When Sally Precinda Chaffee was born on 6 September 1838, in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont, United States, her father, Samuel Luther Chaffee, was 26 and her mother, Ursula Selenda Janes, was 20. She died on 30 August 1857, at the age of 18.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (of Norman origin): descriptive nickname from a derivative of Old French chauf ‘bald’ (from Latin calvus). Compare Cave .
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