Brief Life History of Carlyle
When Carlyle Chaffin was born on 26 May 1894, in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States, his father, John Rice Chaffin, was 44 and his mother, Ellen Jane Murie, was 38. He married Erma Olivia Waldram on 26 May 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1914 and lived in Lincoln Election Precinct, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 13 February 1980, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Christe Chaffin, "United States 1950 Census"
- Carlyle Chaffin, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Carlyle Chaffin, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1899 · Hague Peace Convention
The Hague Peace Convention was a series conferences that produced treaties and declarations. The convention took place in Hague, Netherlands. The conferences were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in secular international law.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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