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             Husband: Enos CHATFIELD (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
                Born: l 1797 (12)
          Christened: 23 APR 1797 in Oxford Congregational Church (13 14)
             Married: 25 MAR 1827 in Bethany, New Haven, CT
                Died: 05 JUN 1869 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (15 16 17)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (18 19)
              Father: Abijah CHATFIELD
              Mother: Hannah BALL
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Roxy SPERRY (20 21 22)
                Born: 21 MAY 1802
                Died: 21 MAY 1864 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (23 24 25)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (26 27)
              Father: Ezra SPERRY
              Mother: Abigail Eaton CRITTENDEN
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Enos Beecher CHATFIELD (28 29 30 31 32)
                Born: 05 MAY 1828 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 24 JAN 1893 in Marshalltown, Iowa (33)
             Spouses: Mary Elizabeth SEYMOUR
02               (F): Mary Almira CHATFIELD (34 35 36)
                Born: 05 FEB 1829 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: Harpin DAVIS
03               (F): Harriet Crittenden CHATFIELD (37 38 39 40 41 42 43)
                Born: 08 JUL 1832 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 08 OCT 1910
             Spouses: Egbert L. WARNER
04               (F): Emily C. CHATFIELD (44 45 46 47 48 49 50)
                Born: 23 APR 1833 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 27 MAR 1924
             Spouses: Lucius Perkins SPERRY
05               (M): Charles Smith CHATFIELD (51 52 53 54)
                Born: 15 DEC 1835 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (55)
                Died: 31 JUL 1855 in Davenport, Iowa (56)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (57 58)
             Spouses: 
06               (M): Alfred Bennett CHATFIELD (59 60 61 62)
                Born: 10 NOV 1837 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (63)
                Died: AUG 1864 in Idaho Territory (64)
             Spouses: Laura Cornelia SMITH
07               (M): Edward Wales CHATFIELD (65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72)
                Born: 22 JUL 1839 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (73)
                Died: 28 Jun1910 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (74)
             Spouses: Jennie Eunice CLARK
08               (M): Heber C. CHATFIELD (75 76 77 78 79 80 81)
                Born: 1843 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 15 JAN 1893
             Spouses: Jane G. WOOSTER
09               (F): Julia CHATFIELD (82 83 84 85)
                Born: l 1845 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (86)
                Died:
             Spouses: William W. THOMAS

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield, History of St. Peter's Church in Oxford, Connecticut (1955-56), 65.
    [1843 - St. Peter's Church
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Churches/history-of_saint_peters_church/sp_065.html.]
  2. The Diaries of Laura Davis 1856-1857.
    Thurs 8th Coldest day we have had this winter. Sewing Society met at Enos Chatfield's.
    [Jan 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  3. Ibid.
    Tues 20th Clear and not quite as cold as yesterday. Father went to help break paths. Got as far as Enos Chatfields, came home. Got to go again another day and dig over to Oxford.
    [Jan 1857
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  4. Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #140.
    [Chestnut Tree Hill Road Extension, Oxford, CT
    http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.]
  5. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1693.
  6. 1840 Oxford Census.
  7. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  8. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  9. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Proceeding north a short distance from the Tucker homestead we come to the old Chatfield residence situated on the corner of the road leading to Oxford Center. The house is large and roomy. Many additions having been built onto it from time to time. It was the birth place of Enos Chatfield, who lived there all his long and useful life. He married Roxy Sperry of Bethany and had nine children - Mary, Beecher,Charles, Emily, Harriett, Bennett, Wales, Helen and Julia.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  10. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  11. Family.
    Photograph Courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thompson.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pho1488.html.]
  12. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 26.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/026.html.]
  14. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 316.
  15. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 122.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/122.html.]
  16. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 316.
  17. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Chatfield, Enos, died June 5, 1869, age 72 yrs.
    Chatfield, Roxy, died May 22, 1864, age 62 yrs.
    Smith, Charles, died at Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1855, age 19 yrs.
    Bennett, Alfred, died at Idaho Territory, Aug. 1864, age 27 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  18. Ibid., 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  19. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1488.html.]
  20. 1850 Oxford Census.
  21. 1860 Oxford Census.
  22. Roxy Sperry (Photograph courtsey of Cheryl Chatfield Thompson).
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pho1489.html.]
  23. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 120.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/120.html.]
  24. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1693.
  25. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Chatfield, Enos, died June 5, 1869, age 72 yrs.
    Chatfield, Roxy, died May 22, 1864, age 62 yrs.
    Smith, Charles, died at Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1855, age 19 yrs.
    Bennett, Alfred, died at Idaho Territory, Aug. 1864, age 27 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  26. Ibid., 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  27. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1489.html.]
  28. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Mason.
  29. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Beecher M. Miss Seymour who was a temporary resident of Oxford at the time, and he very soon started towards the land of gold.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  30. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  31. Photograph Courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thomas.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pho1496.html.]
  32. Cheryl Chatfield Thompson, The Life of Enos Beecher Chatfield.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/Cheryl/EnosBeecherChatfield.html.]
  33. Family.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cht-letters-etc.html#11.]
  34. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  35. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Mary married Harpin Davis, son of Anson Davis of Seymour. they moved to Dubuque, Iowa, and are still living there.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  36. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  37. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 2.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan2.html.]
  38. 1850 Oxford Census.
  39. 1860 Oxford Census.
    School Teacher.
  40. 1870 Oxford Census.
  41. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Harriett married Egbert Warner, otherwise known as Ephraim Smooth, of Oxford. After his marriage he moved to New Haven where he was engaged in the real estate business until his death about 1898. His widow still resides in New Haven.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  42. 1880 Southbury Census.
  43. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  44. Ibid., Chapter 2.
    Emily m. Lucius Sperry of New Haven where she still lives.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  45. 1850 Oxford Census.
  46. 1860 Oxford Census.
  47. 1870 New Haven Census.
  48. 1880 New Haven Census.
  49. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  50. Family.
    [Photograph courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thomas
    http://oxfordpast.net/pho1499.html.]
  51. 1850 Oxford Census.
  52. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Charles lived at home until his death at the age of 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  53. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  54. Family.
    [Photograph courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thomas
    http://oxfordpast.net/pho8987.html.]
  55. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  56. Ibid., 11.
    Chatfield, Enos, died June 5, 1869, age 72 yrs.
    Chatfield, Roxy, died May 22, 1864, age 62 yrs.
    Smith, Charles, died at Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1855, age 19 yrs.
    Bennett, Alfred, died at Idaho Territory, Aug. 1864, age 27 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  57. Ibid., 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  58. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem8987.html.]
  59. 1850 Oxford Census.
  60. 1860 Oxford Census.
  61. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Bennett lived at home until he m. Celia Smith, daughter of Ephraim Smith of Rockhouse Hill. Soon after he went to Oregon and was never heard from after. It was supposed that he was killed by the Indians. His widow m. Frances, of Rockhouse Hill.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  62. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  63. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  64. Ibid., 11.
    Chatfield, Enos, died June 5, 1869, age 72 yrs.
    Chatfield, Roxy, died May 22, 1864, age 62 yrs.
    Smith, Charles, died at Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1855, age 19 yrs.
    Bennett, Alfred, died at Idaho Territory, Aug. 1864, age 27 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  65. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 116.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/116.html.]
  66. 1850 Oxford Census.
  67. 1860 Oxford Census.
  68. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  69. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  70. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  71. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Wales spent most of his life on the farm except for a while, when he was engaged selling tinware about the surrounding towns. He m. Jane Clark of Milford. Two children were born to them, William and Mary. Mrs Chatfield died in 1909. Wales died in 1911.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  72. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  73. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 13.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan13.html.]
  74. Ibid., 13.
    Leek, Frank A., born Aug. 14, 1844, died Mar. 8, 1918
    Clark, Mary Jane, born Aug. 27, 1847, died Oct. 29, 1907
    Chatfield, Edward W., born July 22, 1839, died June 28, 1910
    Chatfield, Jennie E. Clark, wife of Edward W., born Apr. 15, 1849, died Apr. 30, 1907
    Chatfield, Josephine, daughter of Edward W. & Jennie E. C., born Oct. 28, 1885, died May 15, 1892
    Chatfield, Edith, daughter of Edward W., & Jennie E. C. born July 31, 1889, died July 23, 1890
    Chatfield, Charles, son of Edward W., & Jennie E. C., born July 5, 1879, died July 2, 1889
    Chatfield, William E., son of Edward W., & Jennie E. C. Born Feb. 15, 1876, died Sept. 29, 1907
    Lum, Charlie, infant son of Charles H. & Isabelle Leigh
    Henman, Jennett, wife of William, died Dec. 12, 1831, age 28 yrs. 6 mos.
    Whitney, George H., died Apr. 10, 1855, age 34 yrs.
    Osborn, Joel, died May 25, 1871, age 50 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan13.html.]
  75. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 114.
    ... This place is known as the Osborn homestead. The north portion of the house was built by Harvey Osborn about the year 1820. ... The place was afterwards sold to Edwin Alling and some time in the year 1909 the place was sold to Charles Baldwin of Seymour, who occupied it only a short time.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/114.html.]
  76. 1850 Oxford Census.
  77. 1860 Oxford Census.
  78. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Butcher.
  79. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Meat dealer.
  80. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Heber lived at home until his 19th year when he engaged in the butchering business with Egbert Warner and later established a profitable paying business in Beacon Falls, and when at the height of his prosperity no one in the town drove a better pair of trotters or sported a better gold watch and chain than he did. But alas for human frailty, like many others he could not stand prosperity, and the many dollars he once could lay claim to gradually slipped from his nerveless grasp. At the last friendless and almost an outcast, he was killed by a railroad train at a crossing in Beacon Falls several years ago.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  81. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  82. 1860 Oxford Census.
  83. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 2.
    Julia, the youngest, was born in 1846 and lived at home until she married William Thomas of New Haven.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-02.html.]
  84. Ibid., Chapter 4.
    NOTE after Chapter 4 -- commenting and correcting Chapter 1:
    In the Chapter 1, you say -- The first house on "the hill" was owned and occupied by Otis Davis a son of Col. John Davis. It should have read John Davis; he married Laura Riggs. Their four sons were John Riggs, Isaac, Otis and William Hart. Otis died young.
    Children of Enos and Roxy Chatfield:
    1. Mary Almena, m. Harpin Davis
    2. Enos Beecher, m. Elizabeth Seymour
    3. Harriet Crittenton, m. Egbert L. Warner.
    4. Emily, m. Lucius Perkins Sperry
    5. Charles Smith, died, aged 19 years, not married.
    6. Alfred Bennett, m. Cornelia Smith
    7. Edward Wales, m. Jane Clark
    8. Heber, m. Jane Wooster
    9. Julia, m. William W. Thomas
    * Harpin and Mary Davis lived in Seymour, CT for a few years, moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1855; from there to Florence, Neb. In 1860 they moved to Arvada, Col , where the widow still lives, near her children.
    * Beecher and Elizabeth moved to Dubuque, Iowa. they are both dead. Some of their children are still living there.
    * Egbert and Harriet Warner are both dead. Children are living in New Haven.
    * Emily survives Lucius P. Sperry; is living at 257 Sherman Avenue, New Haven., Conn.
    * Charles died in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855; is buried there. Bennett died in Iowa.
    * Wales and Heber lived in Oxford,m Conn; both dead.
    * Julia, widow of Wm. Thomas, lives at 221 Norton Street, New Haven.
    Am very glad to know who occupies the house on Chestnut Tree Hill
    AN OLD INTERESTED RESIDENT.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-04.html.]
  85. Family.
    [Photograph courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thomas
    http://oxfordpast.net/pho1494.html.]
  86. 1850 Oxford Census.

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