When Jerry E. Chaffin was born on 9 May 1943, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Comer Franklin Chaffin, was 41 and his mother, Clara Ethel Haney, was 39. He died on 12 February 1982, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Dodson Branch, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
English (Dorset and Somerset, of Norman origin): nickname for a bald man, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French chauf ‘bald(-headed)’ (from Latin calvus).
History: All present-day English bearers of the name Chaffin are descended from John Chaffin (died 1658), a blacksmith of Bruton, Somerset.
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