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Title: History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants, and of the other Chaffins in America
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Chaffin, William L. (William Ladd), b. 1837
Subjects: Chaffin family Chaffin, Robert, ca. 1695-1744
Publisher: New York : F.H. Hitchcock
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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cClennan:Three, two sons and one daughter in Wyoming. Children of Ella Nelson and Wm. McComber: Three daughters living in the west. Children of INIargaret Fairchilds and Webster Helms were Bird,Mary and Lulu. Children of John Fairchild and Nellie Nichols were Cora, Clellie,Clorrie, Claud and James. Children of Lillie Fairchilds and Thos. Holland: John T., b. Jan. 1, 1875, Michigan; now Saraine, O. Has five children.Charles, b. Nov. 23, 1877, Michigan; now Perrinton, Mich.Minnie, b. Jan. 8, 1879, Michigan; m. Mr. Vonblankenstein.George, b. Mar. 3, 1880; now in Wisconsin.Pearl, b. Sept. 23, 1883, Michigan; m., has one child.Maud, b. June 10, 1889, Nebraska; m., one son, now in Montana.Ella, b. Nov. 17, 1892, Nebraska; now Detroit, Mich.Bessie, b. Dec. 18, 1893, Illinois; now Lansing, Mich.Thomas, Jr., b. 1898. Now Perrinton, Mich., in school. Children of Margaret Nelson and G. Miller:Four, three sons and one daughter. Children of Ella Nelson and Wm. McComber: Three daughters in Wyoming.
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MRS. AMANDA CHAFFIN SELDERS THE CHAFFIX FAMILY OF VIRGINIA 257 JOHN WESLEY CHAFFIN, son of John C. and Elizabeth(Miller) Chaffin, was b. in West Virginia Apr. 7, 1822. He m.Clara Ann Eirtts, who was born in Trumbull Co., O., in 1826.The) came from Ohio to North Star, Gratiot Co., Mich., in 185-i.He was a hunter and trapper and traded for furs and engaged inclearing a farm from the wilderness. But this kind of life hasjust been sufficiently described in the account given of Solomon.He was a kind man and very religious; d. in 1874. For 31 yearsafterwards his widow cared for the family and died, beloved by all,in 1905. Two of his children d. the first winter in Michigan. The son, Charles Marion, was educated in the common schoolsof Ithaca and the Agricultural College at Lansing. He taughtschool for 20 years in the winter, boarding around, and engagedin farming in the summer, traveling back and forth in histeaching he walked about 7,600 miles and rode 1,200, a total ofnearly 9,000 miles.

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