George Austin Chafee

Male 1840 - 1903  (62 years)

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  • Name George Austin Chafee 
    Birth 14 Dec 1840  Bristol, Bristol Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Jul 1903 
    Burial Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I00455  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father George Tew Barker CHAFEE,   b. 27 May 1816, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1891, Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Harriet Newell AUSTIN,   b. 1822, North Kingstown, Washington Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1856, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Marriage 18 Mar 1839  Bristol, Bristol Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • This information was found in the Bristol town records, p. 43 of the old marriage listings. I have a photocopy.
      It is also listed in James N. Arnold's Index of Vital Records for Bristol (a tan library-bound book).
    Family ID F00113  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Matilda Pitt,   b. Dec 1840, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Dec 1900 (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 23 Nov 1864  Middletown, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Charles Austin Chafee,   b. 29 Jun 1868, Middletown, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1949, Middletown, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     2. Grace Irene Chafee,   b. 31 Jul 1870
    Family ID F00209  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • George owned the Chafee Hotel in Middletown, CT.

      In the front of my grandmother's old Bible there is this notation, written in her handwriting: "Lest I forget, I must write down the Chafee family motto -- 'As we journey through life, let us live by the way.' It is above the large fireplace in the Chafee Hotel in Middletown Conn. made in the masonry."

  • Sources 
    1. [S012583] William H. Chaffee, The Chaffee Genealogy, (New York: Grafton Press, 1909), 452.

    2. [S013063] Bristol Town Records, Vol. 4, p. 34.