Tintypes, Cartes de Visite (CdV), Cabinet Cards TINTYPE The advantages of the tintype were threefold: it created an unbreakable, durable, photographic image supported on an iron plate, which could be carried into hazardous conditions such as battle without breaking like the fragile daguerreotype; … [Read more...]
Levi Chatfield & Lovina Mastick
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Levi Tomlinson Chatfield Descends from Isaac, Joel, Elnathan, Ebenezer, John, George 4th of 11 children of Isaac Chatfield and Lucy Tomlinson Born: Aug 28, 1813, Seymour (at Skokorat), New Haven, Connecticut Died: Nov 11, 1848 (age 35), Middlefield, Geauga Co., … [Read more...]
Isaac Chatfield & Lucy Tomlinson
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Isaac Chatfield Descends from Joel, Elnathan, Ebenezer, John, George Chatfield 1st of 7 children of Joel Chatfield & Ruth Stoddard Born: Jan 15, 1787, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Died: Aug 1, 1861 (age 74), North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio Buried: Ridgeville Cemetery … [Read more...]
Chatfield Heritage
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY OUR CHATFIELD HERITAGE Chatfield: English Literal translation: Field of the wildcat Emigrated: 1639, from North Mundham, The County of Sussex, England on the ship St. John Settled: In Guilford, Connecticut in Rev. Henry Whitfield’s Company Religion: Church of … [Read more...]
Josiah Appleton Small
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Josiah Appleton Small 2nd of 5 sons of Henry Capen Small & Emma Appleton Chase Occupation: Bookstore owner, Aspen Postmaster, Wood’s Investment Co., commercial banker Born: Sep 15, 1855, Bangor, Penobscot Co., Maine Died: Aug 31, 1940 (age 84), Superior, Pinal Co., … [Read more...]
Lineages
(Listen to Audio) I am. I am from Leinen and Nigon, from Chamberlin and Hoy. I am from Clemens and Chatfield, from Surdam, Sumner, Smith, Shade, Mastick, and Tomlinson too. From Matthew, Isaac, Finley, and Charles. From Barbara, Eliza, Emily, and Nellie. I am from soldiers who fought for the Union … [Read more...]
Emily and Those Hoy Boys
As rivers cut canyons through Rockies to bays, the Hoys traveled westward in pioneer days. They fought for the Union (Frank, wounded in battle), then homesteaded Brown's Hole where they branded their cattle. They were ranchers and farmers and bull-whackers of yore, horse breeders, schoolteachers, … [Read more...]
Bloodlines (original version)
This tale is a history, a fable, a prayer; of those gone before me, now gathered with care. Can’t start in the middle—too confusing, not clear, can’t start at the end—will be over I fear. So I’ll start from the first as far back as I can and nudge you along ’til you’ve met the whole clan. When you … [Read more...]
1.014 Sketches of Clemens Family
My Father’s Family (Carl John Clemens) The Clemens’ place was a 210-acre dairy farm that in the first flurry of winter was a Norman Rockwell picture of snow-covered paradise. It was the first farm lying just west of the outskirts of the city of Rochester in the Township of Cascade, Olmsted County, … [Read more...]
1.013 The Clemens Farm (part 3)
The Clemens and Nigon families did well, all successful farmers of German heritage. Not one family lost their farm in the Great Depression, like so many farmers who had strapped their land with bank loans. They worked, paid cash for what they needed, then drank beer and danced... but not until work … [Read more...]
1.012 The Clemens Farm (part 2)
The Clemens children went to the county school just down the hill, and then to St. John’s Grade School in the former St. Mary’s Hall, a big, two-story brick building a mile away. The three oldest girls were so close in age that Grandma held Mary back a year so she and Elizabeth could start school … [Read more...]
1.011 The Clemens Farm (part 1)
My grandparents, Matt and Barbara Clemens, were known for attending funerals. Relatives, close friends, acquaintances, people they barely knew: it didn’t matter. They went to all of them. It was their social center. If anyone wanted to visit them and a nearby funeral was happening, they knew Grandpa … [Read more...]
1.010 Minnesota Catholics and Cows
1920 • Minnesota ~ When the wheels needed to be changed or the axles greased, my father—not yet a man—lifted the more than 200-pound hay wagon with his back, raised it higher with his arms, and held it steady while his older brother Aloysius, or Louie as the family called him, slipped the new wheel … [Read more...]
1.002 Crazy Quilt
1895 - 1915 • Nellie ~ My grandmother started her crazy quilt in 1895, the same year she started her family. Twenty years later, with the birth of my mother, Noreen Ellen "Babe" Chatfield, she completed them both. During Nellie’s first period of confinement (it was improper for pregnant and … [Read more...]
Visions of Hell on Earth: Chatfield Story
The Chatfield Story: Guest post from my cousins, Terry and Peg Chatfield-McCarty The flood of memories, the details of countless events recalled at late evening fireside, the myriad of horrid private images never shared with anyone—we can only begin to imagine how this original O’Dea Andersonville … [Read more...]
Teller of Tales
Teller of Tales This tale is a history, a fable, a prayer of those gone before me, now gathered with care. The diaries and pictures and letters enclosed deciphered my kin and what they supposed. Those who are living—their stories intact, Those gone before us—who knows what was fact? I met … [Read more...]
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