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             Husband: Enos Beecher CHATFIELD (1 2 3 4 5)
                Born: 05 MAY 1828 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
             Married: 14 SEP 1851 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (7)
                Died: 24 JAN 1893 in Marshalltown, Iowa (6)
              Buried: in Asbury Cemetery., Asbury, Dubuque, Iowa
              Father: Enos CHATFIELD
              Mother: Roxy SPERRY
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mary Elizabeth SEYMOUR
                Born:
                Died:
              Father: William Augustus SEYMOUR
              Mother: Sarah DUNHAM
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Frederick Seymour CHATFIELD
                Born: 24 DEC 1853 in Seymour, New Haven, CT
                Died: 20 JUN 1925 in Bankston, Iowa
             Spouses: 
02               (M): William Howard CHATFIELD
                Born: 11 OCT 1854 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died: 10 JUL 1855 in Dubuque, Iowa
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Mason.
  2. 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.]
  3. 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.]
  4. Photograph Courtesy of Cheryl (Chatfield) Thomas.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pho1496.html.]
  5. Cheryl Chatfield Thompson, The Life of Enos Beecher Chatfield.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/Cheryl/EnosBeecherChatfield.html.]
  6. Family.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cht-letters-etc.html#11.]
  7. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 108.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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