ALBERT, b. Feb. 24, 1851 ; d. Oct. 14, 1910. On account of being the seventh son he was named " Doctor " Albert He has seldom used the name Doctor, and latterly has signed his name D. A. He followed the carpenter's trade a short time but most of his early life was spent on a farm. Feb. 8, 1874, he m. Sarah Elizabeth Orr of Applecreek, O., b. Feb. 26, 1854, dau. of Samuel and Eleanor. In 1876 they moved to Virden, 111., running a farm for awhile that belonged to his brother Hiram, and they then purchased a farm of their own. They owned several different farms in Illinois, but in 1882 moved to Raymore, Mo., where on Feb. 5, 1891, Mrs. Chaffin died. He then in 1892 returned to Wayne Co., 0., having lived about ten years on a farm half a mile south of Raymore.
Early in 1893 he m. again and went west, taking a farm about five miles west of Humansville, Mo. ; but in four years he returned to Ohio, purchasing the old home farm near what was formerly known as '' Cross-Keys," but now East Union. This farm he sold later and purchased others near Orrville. In 1910 he sold his farm and bought property in Orrville in order to retire because of failing health. But he had worked too long and too hard and on Oct. 14, 1910, he died. His remains lie at rest in the Crown Hill cemetery at Orrville, while those of his wife and daughter Lula Belle are in the cemetery at Raymore, Mo. His first son's remains are in the Honeytown, 0., cemetery. Children :
i. Howard Scott, b. Apr. 12, d. Aug. 19, 1875. 177 ii. WiLLARD Simon, b. Aug. 22, 1877.
iii. Etta Mae, b. Oct. 10, 1886, near Raymore, Mo. She remained at home until Sept., 1901, and then lived with her aunt, Alice Beelman, attending high school and graduating in 1906. For a year then she was bookkeeper and stenographer for the Brown Merchandise Co. of Mansfield, O. She then spent two and a half years in the Wooster, O., University, since when she has been employed as stenographer by the Diamond Rubber Co. of Akron, O., but going in 1910 to their Chicago office. On June 1, 1912, she m. Ray W. Smith, traveling salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Co., residence Milwaukee.
iv. Lula Belle, b. Mar. 24, 1889; d. Sept. 26, 1889.
V. Ira Wellman, b. June 11, 1890, near Raymore, Mo.; attended district schools, working on farms in the summer. During the winter of 1909-10 he was employed in the Adams Express ofl'ice at Orrville, 0., and later worked in the machine shop of the Cyclone Drill Co. In Oct., 1910, he entered the East Chicago, Ind., mills of the Republic Iron and Steel Co. as assistant roll-turner, and he now works in the same capacity in the U. S. Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind.
From an early 20th century book on the History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants and of the other Chaffins in America
Early in 1893 he m. again and went west, taking a farm about five miles west of Humansville, Mo. ; but in four years he returned to Ohio, purchasing the old home farm near what was formerly known as '' Cross-Keys," but now East Union. This farm he sold later and purchased others near Orrville. In 1910 he sold his farm and bought property in Orrville in order to retire because of failing health. But he had worked too long and too hard and on Oct. 14, 1910, he died. His remains lie at rest in the Crown Hill cemetery at Orrville, while those of his wife and daughter Lula Belle are in the cemetery at Raymore, Mo. His first son's remains are in the Honeytown, 0., cemetery. Children :
i. Howard Scott, b. Apr. 12, d. Aug. 19, 1875. 177 ii. WiLLARD Simon, b. Aug. 22, 1877.
iii. Etta Mae, b. Oct. 10, 1886, near Raymore, Mo. She remained at home until Sept., 1901, and then lived with her aunt, Alice Beelman, attending high school and graduating in 1906. For a year then she was bookkeeper and stenographer for the Brown Merchandise Co. of Mansfield, O. She then spent two and a half years in the Wooster, O., University, since when she has been employed as stenographer by the Diamond Rubber Co. of Akron, O., but going in 1910 to their Chicago office. On June 1, 1912, she m. Ray W. Smith, traveling salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Co., residence Milwaukee.
iv. Lula Belle, b. Mar. 24, 1889; d. Sept. 26, 1889.
V. Ira Wellman, b. June 11, 1890, near Raymore, Mo.; attended district schools, working on farms in the summer. During the winter of 1909-10 he was employed in the Adams Express ofl'ice at Orrville, 0., and later worked in the machine shop of the Cyclone Drill Co. In Oct., 1910, he entered the East Chicago, Ind., mills of the Republic Iron and Steel Co. as assistant roll-turner, and he now works in the same capacity in the U. S. Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind.
From an early 20th century book on the History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants and of the other Chaffins in America
ALBERT, b. Feb. 24, 1851 ; d. Oct. 14, 1910. On account of being the seventh son he was named " Doctor " Albert He has seldom used the name Doctor, and latterly has signed his name D. A. He followed the carpenter's trade a short time but most of his early life was spent on a farm. Feb. 8, 1874, he m. Sarah Elizabeth Orr of Applecreek, O., b. Feb. 26, 1854, dau. of Samuel and Eleanor. In 1876 they moved to Virden, 111., running a farm for awhile that belonged to his brother Hiram, and they then purchased a farm of their own. They owned several different farms in Illinois, but in 1882 moved to Raymore, Mo., where on Feb. 5, 1891, Mrs. Chaffin died. He then in 1892 returned to Wayne Co., 0., having lived about ten years on a farm half a mile south of Raymore.
Early in 1893 he m. again and went west, taking a farm about five miles west of Humansville, Mo. ; but in four years he returned to Ohio, purchasing the old home farm near what was formerly known as '' Cross-Keys," but now East Union. This farm he sold later and purchased others near Orrville. In 1910 he sold his farm and bought property in Orrville in order to retire because of failing health. But he had worked too long and too hard and on Oct. 14, 1910, he died. His remains lie at rest in the Crown Hill cemetery at Orrville, while those of his wife and daughter Lula Belle are in the cemetery at Raymore, Mo. His first son's remains are in the Honeytown, 0., cemetery. Children :
i. Howard Scott, b. Apr. 12, d. Aug. 19, 1875. 177 ii. WiLLARD Simon, b. Aug. 22, 1877.
iii. Etta Mae, b. Oct. 10, 1886, near Raymore, Mo. She remained at home until Sept., 1901, and then lived with her aunt, Alice Beelman, attending high school and graduating in 1906. For a year then she was bookkeeper and stenographer for the Brown Merchandise Co. of Mansfield, O. She then spent two and a half years in the Wooster, O., University, since when she has been employed as stenographer by the Diamond Rubber Co. of Akron, O., but going in 1910 to their Chicago office. On June 1, 1912, she m. Ray W. Smith, traveling salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Co., residence Milwaukee.
iv. Lula Belle, b. Mar. 24, 1889; d. Sept. 26, 1889.
V. Ira Wellman, b. June 11, 1890, near Raymore, Mo.; attended district schools, working on farms in the summer. During the winter of 1909-10 he was employed in the Adams Express ofl'ice at Orrville, 0., and later worked in the machine shop of the Cyclone Drill Co. In Oct., 1910, he entered the East Chicago, Ind., mills of the Republic Iron and Steel Co. as assistant roll-turner, and he now works in the same capacity in the U. S. Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind.
From an early 20th century book on the History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants and of the other Chaffins in America
Early in 1893 he m. again and went west, taking a farm about five miles west of Humansville, Mo. ; but in four years he returned to Ohio, purchasing the old home farm near what was formerly known as '' Cross-Keys," but now East Union. This farm he sold later and purchased others near Orrville. In 1910 he sold his farm and bought property in Orrville in order to retire because of failing health. But he had worked too long and too hard and on Oct. 14, 1910, he died. His remains lie at rest in the Crown Hill cemetery at Orrville, while those of his wife and daughter Lula Belle are in the cemetery at Raymore, Mo. His first son's remains are in the Honeytown, 0., cemetery. Children :
i. Howard Scott, b. Apr. 12, d. Aug. 19, 1875. 177 ii. WiLLARD Simon, b. Aug. 22, 1877.
iii. Etta Mae, b. Oct. 10, 1886, near Raymore, Mo. She remained at home until Sept., 1901, and then lived with her aunt, Alice Beelman, attending high school and graduating in 1906. For a year then she was bookkeeper and stenographer for the Brown Merchandise Co. of Mansfield, O. She then spent two and a half years in the Wooster, O., University, since when she has been employed as stenographer by the Diamond Rubber Co. of Akron, O., but going in 1910 to their Chicago office. On June 1, 1912, she m. Ray W. Smith, traveling salesman for the B. F. Goodrich Co., residence Milwaukee.
iv. Lula Belle, b. Mar. 24, 1889; d. Sept. 26, 1889.
V. Ira Wellman, b. June 11, 1890, near Raymore, Mo.; attended district schools, working on farms in the summer. During the winter of 1909-10 he was employed in the Adams Express ofl'ice at Orrville, 0., and later worked in the machine shop of the Cyclone Drill Co. In Oct., 1910, he entered the East Chicago, Ind., mills of the Republic Iron and Steel Co. as assistant roll-turner, and he now works in the same capacity in the U. S. Steel Corporation at Gary, Ind.
From an early 20th century book on the History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants and of the other Chaffins in America
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