Fifteenth Generation

6972. Donald John Chatfield was born on 21 June 1911 in Mitchell, Davison Co., South Dakota, USA. He appeared in the census in 1935 in Deadwood, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, USA. He appeared in the census in 1940 in Whitehall, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA. Donald died Heart attack at funeral of wife on 11 March 1976 at the age of 64 in Charlo, Lake Co., Montana, USA. He was buried on 13 March 1976 in Roman Catholic Ch., Ronan, Lake Co., Montana, USA. He was Roman Catholic. Donald lived in Cleveland, Bon Homme Co., South Dakota, USA 1920/1925. Joanne Chatfield niece states.
When my uncle Donald was 18, he and a young 16 year old girl named Ida May (Mae) Broderson became parents to a girl named Patsy who was born about 1931 it appears. They were made to get married according to my mother's information and I have found the marriage record to prove this, and Patsy was born and taken and raised by my grandparents Lowell and Dorothy. When Uncle Donald married Eleanor (also seen as Elinor) Hawkes in 1935, they then took Patsy and raised her to adulthood. I have a picture of Patsy she sent to my father and it appears to be a high school senior picture and i met her once when she visited my parents when I was young - probably about 13 or so. So, the records that you have are incorrect to indicate that Patsy was my grandparents child - she was my Uncle Donald's child. I do not know what happened to Ida. Patsy did marry a McDonald and have a few children, but ths information is in one of many boxes that have been shelved for many years and I am unclear how many children she had.

Donald was a pipefitter and came to Kansas City to work on a big building complex in downtown Kansas City at the time (c. 1968).
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South Dakota, State Census, 1925
Name: Donald J Chatfield
Age: 13
Birth Year (Estimated): 1912
Gender: Male
Birthplace: South Dakota
Marital Status: Single
Event Place: South Dakota
Religion: Catholic
Father's Birthplace: South Dakota
Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
GS Film number: 2368286
Digital Folder Number: 4245671
Image Number: 03335
Sheet Number: 42
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South Dakota, State Census, 1935
Name: Donald Chatfield
Age: 23
Birth Year (Estimated): 1912
Gender: Male
Race (Original): W
Birthplace: South Dakota
Race: White
Marital Status: Divorced
Event Place: Deadwood ward 3, Lawrence, South Dakota
Post Office: Deadwood, South Dakota
Father's Birthplace: South Dakota
Mother's Birthplace: Iowa
Sheet Number: 150, GS Film number: 2369737 , Digital Folder Number: 4443940 , Image Number: 3157
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USA Census, 1940
Name: Donald J Chatfield
Event Place: Whitehall, Joint School District 4 Whitehall, Jefferson, Montana
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: South Dakota
Birth Year (Estimated): 1912
Last Place of Residence: Deadwood, South Dakota
District: 22-15
Family Number: 15
Sheet Number and Letter: 1A
Line Number: 33
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 2221
Digital Folder Number: 005461689
Image Number: 00885
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Donald J Chatfield M 28 South Dakota
Wife Eleanor F Chatfield F 26 Montana
Dau Patricia B Chatfield F 9 South Dakota
Dau Geraldine J Chatfield F 3 Montana
Son Chatfield M 0

Ida May (Mae) Broderson was born in 1913 in USA. QUERY
South Dakota, State Census, 1925
Name: Ida Broderson
Age: 11
Birth Year (Estimated): 1914
Gender: Female
Birthplace: South Dakota
Ethnicity: American
Event Place: South Dakota
Father's Birthplace: Iowa
Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Sheet Number: 65
GS Film number: 2368170 , Digital Folder Number: 4245658 , Image Number: 00633

Donald John Chatfield and Ida May (Mae) Broderson had the following children:

Donald John Chatfield and Eleanor Frances Hawke were married on 24 September 1935 in Dubois, Clark Co., Idaho, USA. Donald and Eleanor could not, at the time they married, get married in the Catholic Church because he had been married before. But in their later years they were officially married in the Catholic Church.
Eleanor Frances Hawke, daughter of William John Hawke and Helen Gertrude Davis, was born on 27 August 1913 in Montana, USA. She lived in Whitehall, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA in 1940. She died Cancer on 6 March 1976 at the age of 62 in Santa Clara Co., California, USA. Eleanor was buried in Ronan Cmtry., Ronan, Lake Co., Montana, USA. California Death Index
Name: Eleanor F Chatfield
Event Date: 06 Mar 1976
Event Place: Santa Clara, California
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1913
Birthplace: Montana
Gender: Female
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Find A Grave Memorial# 71832424

Donald John Chatfield and Eleanor Frances Hawke had the following children: