Rossie W. CHAFFEE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Living in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer
• Census: 1900, Living in Campton Twp., Kane Co., Illinois
• Occupation: 1900; Landlord
• Census: 1910, Living in Campton Twp., Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1920, Living in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois

Notes:

Notes from "Commemorative Portrait and Biographical Record of Kane and Kendall Counties, Ill.: Alonzo D. Chaffee, a highly esteemed citizen and a thrifty, energetic and prominent farmer of Campton Township, owns a highly cultivated dairy farm on Section 21, comprising 140 acres of land, and takes an interest in fine stock, with which his farm is well supplies. He originally came from Windham County, Vermont, where he was born August 31, 1839.
Alonzo D. Chaffee made his home with his parents, attending the district school and also Mount Morris Seminary until the age of twenty, when he branched out for himself, buying a part of the old homestead, it being the fine farm upon which he now resides. October 7, 1863, he was united in marriage with Phoebe A. Padelford, a native of Elgin county, Canada, where she was born June 11, 1844, a daughter of J.F. and Prudence (Pound) Padelford, of Massachusetts and Canada, respectively. Five children have been the result of this union Charles A., a talented Christian young man of much promise, who was frowned May 11, 1886, when nearly twenty-one years old, while attending school at Aurora: Willie E., who died December 18, 1872; Mary A; Franklin E. ; and Rosie, who died December 31, 1881. Mr and Mrs. Chaffee and daughter are prominent members of the church. In politics he is a Republican, having been elected to several town offices, such as trustee of schools, and assessor, which position he holds at the present time....

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She is a member of the Baptist Church, her husband of the Methodist, which he joined at the age of eighteen and of which he was for eight years Trustee. He is a farmer and has been for eight terms Assessor of his town. He has a light complexion, blue eyes, and is five feet, eleven inches in height. In 1893 he lived in Campton, Ill.

Alonzo married Phoebe Ann PADELFORD on 07 Oct 1862 in Home of J. Franklin Padelford in Elgin, Ill.. Phoebe (daughter of James Franklin PADELFORD and Prudence POUND) was born on 11 Jun 1844 in Elgin County, Canada; died in 1927 in Illinois; was buried in New Hampshire Cemetery, Lily Lake, Kane Co., Illinois . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, living with parents in Dundee, Kane Co., Il
• Census: 1860, living with parents in Dundee, Kane Co., Il
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Campton Twp., Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Campton Twp., Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois