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             Husband: Alfred Bennett CHATFIELD (1 2 3 4)
                Born: 10 NOV 1837 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (5)
             Married: 29 MAR 1863
                Died: AUG 1864 in Idaho Territory (6)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (7 8)
              Father: Enos CHATFIELD
              Mother: Roxy SPERRY
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Laura Cornelia SMITH (9 10 11 12 13)
                Born: 20 JUN 1842 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (14)
          Christened: 19 SEP 1847 in Christ Church, Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT (15)
                Died: 11 OCT 1930 (16)
              Buried: in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (17)
              Father: Ephraim SMITH
              Mother: >>>
             Spouses: Morrell FRANCIS

Footnotes

  1. 1850 Oxford Census.
  2. 1860 Oxford Census.
  3. 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.]
  4. 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.]
  5. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  6. 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.]
  7. Ibid., 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  8. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1492.html.]
  9. 1850 Oxford Census.
  10. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Laura C. / School Teacher.
  11. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Cornelia L. / School Teacher.
  12. 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.]
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 142.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/142.html.]
  14. Ibid., 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/113.html.]
  15. Ibid., 137.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/137.html.]
  16. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 49.
  17. Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem10000.html.]

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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