Thirteenth Generation

1966. John Chatfield was born on 4 April 1838 in Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He appeared in the census in 1850 in Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He died Apoplexy. on 25 December 1896 at the age of 58 in New York Co., New York, USA. John was buried in Trinity Cmtry., Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. For a number of years after attaining his majority was a resident of Seymour and was a justice of the peace from 1861 to 1868, and one of the school visitors from 1863 to 1866. Since then he has been the proprietor of several large hotels in this state, in Philadelphia, at Brighton, Shelter Island and New London, and for four years was manager of Fenwick Hall. He is now proprietor of the Hotel Jefferson. New York City. He became a member of Morning Star Lodge, F. & A. M., Feb. 27, 1861. He married 1st, Anna J. Leigh, daughter of Lewis and Isabelle Leigh, of Willington, Conn., b. 1815.

Death report in New York Times 26 Dec 1896
Chatfield, John, at his residence, Hotel Jefferson, Christmas morning, suddenly of apoplexy, in his 59th year.

The Philadelphia Record - Dec 26 1896
John Chatfield. proprietor of the Hotel Jefferson, Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue, died suddenly from apoplexy this morning. Mr. Chatfield had..."

John Chatfield and Anna Jane "Annie" Leigh were married on 15 September 1864 in Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA. New Jersey, Marriages
Name: John Chatfield
Birth Date: 1838
Age: 26
Spouse's Name: Annie Leigh
Spouse's Birth Date: 1846
Spouse's Age: 18
Event Date: 15 Sep 1864
Event Place: Paterson,Passaic,New Jersey
Father's Name: Joel H. Chatfield [ Error as it should be Joel R]
Mother's Name: Mary
Spouse's Father's Name: Lewis Leigh
Spouse's Mother's Name: Mabella
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51240-2
System Origin: New_Jersey-ODM
GS Film number: 584579

Quoted in Find a Grave as Married (1): Mar 15, 1864, JOHN CHATFIELD, Passaic County, New Jersey
Anna Jane "Annie" Leigh, daughter of Lewis Leigh and Isabella Valentine, was born on 30 December 1845 in Connecticut, USA. She died on 13 March 1870 at the age of 24 in Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Trinity Cmtry., Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. Forename "Annie" on tombstone.

John Chatfield and Anna Jane "Annie" Leigh had the following children:

3521	i.	Adelaide Isabella Chatfield was born on 19 December 1865 in USA.
3522	ii.	Mary Almira "May" Chatfield was born on 17 November 1867. Census 1870 Probably staying with grandparents Joel R and Mary as her mother, Anna Jane had just died.
3523	iii.	Annie Leigh Chatfield was born on 6 March 1870 in Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She died on 5 March 1876 at the age of 5 in Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Trinity Cmtry., Seymour, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA.

John Chatfield and Adelia Evelyn Edwards were married about 1871 in Manhattan, New York City, New York Co., New York, USA. Adelia Evelyn Edwards was born in 1840 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA. She died Heart trouble. on 25 May 1899 at the age of 59 in USA. of Boston.

The New York Times 27 May 1899
Mrs Adelia Evelyn Edwards died suddenly on Thursday afternoon of heart trouble, at the Hotel Jefferson, where she had lived seven years. She was the widow (mother) of John Edwards Chatfield, proprietor of the Jefferson. She was born in Boston, Mass., sixty-six years ago, and lived most of her life in that city.

John Chatfield and Adelia Evelyn Edwards had the following children: