elizah, Charles, Elmer, Jacqueline, Callia
Mallon: Jim, Jacqueline (Chatfield)

Source: BASALT: Colorado Midland Town, by Clarence L. & Ralph W. Danielson, Pruett Publishing Company
Boulder, Colorado, 1965 & 1971

Source: for Basalt information, railroad picture and ticket stub: BASALT: Colorado Midland Town by Clarence L. & Ralph W. Danielson, Pruett Publishing Company Boulder, Colorado, 1965 & 1971
Map source: insert ROUTES OF COLORADO AND DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROADS IN BASALT AREA
From: BASALT: Colorado Midland Town

Oct 27, 1888: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 2)
CONTEMPTIBLE METHODS
Mr. Hooper, that man with a record, undertook to prove by affidavits from about fifteen men, in his speech here last Saturday night, that Mr. Chatfield did not pay his men working on the Johnson mine, at Aspen, but afterwards came to the conclusion that it was Chatfield’s brother that owed these miners. We do not know the straight of this affair, and we are therefore not prepared to deny or affirm these charges, positively, as Mr. Chatfield has not been here, and we have no way of finding out anything about it. From all that we can learn it was Chatfields’ brother, and certainly a man is not at all times prepared to be responsible for a brother’s action.—Elk Mountain Pilot.

So then this is the kind of campaign Mr. Hooper is carrying on! He knows that at home, the falsity of those affidavits would be instantly shown, so he carries them out over the district and reads them to his audiences. And it appears that he was compelled to acknowledge that they were false. What a position for a man to place himself in!

The worst enemies that Mr. Hooper has in the community scarcely supposed that he would stoop to such contemptible methods. There is no doubt that some and perhaps all of the men who made such affidavits thought that I.W. Chatfield had something to do with the Johnson mine when it was under lease in the winter of ’84 and ’85. If they thought so they are not to be blamed for making the affidavits, but Mr. Hooper knows that Mr. I.W. Chatfield had nothing more to do with the lease than he had himself, and when he goes over this district making such an assertion, he places himself in a position that no honorable man would want to occupy.

Feb 19, 1889: Aspen Daily Chronicle, Aspen, Lake Co., Colorado (pg 1):
Etchings From Emma.
Emma, Col, Feb. 18, ‘89
The Valentine dance at C.S. Chatfield’s was well attended. It is reported that all had a good time. The supper, under the supervision of Mrs. Chatfield and her affable daughters, was first class.

May 1889: Ora Lovina Chatfield elopes with her cousin, Clara Dietrich, in Emma, Pitkin Co., Colorado.
Note: Ora (age 15) is the daughter of C.S. Chatfield, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Morrow, Clara (age 28) is the niece of Eliza Ann (Harrington) Chatfield, Isaac Willard Chatfield’s wife.

Jul 8, 1889: Aspen Weekly Chronicle, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
Emma’s Sensation.
Special to the Chronicle.
EMMA, Pitkin county, Colo., July 6—
Society in this section is disrupted by a love affair. Miss Clara Dietrich, postmistress and general storekeeper at Emma, and Miss Ora Chatfield are madly in love with each other, and their love has culminated in their elopement. The two ladies are supposed to be in Denver now. About a month ago Ora Chatfield was suffering greatly from nervous prostration, and upon investigation it was revealed that she was desperately in love with Clara with who she had been living. The two were torn apart and a warrant was sworn out at Aspen for Clara for the purpose of investigating her sanity. With tears in her eyes she promised the sheriff to give up her child wife. On Tuesday the lovers pretended to start for Aspen. Miss Deitrich avowed her intention to marry a gentleman in this section. Miss Chatfield, to visit relatives, went to Denver instead.

Jul 14, 1889: Knoxville Daily Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee (pg 6):
ONE GIRL ELOPES WITH ANOTHER.
The Singular Mania of Two Maidens in Colorado.
Denver (Col) Special to the N.Y. World
Two girls of Emma, Colorado, having fallen in love with each other, have eloped. One is Miss Clara Dietrich, the postmistress and general storekeeper at Emma, and the other, Miss Ora Chatfield, both nieces of I.W. Chatfield, a well known Colorado politician. A month or more ago Ora Chatfield was suffering so from nervous prostration that the matter was investigated, and it was ascertained that she was madly in love with Miss Dietrich, with whom she was living. The two were torn apart, and a warrant was procured in Aspen for the arrest of the elder girl, with an intention to have an investigation made as to her sanity.

Many interesting love letters have passed between the pair. They are supposed to be in Denver, but have not yet been found. Miss Dietrich is a blonde, 24 years of age, tall, with a good figure and commanding presence. Miss Chatfield is but about 15 years of age, rather slender, and of delicate physique. She is, however, a remarkably handsome girl, and would attract attention anywhere. She appears to reciprocate the affection of her older companion, and her letters to the latter are usually signed “Hubby” and filled with a most maudlin kind of sentimentality.

These young ladies are relatives of the Miss Chatfield who left her home one night and is supposed to have lost her life in the Roaring Fork, and for whom detectives made such a long and diligent search two or three years ago.
Note: The last paragraph is referring to Ida Chatfield, the half-sister of Ora, whose body was found in the Roaring Fork River four miles below Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado, Aug of 1886.

Sep 2, 1889: Birth of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield, 8th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado

1890: The majority of 1890 Federal Census records are not available as almost all the population schedules were destroyed or badly damaged in a fire in the Commerce Department in Washington D.C. in 1921.

1892 thru 1894: Clark Sr. appears to be living in both Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado and Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado

Sep 18, 1892: Marriage of Della Chatfield (age 20) & Elmer Ellsworth Chatfield (age 29), 1st cousins, in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah.
Note: Della is the 1st child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, Elmer is the 3rd child of Isaac Willard Chatfield and Eliza Ann Harrington. Isaac and Clark are brothers.

1888 through 1896: Isaac Willard Chatfield (brother of Clark Samuel Chatfield) has a ranch in Emma, Pitkin Co. and is also listed as a resident of Basalt, Eagle Co.

Jan 7, 1893: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
A KICK FROM EMMA.
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The Farmers’ club, of Emma, was organized here December 28, for the purpose of advancing the interest of the farmers and residents of the place. C.S. Chatfield was elected chairman, A.E. Chatfield secretary. Not much work was done at the first meeting except to organize. January 4 the second meeting was called, with a full attendance, including a number of ladies. …

Nov 3, 1894: Aspen Daily Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 6):
List of Nominations
Certified to the County Clerk of Pitkin County, Colorado, to be voted for at the General Election to be held
on Tuesday, November 6th, 1894.
For Justice of the Peace for Justice Precinct No. 5,
C.S. CHATFIELD.
(People’s Party.)
Post office address, Emma.
Place of residence, near Emma.
Place of business, near Emma.

Nov 20, 1893: Birth of Margaret Emma “Marjorie” Chatfield, 9th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado

Feb 10, 1894: Aspen Weekly Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
The bond of C.S. Chatfield, justice of the peace for the Fifth precinct was referred to the county attorney who reported that the instrument was not in conformity with the statues. It was returned to Mr. Chatfield for correction.

Nov 3, 1894: Aspen Daily Times, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 6):
List of Nominations
Certified to the County Clerk of Pitkin County, Colorado, to be voted for at the General Election to be held
on Tuesday, November 6th. 1894.
For Justice of the Peace for Justice Precinct No. 5,
C.S. CHATFIELD.
(People’s APrt.)
Post office address, Emma
Place of residence, near Emma
Place of business, near Emma

1896: Creation of Big Horn County, Wyoming
Originally Wyoming was divided into 5 counties running from the southern border to the northern border. I have been told they were set up that way so each county could have a piece of the Union Pacific RR on their tax rolls. Not much other property available.
Source: Dec 12, 2008, email from Warren Bower to Catherine Sevenau

Wyoming History
In the late 1860s, the Union Pacific Railroad began stitching Wyoming to the rest of the country, and the population increased dramatically. By the 1870s, the Native Americans had been confined to reservations, which opened lands for the new settlers. Cattle ranchers began arriving in Wyoming (many of them having driven herds north from Texas), and they were later joined by sheep herders. Bitter and violent range wars ensued between the two groups, though cattle became the more vital business in the long run.

Talk of statehood for Wyoming began as early as 1869 after the organization of Wyoming Territory in that year. The road to statehood, however, did not begin until 1888 when the Territorial Assembly sent Congress a petition for admission into the Union. Bills were introduced in both houses of Congress, but did not pass. 

Though no legislation passed Congress enabling Wyoming to follow the steps that lead to statehood, Governor Francis E. Warren and others decided to continue as if an “enabling act” had passed. On Jul 8, 1889, Wyoming Territory held an election of delegates to Wyoming’s one and only Constitutional Convention. Forty-nine men gathered in Cheyenne during Sep 1889, and wrote the constitution. The voters approved the document Nov 5, 1889, by a vote of 6,272 to 1,923. Carved from sections of Dakota, Utah, and Idaho territories, Wyoming Territory came into existence by act of Congress on Jul 25, 1868. The territorial government was formally inaugurated May 19, 1869.

At the time of its organization, Wyoming had already been divided into four counties: Laramie, established Jan 9, 1867; Carter (later Sweetwater), established Dec 27, 1867; Carbon and Albany, Dec 16, 1868. These counties extended from the northern to the southern boundaries of the territory. Upon the organization of Wyoming Territory, a portion of Utah and Idaho, extending from Montana (including Yellowstone Park) to the Wyoming-Utah boundary, was annexed and named Uinta County. As the territory and later the state became settled, the following counties were carved from the original five until there are now twenty-three counties in Wyoming
Source: www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/state-history/wyoming.html

May 3, 1898: Questionnaire from the Bureau of Pensions for Clark. S. Chatfield:
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, Washington D.C., January 15, 1898.
Certificate No. 702522
Name. Clark S. Chatfield
Sir: In forwarding to the pension agent the executed voucher for your next quarterly payment please favor me by returning this circular to him with replies to the questions enumerated below.
Very respectfully
W. Clay Grant
Commissioner.
Emma, Pitkin Co, Colorado
First: Are you married? If so, please state your wife’s full name and her maiden name.
Answer. Mary E maiden name Morrow
Second. When, where, and by whom were you married?
Answer. March 10-1969, Sonora Masura by a J.P. (note: Missouri, J.P. is Justice of the Peace)
Third. What record of marriage exists?
Answer. At Rockfort, Masura with Co. Records (note: Missouri)
Fourth. Were you previously married? If so, please state the name of your former wife and the
date and place of her death or divorce.
Answer. Yes. Louisa Tankesly, died Aug 18, 1868. (note: Clark does not state where she died)
Fifth. Have you any children living? Is so, please state their names and the dates of their birth.
Answer. Della born Jan 4-72, Ora L. July 19-73, Clark S. June 14-76, Wm. Arthur born Aug 4-1878, Willard J. born Feb 1-1880, Mabel born Oct 12-1882, Jacqueline born Feb 3-1886, Levi Tomelson born Sept 2-1889, Marjory born Nov 20-1893
Clark S. Chatfield
Signature
Date of reply May 3, 1898
Note: Clark spells phonetically and misspells the following: Missouri, Tankersly (first wife’s last name), and Tomlinson (youngest son’s middle name). His youngest daughter’s name was Margaret Emma, but she went by Marjorie. Wm. Arthur was named Arthur William.

Aug 31, 1898: Marriage of Ora Lovina Chatfield (age 25) & Charles Elliott Shaw (age 39), in Buffalo, Johnson Co., Wyoming.
Note: Ora is the 2nd child of Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield and Mary Elizabeth Morrow.

Apr 27, 1899: Marriage of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. (age 22) & Ida Emeline Hyatt (age 18), in Hyattville, Big Horn Co., Wyoming.
Note: Clark is the 3rd child of Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow.

Dec 13, 1899: Aspen Tribune, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 3):
NAME OF OWNER. Chatfield. Clark S
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY. Block 13, Township 8, Range 87

Feb 17, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Watch for the new “ad” of Smith & Chatfield.

Mar 17, 1900: C.S. Chatfield, Sr. and his son Arthur William Chatfield buy property in Basalt

Mar 17, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
C.S. Chatfield has purchased and is now occupying the C.S. Bancroft residence on High Street, adjoining the post-office building. “Art” Chatfield has also bought the Hazelton property in the rear of the Bancroft property; this will make C.S. and son a very desirable property.

May 4, 1900: Death of Willard James Chatfield (age 20), 6th child of Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado; of pneumonia

May 5, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Died. Willard Chatfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, passed away on Friday evening, after an illness of six days with pneumonia. The best medical skill proved unavailing. Willard was born February 1, 1880, and had lived at Basalt for many years, his father being connected with the firm of J.A. Smith & Co. He was possessed of many qualities of sterling worth which had endeared him to the entire community. The sincere sympathy of our people goes out to the bereaved parents in their hour of affliction. Funeral services will be held at Mr. Chatfield’s residence at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning, conducted by Rev. F.R. Hollenback. Interment will be at Fairview cemetery.

May 6, 1900: Aspen Tribune, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
LOCAL BRIEFS
Willard Chatfield, aged twenty years, died at his home in Basalt at 11:30 night before last. The funeral will be conducted from the house at 11:30 this morning and funeral exercises will be conducted at the Methodist church at Basalt this evening.
Note: Records reflect Willard’s middle name was James; his headstone denotes “I”

May 6, 1900: Burial of Willard James Chatfield in the Fairview Cemetery in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado.
Note: The cemetery is 1/4 mile east of the town of Basalt, which is in Eagle Co., but is actually located in Pitkin Co. The earliest marker is 1888.

May 12, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
At Rest.
The funeral services over all that was mortal of Willard Chatfield were held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chatfield on last Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. F.R. Hollenback preached an impressive sermon. Shortly after the noon hour the sad procession started for Fairview cemetery in the midst of a heavy rain. A great number of people paid the last tribute of respect by following the remains to their resting place.

May 12, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
The changeable weather of the past six weeks has affected a great many people in this vicinity, more or less severely. Among those who are unwell are …Arthur Chatfield and …C.S. Chatfield.

May 19, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS.
Walter D. Batchellor of Denver, a nephew of C.S. Chatfield, came up to Basalt last Sunday to attend the funeral of Willard Chatfield. Mr. Batchellor is a sales agent of The Union Coal and Coke Company at Denver. He has been giving valuable assistance at J.A. Smith’s store this week, during the sickness of Mr. Chatfield.
Note: Walter is the son of Ellen (Chatfield) Batchellor, C.S. Chatfield, Sr.’s younger sister

May 19, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Card of Thanks.
We wish to tender our many friends who gave us assistance and sympathy during the late illness and death of our beloved son, and brother, Willard, our sincere thanks and the assurance that such tokens of friendship are deeply appreciated.
C.S. CHATFIELD.
MRS. C.S. CHATFIELD.
ARTHUR CHATFIELD.

May 19, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS.
C.S. Chatfield is getting around again after a siege of Pneumonia.
Arthur Chatfield is out and around again after a spell of sickness.

Jun 2, 1900: Federal Census for Denver, Arapahoe Co., Colorado:
Chatfield, Wilard I.: head, born Oct 1834, age 56, married 39 years, born Ohio, father born unknown, mother born unknown, cattle raiser, rents home (Issac Willard Chatfield)
Eliza: wife, born Dec 1839, age 60, married 39 years, 9 children born, 5 living, born Iowa, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio,
Calla: daughter, born Dec 1879, single, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Iowa
Note: Willard Chatfield is Isaac Willard Chatfield, older brother of Clark Samuel Chatfield Sr.

Jun 8, 1900: Federal Census for Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado:
Chatfield, C.S.: head, born Jan 1839, age 61, married 30 years, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, merchandise store
Mary E.: wife, born Sep 1841, age 58, married 30 years, 10 children 8 living, (born 1849) born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois
Arthur: son, born Aug 1878, age 21, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois, R.R. (railroad) laborer
Mabel: daughter, born Oct 1883, age 16, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois, Book Keeper
Jacqueline: daughter, born Feb 1886, age 14, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Levi: son, born Sep 1888, age 11, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Margaret: daughter, born Nov 1893, age 6, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Note: Mary Elizabeth (Morrow) Chatfield states she had 10 children, 8 living: (Ida was not her birth child) Infant died after Jul 1870, Willard died May 1900, Clark, Della, and Ora are no longer living in the household. All offspring not present, but accounted for.

Jun 7 & 8, 1900: Federal Census for Hyattville, Big Horn Co., Wyoming:
Chatfield, Clark: head, born Jun 1876, age 23, married 1 year, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, farm laborer
Ida H.: wife, born Jan 1881, age 19, married 1 year, 1 child born 1, 0 children living, born Indian Territory, father born North Carolina, mother born Arkansas
Note: 1st child, Ray Chatfield: May 16, 1900 — May 25, 1900, died before this census.

Jun 15, 1900: Federal Census for Spring Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming:
Chatfield, Elmer: Head, born Jun 1863, age 36, married 7 years, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois, farmer, 82 farm animals
Note: 3 others listed in household, 2 farm laborers and a housekeeper
Note: Della (who is 5 mo pregnant with 4th child, Audrey) and their daughters, Helen, Marion, and Sevilla are not listed as they are visiting Dell’s mother in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado.

Jun 17 & 18, 1900: Federal Census for Spring Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming:
Shaw, Charles: Head, born May 1859, age 41, married 2 years, born Iowa, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, farmer, 87 farm animals
Ora: Wife, born Jul 1873, age 26, married 2 years, 1 child born, 1 child living, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Charles E., Jr.: Son, born Oct 1899, age 9 months, born Wyoming, father born Iowa, mother born Nebraska
Note: five other persons listed in same household, 4 farm laborers and a Chinese cook

Hon. Charles E. Shaw, of Otter Creek near Bigtrails post office in Bighorn County, Wyoming is one of the wealthy and progressive stock growers and farmers of the state and he has acquired his possessions and won his high place in public regard by his own efforts.
Source: Progressive Men of Wyoming, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1903

Jun 23, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS.
Mrs. E.E. Chatfield, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, returned to her home in Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, on Wednesday, after a visit of several weeks at Basalt.
Note: Mrs. E.E. Chatfield (wife of Elmer Chatfield and pregnant with 4th child) is Della Chatfield, the daughter of Mary (Morrow) Chatfield.

Jun 28, 1900: Eagle County Blade, Red Bluff, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
BASALT.
Mr. C.S. Chatfield is laid up with a sore foot, having stepped on a nail.

Jun 30, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Fairview Cemetery Association.
The Basalt Cemetery Association met at Odd Fellows’ hall on Thursday evening and, after transacting some routine business, elected the following officers to serve for one year:
President—J.A. Smith.
Vice-President—Ed Trowbridge.
Secretary—J.T. May.
Treasurer—R.H. Zimmerman
Directors—B.W. Burgin, W.H. Harris, C.S. Chatfield.

Aug 25, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS.
The Republican voters of Basalt precinct will hold their primary to select delegates to a county convention, next Wednesday, August 29th, at the residence of C.S. Chatfield, at 2 o’clock p.m.

Sep 1, 1900: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS.
Clark S. Chatfield and family arrived here from the Big Horn basin, Wyoming, on Friday, and intends to make his home at this place in the future.
Note: This is Clark, Jr., the son of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. and Mary Morrow.

Nov 7, 1900: Marriage of Arthur William Chatfield (age 22) & Ada B. Miller
(age 23) in Basalt, Pitkin Co., Colorado.
Note: Arthur is the 4th child of Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Nov 9, 1900: Aspen Tribune, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4)
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Miss Ada Miller of Chicago and Arthur Chatfield were united in marriage night before last at Basalt, the Methodist minister at that place officiating. Miss Miller is a niece to Mr. Harry Coffin, brakeman on the Aspen Basalt plug. Mr. Chatfield is son of C.S. Chatfield, the prominent Basalt merchant. He is at present night clerk at the Midland yards at Basalt.
Note: Arthur is the son of Clark Samuel and Mary (Morrow) Chatfield.

Jan 5, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Emma Pencilings.
The horse driven by Miss Chatfield ran away at this place Wednesday, throwing the Misses Chatfield and Bancroft out. Fortunately they escaped without injury.
Note: Miss Chatfield is one of Clark S. Chatfield’s daughters, either Mabel Chatfield (age 18) or Jacqueline (age 15).

Jan 12, 1901: Aspen Tribune, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
LOCAL NEWS
Go to Chatfield’s for Ben Davis apples.
If you want anything in the grocery line go to Chatfield’s.

Jan 26, Feb 9/6/23, Mar 8, Apr 13/27, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pgs 2/5):
UNDERTAKING
AND
EMBALMING.
D.E. DeMarais,
Aspen, Colo.
Our parlors are complete and strictly first-class.
All calls given prompt attention.
We have an embalmer from the Chicago
schools of embalming.
C.S. Chatfield, Resident Agt.

Feb 2, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL NEWS
A first-class line of groceries at Chatfield’s. Call and leave your orders.

Feb 2, 16, Apr 13, 20, 27, May 25, Jun 1, 15, Aug 10, 31, Sep 7, 21, 28, Oct 5, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
BASALT BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
C.S. CHATFIELD,
Dealer in Groceries, Meats, Hardware, Lumber, Hay and Grain..

Feb 9, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 5):
LOCAL
Get your oranges and lemons at Chatfield’s.
Go to Chatfield’s for all kinds of meats, at bed rock prices.
The place to buy bread stuff. Oats, wheat, bran and bailed hay is at Chatfield’s. Will not be undersold.

Feb 9, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado:
Mrs. Ora Shaw, of Buffalo, Wyoming, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Chatfield.

Feb 12, 1901: Aspen Tribune, Aspen, Pitkin Co., Colorado (pg 4):
LOCAL BRIEFS
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, of Basalt was an arrival on the Midland this morning.
Note: Mrs. C.S. Chatfield is Mary (Morrow) Chatfield (age 51)

circa 1901: Photo of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. and family

PHOTO left to right: Ora, Arthur w/hat in hand and wife Ada (Miller), Levi with hat at chest, Mabel, Clark Jr., mother Mary (Morrow) and father Clark Sr. The family is standing on the tracks of the Colorado Midland Railway.

Ora (Chatfield) Shaw (age 27), Arthur Chatfield (age 22), Ada (Miller) Chatfield (age 22), Levi Chatfield (age 11), Mabel Chatfield (age 18), Clark S. Chatfield, Jr. (age 24), Mary (Marrow) Chatfield (age 51), Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. (age 62)

Ora, married to Charles Elliott Shaw in 1898, is living in Big Horn Co., Wyoming, and was home for a visit
Clark Samuel, Jr. & Ida Hyatt married (Apr 7, 1899); live in Hyattville, Big Horn Co., Wyoming
Arthur & Ada B. Miller married Dec 7, 1900 and live in Basalt
Children not pictured:
Della married Elmer Sep 18, 1892; they live in Spring Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming
Willard died May 4, 1900 in Basalt
Jacquelin is about 15 years of age at this time
Margaret “Marjorie” is 8 years of age

Original photo:

The Colorado Midland Railway Company was incorporated in 1883 with a plan to build a standard-gauge railroad from Colorado Springs through Leadville and Aspen and on to Salt Lake City. Train service reached the Arkansas Valley in 1887. North-west of Leadville, the Midland faced the challenge of crossing the Continental Divide. A series of long switchbacks climbed to the Hagerman Tunnel at 11,500 feet. A massive trestle was also named for James Hagerman, the company’s president. The Midland struggled financially during its entire existence. The killing blow came during World War I when it was given a government contract for moving military men and supplies. The small railroad could not handle the additional traffic. The US Rail Administration pulled the Midland’s authorization to operate. The Colorado Midland finally made a profit in 1922 when they shut down and sold all assets.
Source: http://www.fourteenernet.com/things-to-do/the-colorado-midland-railway-company

Feb 23, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 5):
LOCAL
All kinds of meats, cabbage, and sweet spuds at Chatfield’s.

Feb 23, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado:
Mr. Shaw, a son-in-law of Mr. C.S. Chatfield, is visiting in Basalt. Mr. Shaw is a member of the Wyoming legislature.
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Chatfield visited with Mrs. Morrison last Wednesday.

Mar 2, 1901: Glenwood Post, Glenwood Springs, Garfield Co., Colorado (pg 8):
ITEMS FROM EMMA
On Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Chatfield gave a farewell party for their daughter, Mabel, and Mr. and Mrs. Shaw who are returning to Wyoming.
Note: Ora’s sister Mabel is age 18. On Dec 25, 1902, Mabel marries George Reuben Sawyer in Otter Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming.

Mar 6, 1901: Add. Evidence for Civil War Pension Application by C.S. Chatfield for I.W. Chatfield:
Act of July 14, 1862.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE IN APPLICATION FOR PENSION.
State of Colorado }
County of Arapahoe} ss:

On this 7th day of March, A.D. one thousand nine hundred and one personally appeared before me, Amos (?) a Notary Public in and for said County and State, Clark S. Chatfield who being duly sworn, upon his oath says: On the 19th of December, 1866, I arrived at Isaac W. Chatfield’s ranch in Fremont County, Colorado, where Florence now is, and remained at the ranch, residing about 150 or 200 yards from where Isaac W. Chatfield resided, until 1868, when my wife died and I took her body to Nebraska for burial and remained in Nebraska until about 1879, when I returned to Colorado, and have resided near him ever since. Upon my arrival at his ranch in 1866 was the first time I had seen him after either of us left the army. I then heard from him a full account of his army experiences, and his physical disabilities, because of the exposure and vicissitudes of that service. He complained of his kidneys and bladder, and I knew from his actions and words that he was suffering under such disabilities.

From 1870 to 1874 Isaac W. Chatfield lived near Denver, and I lived near Littleton, about two miles from his house, during which time we saw each other every few days. In about 1880 Isaac W. Chatfield went to Leadville and I went to Aspen and entered the mercantile business which called me to Leadville frequently for goods, at each of which occasions I saw him, generally remaining with him over night or longer. My visits to Leadville were as frequent as once or twice each month. About 1884, he came to Aspen, and I went upon my farm, where Emma now stands. He purchased the adjoining ranch, and while he remained in Aspen either I was at Aspen or he at Emma almost every week. About 1897 Isaac W. Chatfield removed to Denver where he has since resided; during which time I have seen him frequently, his interests in the White River country having taken him past my house, when and where he stoped as he passed. During all these times from 1866 up to the present he has been a sufferer from kidney and bladder troubles, and has doctored therefor, sometimes under the care of physicians and sometimes using patented medicines. I can not be mistaken in my knowledge that he has had these disabilities from 1866, as above stated, to this time.

He further declares that he has no interest, either direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
signed by C S Chatfield

Sworn to and subscribed before me, 6th day of March, A.D. 1901 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration @c.,
Note: Affidavit sworn by Clark Samuel Chatfield for his brother Isaac Willard Chatfield. However, his dates are off as from 1869 through 1879, Clark is living in Nebraska.

Mar 23, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co. Colorado (pg 5):
THIS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR C.S. CHATFIELD. WATCH IT NEXT WEEK.

Mar 30, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
For a first-class line of groceries call at Chatfield’s. Fresh meats and vegetables at low prices.
Live and let live is our motto.

Mar 30, Apr 13, 20, 27, May 11, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
UNLOAD YOUR WORRY
If you want something to eat call at Chatfield’s. He keeps the BEST MEATS in the market, FRESH VEGETABLES and FRUITS, and a fine line of GROCERIES. If you intend to build a home we can furnish you with first-class LUMBER at a reasonable price.
BASALT, COLO. C.S. CHATFIELD

Apr 6, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 5):
The Junior League will give an entertainment next Tuesday evening, at the residence of Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, at 7:30 o’clock. The proceeds will go towards purchasing a bed for the Deaconess’ hospital in Denver. Adults will be charged 25 cents; children under 15 years of age, 15 cents. Do not fail to attend and help along this worthy cause.

Apr 27, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 5):
The Junior league, under the efficient leadership of Miss Gertie Riggs, is doing splendid work. At the social at the home of Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, last Tuesday evening, they raised $12 to help furnish a bed for the Deaconess’ hospital in Denver.
The Junior league gave an entertainment last Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. C.S. Chatfield. A very large crowd was present, and everybody had an enjoyable time. Adults were charged 25 cents and children under fifteen years 15 cents. The net proceeds, which aggregated $12, will be used to buy a bed in the Deaconess hospital in Denver. Light refreshments were served during the evening.

May 11, 18, 25, Jun 1, 15, 22, Jul 6, 20, 29, Aug 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Sep 7, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pgs 3 or 5):
A C O N F I D E N T I A L T A L K !

Jun 9, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
An attachment was served on the Eureka restaurant by C.S. Chatfield last Monday.

Jun 15, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Master Ralph Harris attended a party at the home of Mrs. C.S. Chatfield Friday afternoon.

Jun 29, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL
An attachment was served on the Eureka restaurant by C.S. Chatfield last Monday.

Jul 6, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL
Clark S. Chatfield shipped some dressed veal to Leadville during the week.
A new car of flour at Chatfield’s. Will sell it cheaper than any one in the county.
Lumber $16 per thousand and Book Cliff coal $5.50 per ton at C.S. Chatfield’s.

Aug 1901: Clark S. Chatfield, Sr. sells his grocery business in Basalt.

Aug 24, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Pinger et al completed the inventory at Chatfield’s store yesterday afternoon, and immediately repaired to Emma to take an invoice of the stock at C.H. Mather’s at Emma. The deal will undoubtedly be consummated early next week.

Aug 31, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Messrs. Pinger and Robinson are about to close a deal whereby they acquire the grocery house of C.S. Chatfield and the C.H. Mather mercantile house at Emma. Mr. Pinger was formerly of the Pinger Grocery Company of Aspen, who sold out to J.R. Johns last spring. Mr. Robinson was an employee of the Morrel Hardware company of Aspen for several years. Both are energetic young men with good business qualities, and will, no doubt, make a success of their new venture. THE JOURNAL wishes them success.

Dec 14, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
** LOCAL **
Clark S. Chatfield, Jr., and J.F. Mallon will open their new meat market Monday, December 16, first door west of postoffice. They will handle meat both wholesale and retail. We predict for them an astonishing success.

Dec 16, 1901: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. and his future son-in-law, James Frederick Mallon, open Chatfield & Mallon’s meat market in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado.

Dec 21, 1901: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
LOCAL
Chatfield & Mallon’s meat market opened up last Tuesday noon and has had a rush of business since. They handle a well selected stock of meats and canned goods. There is no need of climbing the hill, good people; just step in at Chatfield & Mallon’s. They will treat you right and do it all the time. First door west of postoffice.
Chatfield & Mallon received a consignment of fresh oysters and Eastonville creamery butter this morning, which can be had at lowest prices.

Feb 8, 1902: Glenwood Post, Glenwood Springs, Garfield Co., Colorado (pg 8):
BASALT.
Those who attended the reception given Thursday evening by the Knights of Pythias and Rathborn Sisters in honor of Grand Chancellor Woodruff of Creede, were … James Mallon, … Clark Chatfield, … All reported a royal time.

Nov 9, 1902: Marriage of Jacqueline Chatfield (age 16) & James Frederick Mallon (age 29) in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado. Jacqueline is the 7th child of C.S Chatfield & Mary Morrow; James Mallon, the business partner of her father, is 13 years her senior.

Nov 8, 1902: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 3):
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield Sr. spent Thursday in Aspen doing some trading.

Dec 25, 1902, Marriage of Mabel Clair Chatfield (age 19) & George Reuben Sawyer (age 31) in Otter Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming. Her older sisters Della (married to their cousin Elmer Chatfield in 1893) and Ora (married to Charles Elliott Shaw in 1898) are residing in the nearby town of Cedar in the Big Horns.

Jan 17, 1903: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
LOCAL
James Mallon is circulating a petition for the appointment of C.S. Chatfield as water commissioner of this district.

Oct 17, 1903: Glenwood Post, Glenwood Springs, Garfield Co., Colorado (pg 5):
BASALT BUBBLES.
Mrs. Chas. Shaw departed for her home in Casper, Wyoming Sunday evening after spending the summer here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Chatfield.

May 1905: Clarks Samuel Chatfield, Sr., journeys to Princeton, Colusa Co., California to stay with his daughter and son-in-law, Jacquelin and James Mallon.

Aug 19, 1905: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, Sr., her daughter and son, Miss Marjorie and Levi, returned from Princeton, Calif., Wednesday. Mr. Chatfield will return later. Mrs. Chatfield and her children are glad to get home again and say there is no place like Basalt. So say them all and they all return sooner or later.

Sep 2, 1905: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, Sr., is ill at the home of her son Clark near Emma. Levi Chatfield is also sick, his aliment being malaria fever, contracted while in California.

Mar 6, 1906: Newspaper clipping, Colusa Co., California:
Mrs. C.S. Chatfield, accompanied by her son, Clark, arrived from Colorado Wednesday to be at the bedside of her husband, who is seriously ill in the Princeton home of his daughter, Mrs. J.F. Mallon.

Mar 6, 1906: Death of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. (age 67), in Princeton, Colusa Co., California of Bright’s disease and acute uremia (a toxic condition resulting from kidney disease in which there is retention in the bloodstream of waste products normally excreted in the urine). Clark was a resident of Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado, but had been staying for some months with his daughter, Jacquelin (Chatfield) Mallon.

There are a number of errors on the copy of Clarks’ death certificate (below are corrections):
Date of Birth: Jan 8, 1838
Age: 68 yrs, 2 mo, 15 days
Name of Father: Levi “T.” Chatfield
Birthplace of Father: Connecticut, not Vermont
Date of Death: Mar 6, 1906, not Feby 6
Cause of Death: Acute uremia

Mar 8, 1906: Colusa Daily Sun, Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
CLAY S. CHATFIELD PASSES AWAY
Clay S. Chatfield died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.F. Mallon, at Princeton on Tuesday, March 6th, after a short illness. The deceased had only been a resident of Princeton about ten months, but during his short stay endeared himself to a great number of people.
Deceased was a native of the east, aged 67 years.
The funeral will take place this Wednesday afternoon from the home of Mrs. Mallon, the Rev. Mr. Davidson officiating.
Note: Clark S. Chatfield; name mistakenly printed as Clay in the article.

Mar 9, 1906: Burial of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr., in Prinction, Colusa Co., California. The family had Clark buried in Princeton rather than having his body shipped back to his home in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado.

Mar 10, 1906: Basalt Journal, Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado (pg 1):
Death of C.S. Chatfield.
The friends of Mr. C.S. Chatfield were deeply saddened to learn of his death, which occurred at Princeton, Calif., on Tuesday of this week. On the Monday of last week a telegram was received that he was dangerously ill and his wife and son, Mr. Clark Chatfield, started immediately to go to him. From the brief message received it would appear that he was unconscious when they reached there and died without recognizing them. Mr. Chatfield’s illness was doubtless the result of a fall from his horse, which happened last fall. He has been in rather feeble health ever since then, until his case finally became alarming, resulting in his death.
He died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. Jas. Mallon. The funeral was held on Wednesday and it is understood that Mrs. Chatfield and Clark would start for Basalt immediately afterward, probably arriving here the first of the week. Levi and Marjory, who remained here, have the sympathy of many friends in their deep sorrow.

TWO BROTHERS & FRIENDS: A CHATFIELD HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
CLARK S. CHATFIELD
Clark S. Chatfield, born in Geauga County, Ohio and the brother of Isaac Willard, married Mary E. __ [b.? -Sep 1841] sometime in 1865 in Mason County, Illinois. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Nebraska, where he followed his vocation as farmer until about 1879, at which time he moved to Arapahoe County, Colorado. Not long afterward, he moved to the town of Aspen, Pitkin County where he established, in 1882, a wholesale/retail business. In Sep of 1885 his brother, Isaac joined him as a partner in the firm, and it became known as the Chatfield Brothers Grocery. By January of 1886, Clark seems to have given up the grocery business and returned full time to his vocation as a farmer, for his brother was sole owner of the firm when it was sold on the 30th of that month. Following the mysterious death of his daughter, Ida, Clark Chatfield talked of moving to California, but the 1900 Colorado Census reveals that he had moved only as far as Basalt, just 18 miles from Aspen, where he continued his vocation as farmer. Further record of him has not been uncovered, with the exception of the names, approximate birthdates, and birthplaces of his ten known children:

1. Ida Chatfield, born in Nebraska, died probably on Jun 4, 1886, the day she disappeared after visiting with her Uncle Isaac Chatfield. Her body was found by two fishermen on Aug 6th in the waters of the Roaring Fork River. Although contemporary newspapers stated that she was a possible victim of drowning, there was never an explanation as to how it could have happened, and her father refused to accept the theory. An interesting sidelight in the short history of Ida’s life is the little known fact she taught school during the winter of 1885-86 at her cousin Elmer’s “Interval House” at Emma.
(note: Ida is the daughter of C.S. Chatfield and Louisa Tankersley)
2. Bell Chatfield, born in Nebraska, is one member of this family of whom further record has not been uncovered. It is known that she was still living at home at the time of the 1885 Colorado Census. (note: this is Della, oldest child of C.S. Chatfield and Mary Morrow)
3. George Chatfield, born in Nebraska, is another member of this family of whom further record is elusive. He is listed on the 1885 Colorado Census, but not the 1900, at which time he would have been old enough to be a head of household. (note: George is Ora, and not a he, but a she).
4. Clark Chatfield, born in Nebraska, is another member of this family of whom further record has not been located. Like his brother, George, he is listed on the 1885 Census, but not the 1900 when he was old enough to be a head of household. (note: Clark is married to Ida Tankersley in 1890. Again, there is no brother George—tis Ora)
5. Arthur Chatfield, born in Nebraska, married, on Nov 7, 1900, Ada B. Miller of Basalt. No other information is available.
6. Willard Chatfield, born probably, though not certainly, in Arapahoe County, Colorado, was not listed on the 1900 Colorado Census, giving rise to the theory he had died between 1885 and 1900 and may be the Willard James Chatfield accredited to Isaac. (note: Willard is Clark Samuel’s son—not Isaac’s)
7. Mabel Chatfield, born at Aspen, Colorado, was still unmarried in November of 1902, when she witnessed the wedding of her younger sister, Jacqueline, and after which date further record of her has not been discovered.
8. Jacqueline Chatfield, born at Aspen, married, on Nov 9, 1902, James F. Mallon of Basalt. Further record of her is obscure.
9. Levi and 10. Margaret Chatfield, both born probably, though not certainly, at Basalt, are two other members of this family of whom we have no further record.
Source: Two Brothers and Friends, Volume IV, Copyright 1990 by Harry E. Chatfield and Chatfield Western Publications.
Box 5703, Security, Colorado, 80931

Feb 9, 1908: Death of Ida Ernestine (Hyatt) Chatfield (age 27), 1st wife of C.S. Chatfield, Jr. Their home is in Basalt, however, Ida dies from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in El Paso Co., Colorado. She is buried in Basalt, Eagle Co., Colorado. Her son Harold is seven, her daughter Charlotte is a month short of her fourth birthday, and the youngest, Norman, is not yet two.

1909: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. is hired as an engineer on the Midland Railroad in Basalt

Apr 1, 1910: Federal Census for Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado: (Marjorie, daughter of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Chatfield, Marjory: Lodger, age 16, single, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Note: Marjorie is living with the Edward Trowbridge family of six. He is a Railroad Engineer in Leadville.

Apr 17, 1910: Federal Censusfor Hemet Township, Riverside Co., California: (Mable, daughter of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Sawyer, George R.: Head, age 37, Married 1 for 7 years, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio; farmer on general farm
Mable C.: Wife, age 26, Married 1 for 7 years, 1 child born, 1 child living, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Missouri
Ira R: Son, age 3, born California, father born Ohio, mother born Colorado
Ira B.: Father, age 69, born Ohio, father born Vermont, mother born Kentucky, own income

Apr 21, 1910: Federal Census for 5th Township, Glenn Co., California: (Jacquelin, daughter of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Mallon, James F.: head, age 36, married 8 years, born Kansas, father born Missouri, mother born Scotland, general farmer, Sacramento Valley Irr. Co.
Jacqueline: wife, age 24, married 8 years, number of children born 3, number of children living 3, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Missouri
Devere J.: son, age 5, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Marjory: daughter, age 3, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Neva: daughter, age ?, born California, (note: age 17 mo) father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Note: 15 other people reside at the same address, a servant, a cook; the others work for Sac. Irr. Co.

Apr 26, 1910: Federal Census for Basin Town, Big Horn Co., Wyoming: (Ora, daughter of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Shaw, Charles E.: head, age 50, married 11 years, born Iowa, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, stockman
Ora C.: wife, age 35, married 11 years, number of children born 1, number of children living 1, born Nebraska, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio, County Department, Treasurer
Elliott C.: son, age 10, born Wyoming, father born Iowa, mother born Nebraska

May 3, 1910: Federal Census for Cardiff, Garfield Co., Colorado: (son of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Chatfield, C.S.: Head, age 35, Widow, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois; Engineer locomotive
Charlotte: Daughter, age 6, born Colorado, father born Neb, mother born Texas
Mary E.: Mother, age 62, Widow, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois (Mary Elizabeth [Morrow] Chatfield)

May 3, 1910: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. is living in Cardiff, Garfield Co., Colorado with his daughter Charlotte and his mother Mary Elizabeth (Morrow) Chatfield.

May 4, 1910: Arthur W. Chatfield (son of C.S. Chatfield and Mary Elizabeth Morrow) is living with his wife Ada and children Iris and Arthur in Emma, Pitkin County, Colorado.

May 4, 1910: Federal Census for Emma, Pitkin Co., Colorado: (son of Clark & Mary Chatfield)
Chatfield, Arthur W.: Head, age 32, Married 1 for 9 years, born Nebraska, father born Connecticut, mother born Missouri; farmer
Ada B.: Wife, age 32, Married 1 for 9 years, 2 children born 2 children living, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born New York
Iris M.: Daughter, age 8, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Illinois
Arthur Leslie: son, age 5, born Wyoming, father born Nebraska, mother born Illinois

May 9, 1910: Federal Census for Spring Creek, Big Horn Co., Wyoming: (son of Isaac & Eliza Chatfield)
Chatfield, Elmer E.: Head, age 47, married 1 for 17 years, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois, occupation stock grower on range
Della: wife, age 36, married 1 for 17 years, 5 children born, 5 living, born Nebraska, father born Illinois, mother born Missouri
Helen L.: daughter, age 16, born Colorado, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Marion H.: daughter, age 14, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Sevilla M.: daughter, age 11, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Audrey E.: daughter, age 9, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Constance C.: daughter, age 4, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska

Mar 21, 1911: Marriage of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. (age 34) & Madge Rosa (age 18) in Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado, his second marriage.

May 24, 1915: Marriage of Margaret Emma “Marjorie” Chatfield (age 21) & Thomas Mitchell “Tom” Tuck (age 35), Lassen Co., California, his second marriage.

Oct 31, 1919: Death of Della Chatfield (age 47), wife of Elmer and 1st child of Clark S. Chatfield & Mary Elizabeth Morrow in Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming; of cancer.

Nov 3, 1919: Burial of Della Chatfield in Riverview Memorial Gardens in Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming. Her birth and death years are incorrect on her headstone (born 1872, died 1919).

Nov 6, 1919: Worland Grit, Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming:
Della B. Chatfield, wife of Elmer E Chatfield a well known stockman and farmer of this section died at their home north of the City last Friday evening. She had just recently returned from the hospital at Rochester, Minn. And the community held hope the end was not so near. Besides her husband she leaves five daughters, Helen, Marion, Sevilla, Audrey and Babe all residing at home. Funeral services were held at the home last Monday afternoon, the services being in charge of the Rev. William Gorst.

Nov 15, 1919: Colusa Herald, Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
PRINCETON
Mrs. Mary Chatfield and Arthur Chatfield of Maxwell are in Princeton today.

Jan 9, 1920: Federal Census for Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California:
Shaw, Ora C: head, age 39, married, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois, no occupation
Note: Ora is actually age 46.

Jan 16, 1920: Federal Census for Marine Hospital, San Francisco, California:
Chatfield, Lee T.: age 30, single, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Missouri, salesman for an oil company, patient
Note: Levi Tomlinson Chatfield

Jan 24-26, 1920: Federal Census for Washakie Co., Wyoming:
Chatfield, Elmer E.: Head, age 56, widow, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Illinois, farmer
Helen L.: daughter, age 25, born Colorado, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Marion H.: daughter, age 23, born Colorado, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Sevilla M.: daughter, age 21, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Audrey E.: daughter, age 19, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska
Constance C.: daughter, age 15, born Wyoming, father born Colorado, mother born Nebraska

Jan 25, 1920: Federal Census for Oakland Township, Alameda Co., California:
Mallan, James: head, age 45, married, born Kansas, father born Kansas, (Mallon) mother born Kansas, Promoter for irrigation
Jacquelin: wife, age 33, married, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Missouri
De Vere: son, age 15, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado (James)
Marjorie: daughter, age 13, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Neva: daughter, age 11, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Chatfield, Mary: mother-in-law, age 70, widowed, born Illinois, father born Nebraska, mother born Nebraska
Chatfield, Leslie: nephew, age 15, born Wyoming, father born Nebraska, mother born Illinois
Note: Mother-in-law Mary Elizabeth (Morrow) Chatfield. Her husband Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. died in 1906.
Leslie Chatfield is the 2nd child of Arthur William Chatfield and Ada B. Miller, born Jul 1, 1904 in Tensleep.

Feb 4 & 5, 1920: Federal Census for Hemet Township, Riverside Co., California:
Sawyer, George R.: Head, age 47, Married, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, farm, fruit grower
Mabel: Wife, age 36, Married, born Colorado, father born Colorado, mother born Colorado
Ira R.: Son, age 13, born California, father born Ohio, mother born Colorado

Photo circa Spring of 1920: standing are Marjorie (Chatfield) Tuck (age 26), Marjorie and Della’s mother Mary Elizabeth (Morrow) Chatfield (age 69), Marjorie’s cousin Elmer Chatfield (age 56, smoking pipe) and Isaac W. Chatfield’s 2nd wife Sarah (Wisenor) Chatfield (age 61). Front row: Tom Tuck (husband of Marjorie, age 41, kneeling), and Jack Tuck (Marjorie & Tom’s son, 3 yrs, 3 mos, born Dec 1916); kneeling at right is Marjorie’s uncle and Elmer’s father, Isaac W. Chatfield (age 83). At this time the Tucks live in Princeton, Colusa Co., California. Mary (Morrow) Chatfield lives in Oakland, Alameda Co., California, Isaac and Sarah live in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California, and Elmer lives in Worland, Washakie Co., Wyoming. Assuming this photo was taken in California and as Isaac was an orchardist, this may have been on his San Jose property. Elmer may have gone to California some months after the death of his wife Della to visit family. Ages based on the guess that this photo was taken in 1920.

Jun 12, 1920: Federal Census for Wichita Falls, Wichita Co., Texas:
Tuck, Tom: Head, married, age 40, born Texas, father born Missouri, mother born Missouri, bookkeeper for construction company
Marjorie: wife, married, age 26, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois
Jack: son, age 3, born, California, father born Texas, mother born Colorado
Stanley: son, age 1, born California, father born Texas, mother born Colorado

Apr 3, 1922: Death of Mary Elizabeth (Morrow) Chatfield (age 72), second wife of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr., at the home of her daughter on Lawton Street in Oakland, Alameda Co., California; of chronic nephritis.

Apr 4, 1922: Burial of Mary Chatfield in the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda Co., California. According to census and other records, Mary was born in 1850, so her headstone may be carved in error.

Apr 6, 1922: Colusa Herald, Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
Death of Mrs. Chatfield
Mrs. Chatfield, mother of Lee Chatfield of Princeton and Mrs. J.F. Mallon of Colusa and Oakland, died at her Oakland home Monday morning of complications following an attack of flu. She was about 75 years old. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon in Oakland. Mrs. Chatfield was formerly a resident of Princeton where she was much loved by many friends for her kindly virtues and great sympathy and friendliness for everyone.

Apr 7, 1922: Colusa Daily Sun, Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
MRS. CHATFIELD AT REST.
Funeral services for Mrs. Chatfield, mother of Lee Chatfield of Princeton and Mrs. J.F. Mallon of Oakland, were held in Oakland on Tuesday afternoon. She passed away early Monday morning at the age of 75 years. She formerly resided in where she was widely acquainted and known for her sympathetic nature and willingness to assist others in time of trouble.

Apr 11, 1922: Colusa Herald, Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
PRINCETON
Lee Chatfield returned from Oakland yesterday where he was called by the illness of his mother, Mrs. Mary Chatfield, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Mallon, in Oakland. Mrs. Chatfield was an earnest Christian woman, greatly loved in this community where she lived for many years.

As They Were Told:
Mary Elizabeth Morrow (wife of Clark Samuel Chatfield Sr.) was a Christian Scientist and a practicing midwife, riding on horseback in rural Wyoming to deliver the babies, often in severe weather, trading her birthing services for chickens. At times she was paid $5. —Kathy Fabris, great-granddaughter-in-law of Mary Morrow

Feb 3, 1923: Marriage of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield (abt age 34) & Martha W. Banning (abt age 29) in Berkeley, Alameda Co., California.

Jan 7, 1930: Federal Census for Maxwell Township, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Arthur: Head, age 51, age 22 when married, born Nebraska, father born Illinois, (Arthur Sr.) mother born Kansas; foreman, general farming
Ada: Wife, age 51, age 22 when married, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born New York
Leroy: son, age 15, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Illinois
Yvonne: granddaughter, age 10, born California, father born United States, mother born Colorado
Note: Arthur William Chatfield

Apr 4, 1930: Federal Census for Corning Township, Tehama Co., California:
Mallon, James F.: head, age 56, married, age 29 at 1st marriage, born Kansas, father born Missouri, mother born Kansas, farmer on a general farm
Jacquelin C.: wife, age 44, married, age 17 at 1st marriage, born Colorado, father born Indiana, mother born Missouri
James D.: son, age 25, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado (De Vere)
Neva H.: daughter, age 22, born California, father born Kansas, mother born Colorado
Note: Jacquelin Chatfield

Apr 8, 1930: Federal Census for Los Angeles City, Los Angeles Co., California:
Shaw, Ora C.: lodger, age 56, divorced, born Nebraska, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio, clerk in gift shop
Note: Ora Chatfield; Ora is living at the Finkle Arms Apartments or the Empire Hotel in Los Angeles.

Apr 9, 1930: Federal Census for Colusa Township, Princeton Precinct, Butte Co., Calif:
Chatfield, Lee: head of house, rents $30 per mo, age 39, married at age 32, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Colorado, merchant in service station, veteran of WWI
Martha: wife, age 35, married at age 28, born California, father born Ohio, mother born California, bank clerk in bank
Note: Levi Tomlinson “Lee” Chatfield; errors on birthplaces of Lee’s parents

Apr 9 & 10, 1930: Federal Census for Hemet Township, Riverside Co., California:
Sawyer, George R.: Head, age 58, Married, at age 31, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Pennsylvania; farmer, fruit farm
Mabel C.: Wife, age 46, Married, at age 19, born Colorado, father born Illinois, mother born Missouri
Note: Mabel Chatfield

Apr 9-11, 1930: Federal Census for Williams, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Clark S.: head, age 53, married, owns, value of Real Estate $1,000, born Nebraska, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio, farmer, 56 animals
Madge: wife, age 37, married, immigrated 1900, naturalized 1903, born Italy, father born Italy, mother born Italy
Lillian: daughter, age 17, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Lola: daughter, age 15, born Colorado, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Norma: daughter, age 8, born California, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Aurmay: daughter, age 6, born California, father born Nebraska, mother born Italy
Note: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr.

Apr 14, 1930: Federal Census for Oakland, Alameda Co., California:
Tuck, Marjorie: Head, age 36, rents $52 month, divorced, age at 1st marriage 21, born Colorado, father born Ohio, mother born Illinois, teacher in public school
Jack: son, age 13, born, California, father born Texas, mother born Colorado

Jul 24, 1936: Death of Ora Lovina (Chatfield) Shaw (age 63), in Los Angeles Co., California.
Note: Ora is the 2nd child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Apr 4, 1940: Federal Census for Corning, Tehama Co., California:
James D: male, white single, head, age 35, born California, farmer, owned, college 5th year
Jacquelin C: female, white, married, age 54, born Colorado, mother, high school 2nd year
Mallon, James F: male, white, married, father, age 66, married, born Kansas, farmer working on own account, college 2nd year
Note: Jacquelin Chatfield (record incorrectly transcribed as Mollon)

Apr 5, 1940: Federal Census for Hemet Township, Riverside Co., California:
Sawyer, George R.: male, white, head, age 68, born Ohio, working on own account, elementary school 7th grade
Mabel C: female, white, married, wife, age 57, born Colorado, high school 1 year
Note: Mabel Chatfield

Apr 8, 1940: Federal Census for Berkeley, Alameda Co., California:
Tuck, Marjorie: female, white, divorced, head, born abt 1894, age 46, rents, born Colorado, elocution teacher in elementary public school, college 3rd year completed
John C: male, white, single, son, age 23, born abt 1917, California, college, 3rd year completed, waiter

Apr 13, 1940: Federal Census for Williams, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Clark: male, white, head, age 63, married, owns, born Nebraska, manager, high school 2nd year
Madge: female, white, married, wife, age 48, naturalized citizen, born Italy, high school 2nd year
Norma: female, white, single, daughter, age 18, born California, student, college, high school 4th year
Anna May: female, white, single, daughter, age 18, born California (Aura May), student, high school 2nd year
Clark: male, white, single, son, age 8, born California, elementary school 2nd grade
Note: Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr.

May 2, 1940: Federal Census for Colusa, Colusa Co., California:
Chatfield, Art: male, white, married, head, age 62, born Nebraska, laborer, rents, high school 4th year
Ada: female, white, married, wife, age 62, born Illinois, elementary school 8th grade

Nov 22, 1944: Death of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Jr. (age 68), in Colusa, Colusa Co., California; of edema.
Note: Clark is the 3rd child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Sep 6, 1949: Death of Levi Tomlinson “Lee” Chatfield (age 60), in Oakland, Alameda Co., California.
Note: Lee is the 8th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Mar 17, 1959: Death of Arthur William “Art” Chatfield (age 80) of a heart attack, in San Rafael, Marin Co., California.
Note: Arthur is the 4th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Mar 5, 1960: Death of Mabel Claire (Chatfield) Sawyer (age 76), in Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co., California.
Note: Mabel is the 6th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Dec 7, 1964: Death of Jacquelin (Chatfield) Mallon (age 78), in Oakland, Alameda Co., California; of a stroke.
Note: Jacquelin is the 7th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Dec 1, 1983: Death of Margaret Emma “Marjorie” (Chatfield) Tuck (age 90), Oakland, Alameda Co., California; of pneumonia and dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
Note: Marjorie is the 9th child of Clark Samuel Chatfield, Sr. & Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Clark Samual Chatfield photos:

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Family of Mary Elizabeth “Mollie” Morrow
Timeline and Records

Allen Thomas Morrow
Son of John A. Morrow & Elizabeth Mary Pitts
Born: abt 1783, Salisbury, Rowan Co., North Carolina
Died: 1854 (abt age 70), Mason City, Mason Co., Illinois
Buried: unknown
Married: Jan 22, 1823, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Robinson, Rowan Co., North Carolina
Four children: Arthur Morrow, Elizabeth Mahala Morrow, William Daniel Morrow, Rebecca Jane Morrow

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Robinson
Daughter of unknown
Born: 1794, North Carolina
Died: 1853 (abt age 59), Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Buried: unknown
Married: Jan 22, 1823, Allen Thomas Morrow, Rowan Co., North Carolina
Four children: Arthur Morrow, Elizabeth Mahala Morrow, William Daniel Morrow, Rebecca Jane Morrow

1. Arthur Morrow
Born: abt 1830, North Carolina
Died: Aug 15, 1854 (abt age 24), Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Buried: unknown (probably Mason Co., Illinois)
Married: Aug 14, 1849, Margaret Mary Gaines, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
One child: Mary Elizabeth Morrow

2. Elizabeth Mahala Morrow (twin)
Born: Jun 21, 1836, White Hall, Greene Co., Illinois
Died: Mar 4, 1919 (age 82), Blunt, Hughes Co., South Dakota
Buried: Sterling Cemetery in Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Married: Oct 5, 1858, Thomas E. McIlravy, Beardstown, Cass Co., Illinois
Eight children: Mary Louisa McIlravy, John Allen McIlravy, William Thomas McIlravy, Rebecca Eoline McIlravy, Charles Alexander McIlravy, Eliza Jane McIlravy, Margaret “Maggie” McIlravy, Franklin Dewitt “Frank” McIlravy

3. William Daniel Morrow (twin)
Born: Jun 21, 1836, White Hall, Greene Co., Illinois
Died: Jun 1916 (age 80), Hamburg, Fremont Co., Iowa
Buried: Mount Olive Cemetery in Hamburg, Fremont Co., Iowa
Married: Oct 5, 1866, Elizabeth Jane “Lizzie” Allen, Greene Co., Illinois
Six children: Lillian Ann Morrow, Edna “Edny” Morrow, Jesse Thomas Morrow, Naomi Morrow, Ruth Morrow, George Washington Morrow

4. Rebecca Jane Morrow
Born: Oct 6, 1838, White Hall, Greene Co., Illinois
Died: Mar 23, 1905 (age 66), Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois
Buried: Waverly East Cemetery in Waverly, Morgan Co., Illinois
Married: Dec 12, 1858, Jesse Law Allen, Jr., Greene Co., Illinois
Three children: Minerva Ellen “Minnie” Allen, Mary Elizabeth Allen, Franklin DeWitt “Frank” Allen

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Arthur Morrow
1st child of Allen Thomas Morrow & Elizabeth Robinson
Born: abt 1830, North Carolina
Died: bef 1854 (abt age 24), Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Buried: unkn, probably in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Married: Aug 14, 1849, Margarette/Margaret Mary Gaines, Bath, Mason Co. Illinois
One child: Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Margarette/Margaret Mary Gaines
Daughter of William B. Gaines & Mary “Polly” Callahan
Born: Oct 28, 1830, Beardstown, Cass Co., Illinois
Died: May 7, 1904 (age 73), Smith Co., Kansas
Buried: Meade Cemetery in Reamsville, Smith Co., Kansas
Married (1): Aug 14, 1849, Arthur Morrow, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
One child: Mary Elizabeth Morrow

Married (2): Nov 1, 1854, William Harvey Jones, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Son of William Jones & Nancy Magdelene Rosenbarger
Born: Sep 20, 1830, Brown Co., Ohio
Died: Jan 26, 1915 (age 84), Athol, Smith Co., Kansas
Buried: Meade Cemetery in Reamsville, Smith Co., Kansas
Five children of William Harvey Jones & Margaret/Margarette Mary Gaines: Lilly Jane Jones, LeRoy H. Jones, Nancy Magdeline Jones, Frances Isabel Jones, John William Jones

Child of Arthur Morrow & Margarette Mary Gaines:

1. Mary Elizabeth Morrow
Only child of Arthur Morrow & Margarette Mary Gaines
Born: Sep 25, 1850, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Died: Apr 3, 1922 (age 71), Oakland, Alameda Co., California; chronic nephritis
Buried: Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda Co., California
Married: Mar 10, 1869, Clark Samuel “C.S.” Chatfield, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Ten children: infant girl, Della Chatfield, Ora L. Chatfield, Clark Samuel Chatfield Jr., Arthur William Chatfield, Willard James Chatfield, Mabel Clair Chatfield, Jacquelin Chatfield, Levi “Lee” Tomlinson Chatfield, Margaret “Marjorie” Emma Chatfield

Five children of Margarette Mary (Gaines) Morrow & William Harvey Jones:

1. Lilly/Lillie Jane Jones
Born: Nov 15, 1855, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois
Died: 1936 (abt age 80), California (???)
Buried: unkn
Married: abt 1876, Mr. Williams, Mason Co., Illinois (???)
Marriage record for a Lillie Jones & J. Jefferson Williams, Jun 28, 1880, Clark County, Illinois (???)

2. LeRoy Henry Jones
Born: Feb 14, 1858, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Died: Feb 2, 1930 (age 71), Kensington, Smith Co., Kansas
Buried: Meade Cemetery in Reamsville, Smith Co., Kansas
Married: Sep 19, 1880, Cora Douglass Cannon, Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Six children: Dottie Udella Jones, Scott Harvey Jones, Nellie Estella Jones, Robert Wayne Jones, Leroy Smith “Roy” Jones, Bluford Adrin Jones

3. Nancy Magdeline “Maggie” Jones
Born: Jun 15, 1860, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Died: Oct 11, 1942 (age 82), Athol, Smith Co., Kansas
Buried: Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Reamsville, Smith Co., Kansas
Married (1): Mar 21, 1880, Charles W. Stewart, Johnson Co., Nebraska
One child: Ellie B. Stewart
Married (2): 1885, George Haun, Smith Co., Kansas
Six children: Aloma Lucinda “Loma” Haun, Lillian/Della Haun, Agnes Rachel Haun, Martha M. Haun, Harvey Henry “Harry” Haun, Fay Haun

4. Frances Isabell “Belle” Jones
Born: Jan 7, 1863, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Died: Jul 4, 1943 (age 80), Cook, Johnson Co. Nebraska
Buried: Tecumseh Cemetery in Tecumseh, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Married: Nov 14, 1880, Benson Goldsbarry Bomberger, Cook, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Twelve children: Florence Evelyn Bomberger, Charles Henry Bomberger, Mabel Rose Bomberger, Lucy Bomberger, Benson Goldsbarry Bomberger Jr., Wilmer Michael Bomberger, Peter Harvey Bomberger, Nellie Edna Bomberger, Andrew Roy Bomberger, Della Elaine Bomberger, Irene Bomberger, Garnet Lavern Bomberger

5. John William Jones
Born: Nov 3, 1865, Sonora, Atchison Co., Missouri
Died: May 14, 1951 (age 85), Concordia, Cloud Co., Kansas
Buried: Meade Cemetery in Reamsville, Smith Co., Kansas
Married: Jan 4, 1889, Lydia Agnes Spegal, Tyner, Smith Co., Kansas
Five children: Lloyd Malcolm Jones, Andrew Harvey Jones, Lela B. Jones, John Allen Jones, William Marion Jones

Note: Smith County, Kansas, borders Webster and Franklin Counties, Nebraska

Photo of Mary Morrow’s father’s siblings:
Elizabeth Mahala (Morrow) McIlravy (twin)
Born: Jun 21, 1836
Died: Mar 4, 1857
William Daniel Morrow (twin)
Born: Jun 21, 1836
Died: Apr 15, 1908
Rebecca Jane (Morrow) Allen
Born: Oct 6, 1838
Died: Apr 15, 1908

Arthur Morrow, the eldest sibling and father of Mary Morrow, died before 1854

Above cabinet card photo by M.F. Phillips, Hamburg, Fremont Co., Iowa

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William Daniel “W.D.” Morrow: W.D. Morrow, farmer, section 10, was born in Greene County, Illinois, June 21, 1836, and was the youngest son of Allen and Lizzie (Robertson) Morrow. His father was born in 1783, and died in 1854. His mother, who was born in 1794, died in 1853. They had settled in Greene County, Illinois, in 1833. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days, and was educated in his native county. October 15, 1866, he married Miss Lizzie Allen, a native of Greene County, Illinois, born March 11, 1841. When five years old she moved to Mason County, Illinois, where she was raised. Upon the death of her father she went to Cass County, Illinois, where she was married. In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Morrow came to Atchison County, Missouri, and settled where they now reside. Their family consists of five children living: Edna, Jesse, Naomi, Ruth and George W. Lillian Ann is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow are both church members.
Source: History of Holt & Atchison Counties, Missouri, St. Joseph, Missouri, National Hist. Company, 1882

Oct 28, 1850: Federal Census for Mason Co., Illinois:
Allen Morrell: age 66, male, Farmer, North Carolina
Elizabeth: age 56, female, North Carolina
Mahala: age 14, female, Illinois
William D.: age 14, male, Illinois
Rebecca: age 12, female, Illinois
Note: census record transcribed Morrow as Mowell and Morrell
House # 106

Oct 28, 1850: Federal Census for Mason Co., Illinois:
Arthur Mowell: age 20, male, Farmer, North Carolina (oldest child of above Allen & Elizabeth Morrow)
Maryann M.: age 20, female, Illinois
Mary E.: female, age one month, Illinois (Mary Elizabeth Morrow)
Note: census record transcribed Morrow as Mowell and Morrell; Arthur is living next door to his parents and siblings
House # 107

Aug 15, 1854: Death of Arthur Morrow (abt age 24), father of infant Mary Elizabeth Morrow, in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois

Nov 1, 1854: Marriage of Margarette M. (Gaines) Morrow & William Harvey Jones in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois

Margarette’s parents, William B. Gaines and his wife, move to Atchison Co., Missouri before 1860 and the Harvey Jones family accompany them.

Jul 10, 1860: Federal Census for Nishnabotna Township, Atchison Co., Missouri:
Jones, Harvey: age 29, Farmer, born Ohio (William Harvey Jones)
Margarett: age 29, born Illinois (1st wife of Arthur Morrow, nee Gaines, mother of Mary Morrow)
Mary: age 9 (Mary Elizabeth Morrow)
Lilly J.: age 4
Leroy: age 2
Nancy: age 1 month

Mar 10, 1869, Marriage of Clark Samuel Chatfield (age 30) & Mary Elizabeth Morrow (age 18), the daughter of Arthur Morrow and Margarette (Gaines) Morrow Jones, in Sonora, Atchison Co,, Missouri.

Jul 14, 1870: Federal Census for Spring Creek, Johnson Co., Nebraska:
Jones, Harvey: age 35, Farmer, Value of Real Estate $400, Value of personal estate $100, born Ohio
Margreta: Keeping House, age 35, born Illinois (mother of Mary Morrow)
Lilley: age 14, at school, born Illinois
Leroy: age 12, at school, born Missouri
Nancy: age 10, at school, born Missouri
Isabell: age 8, at school, born Missouri
John: age 4, born Missouri

Jul 1, 1880: Federal Census for Helena, Johnson Co., Nebraska:
Jones, W.H.: age 49, Farmer, born Ohio, father born Virginia, mother born Virginia (William Harvey Jones)
Margret M.: age 49, Wife, keeping house, born Illinois, father born Kentucky, mother born South Carolina (mother of Mary Morrow)
Esebel: age 17, Daughter, single, at home, born Missouri, father born Ohio, mother born Virginia
John W.: age 14, Son, single, Farmer, born Missouri, father born Ohio, mother born Virginia

May 7, 1904: Death of Margarette Mary (Gaines) Morrow Jones, in Smith Co., Kansas

Obituary: Margarette Jones died about 4 o’clock Saturday, May 7, 1904, aged 73 years, 6 months, and 9 days, and was borne to her last resting place, Monday, May 9, followed by the bereaved husband and family and many relatives and friends. She was born in Cass County, Illinois, and was married to Harvey Jones on October 20, 1854. They moved to Kansas in 1881 and settled in Pleasant township, their present home. At the age of sixteen she joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was a member of Highland United Brethren Church at the time of her death.

The place left vacant in the home, in the community and in the Church can never be filled. “Aunt Mary” will be missed. The home has been a refuge for any seeking help or sympathy. So upright has been her life and so loveable her disposition that even the slandering tongue has been silenced. No one could think evil of “Aunt Mary” much less to speak it. She set us an example that is worthy, and though death she speaketh. She was one of those who carry “oil in their lamps” and though the coming of the Bridegroom seemed unexpected she was prepared and has gone in to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Buried: Margarette is buried in the Meade Cemetery in Reamsville, Mead Co., Kansas with her 2nd husband, William Harvey Jones, who died in 1915.

Headstone reads: MARGARET WIFE OF W.H. JONES DIED MAY 7, 1904 AGED 73 Y’s. 6 M’s. 30 D’s.

Jan 26, 1915: Death of William Harvey Jones (age 84, in Athol, Smith Co., Kansas

Photo, circa 1897, is of William’s son, Leroy Henry Jones, and daughter, Dottie (Jones) Plumb; William Harvey Jones is at right with LeRoy’s infant son, Lee Roy Smith Jones.

Note: The cemetery and headstones pictures are from Find A Grave and are the property of those who photographed them.

2019. Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau.