FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Clark W. Charles Chatfield 2nd of 9 children of Isaac Willard “I.W.” Chatfield & Eliza Ann Harrington Born: Sep 21, 1861, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois Died: Sep 21, 1861, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois; at birth Buried: Bath Cemetery in Bath, Mason Co., Illinois Nine children … [Read more...]
Ella Chatfield & Josiah Small
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Ella Clara Chatfield 1st of 9 children of Isaac Willard "I.W." Chatfield & Eliza Ann Harrington Born: April 2, 1859, near Fort Scott, Bourbon Co., Territory of Kansas Died: Aug 15, 1948 (age 89), Globe, Gila Co., Arizona; coronary embolism, hypostatic pneumonia, … [Read more...]
Ellen Chatfield and Isaac Batchellor
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Ellen Charlotte Chatfield 4th of 4 living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick Born: Mar 1846, Bath, Mason Co., Illinois Died: Sep 7 or 8, 1928 (age 82), (prob Denver, Denver Co.) Colorado Buried: Sep 10, 1928, Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Denver Co., … [Read more...]
Capt. Charles Henry Chatfield
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Charles Henry Chatfield 3rd of 4 living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick Born: Oct 3, 1840, Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio Died: Jun 27, 1864 (age 23), Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (near Marietta), Cobb Co., Georgia Buried: Marietta National Cemetery … [Read more...]
Clark S. Chatfield & Mary E. 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 … [Read more...]
Clark S. Chatfield & Louisa Tankersley
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Clark Samuel "C.S." 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: Princeton Cemetery … [Read more...]
Isaac W. Chatfield & Eliza Harrington
FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY Isaac Willard "I.W." Chatfield 1st of 4 living children of Levi Tomlinson Chatfield & Lovina Mastick Born: Aug 11, 1836, Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio Died: Jun 14, 1921 (age 84), San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California; arteriosclerosis and chronic cystitis (suffered from … [Read more...]
Lord Love a Duck!
Lord Love A Duck! There once were three brothers, from England did flee, Sailed on the St. John in good company. Our line comes off George—ten progeny past— Begetting the Chatfields from which I am cast. They're an interesting bunch, left their mark in the world With a wide path to follow, a … [Read more...]
Census Guide
Explanation of Census Records The United States government has conducted a census of each state and territory every ten years since 1790 and, in some places, other years, for the purpose of apportioning representatives to the lower house of Congress. To protect the privacy of the … [Read more...]
Early Photography
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...]
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): Pa (Mathew Sylvester Clemens), my Dad's father, was a year old when his family moved from Mazeppa to the new house in Rochester in 1875. He grew up in this house, and when he married, his children were all born and raised here. It was their root, where they … [Read more...]
1.013 The Clemens Farm (3 of 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, and when the work was done, they drank beer and … [Read more...]
1.012 The Clemens Farm (2 of 3)
Amelia, Aunt Anne Nigon (Grandma’s younger sister) Aloysius, Carl Matt S. Clemens (Father), Elizabeth, Mary Mathew Clemens, Sr. (GrandDad), (no Joe), Agnes, Cecelia, Anna, baby Lawrence, Barbara Clemens (Mother), Mary (Reiland) Clemens (Grandmother) (Note: Joe, incorrectly named, was not yet … [Read more...]
1.011 The Clemens Farm (1 of 3)
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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