Twelfth Generation

991. Russell Chatfield was born in September 1788 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He died on 8 July 1878 at the age of 89 in Bethany [now Beacon Falls], New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Christ Episcopal Cmtry., Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. Russell Chatfield, of Bethany, d. in July, 187G, aged 90 years. He was said to have been the oldest Mason in the state. He was made a Mason in South Carolina, it is thought in 1809, making him sixty-nine years a Mason. He was a mason by trade as well as a member of the order, having assisted in building the prison at Wethersfield and many other public buildings. In his younger days he worked at his trade in Connecticut in the summer and went south in the winter. He was blind the last four years of his life, but his memory was good. His wife died about a year before, the pair having lived together over sixty-five years. The funeral was attended by the members of Shepherd Lodge of Naugatuck.

Russell Chatfield and Sarah Terrill were married in 1813 in Bethany [now Beacon Falls], New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. Sarah Terrill, daughter of Phineas Terrill and Ruth Hawkins, was born about 1795 in Woodbridge, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She died on 24 August 1877 at the age of 82 in Bethany [now Beacon Falls], New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Christ Episcopal Cmtry., Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. Died aged 90.

Russell Chatfield and Sarah Terrill had the following children: