Ernest Alonzo CHAFFEE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, living with parents in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1900, Living in Westminster, Orange Co., California
• Occupation: 1900; Farmer
• Census: 1910, Living in Huntington Beach, Orange Co., California
• Occupation: 1910; County - Deputy ?
• Census: 1920, Living in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles Co., California
• Census: 1930, Living in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles Co., California
• Fact: 1930, Listed as a widower

Family/Spouse: Minerva Bell UNDERWOOD. Minerva was born in Feb 1874 in Iowa; died before 1930 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Helen CHAFFEE was born in May 1895 in California.
2. Lennar E. CHAFFEE was born in Jun 1897 in California.
3. Mildred CHAFFEE was born in Dec 1898 in California.
4. Dorr W. CHAFFEE was born on 29 Oct 1901 in California; died on 15 Oct 1971 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
5. Walter Keith CHAFFEE was born on 23 Jul 1903 in California; died in Apr 1981 in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.
6. George Leroy CHAFFEE was born on 25 Jan 1907 in California; died in Feb 1979 in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living in Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1880, Living in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer
• Census: 1900, Living in Westminster, Orange Co., California
• Occupation: 1900; Farmer

Notes:

St. Charles (Illinois) Review, Saturday, 8 June 1878
Batavia Department

Headline: Lily Lake and Other Creameries

The farm of D.B. Chaffee contains 160 acres, half of which is timber, twelve acres corn, and fifteen oats. Last year, corn was a good crop and oats yielded 650 bushels from ten acres. The stock consists of twenty-five cows, (the milk of which is sent to Chicago), eight horses and a number of hogs. there is an excellent spring on the place, which the owner has utilized for a pool in his milk house. The farm is abundantly watered by Mill Creek. It is two miles from Blackberry Station. This gentleman is a Methodist and the family attend church at Canada Corners.

Name:
He enlisted in Company B, 29th Illinois Volunteers, in the spring of 1863 for three months, and was taken ill with typhoid fever and compelled to return home, while with his regiment at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, guarding Southern soldiers. He is a farmer and lived from 1841 to 1881 in Campton, removing in that year to Garden Grove, California.

Dorr married Ladona T. TREADWELL on 15 Nov 1865 in Kane County,Illinois. Ladona was born about 1844 in Canada; died in 1881 in Illinois; was buried in Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Martin Treadwell
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Elgin, Kane Co., Illinois
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Campton, Kane Co., Illinois