---

Augustus CHATHAM (photograph)	Elizabeth (Betsey Ann) TANNER
Marriage: 16 or 19 May 1836	Place: Quincy, Adams County, IL
Birth: 15 Jan 1816 Place: DE Death: 21 Mar 1884 Burial Place: Old Millville Cemetery, Shasta Co., CA Occupation: farmer wagonmaker carpenter Other spouses: Harriet D BRAND & Marie L TAYLOR	Birth: 20 Jan 1818 Place: Lake George, Warren Co., NY Death: 15 Mar 1880 Burial Place: Old Millville Cemetery, Shasta Co., CA

---

1. F Child: Isabella Mosier CHATHAM

Birth: 1838 Place: Illinois

Spouse: Thomas Luther GAULT

Marriage: 12 Mar 1854 Place: Quincy, Adams Co, Illinois

---

2. F Child: unknown CHATHAM

(If Nancy was born in 1842, then there was another daughter in the family in the 1840 Census. This would also tally with Betsey Ann's obituary that states that four of her eight children had predeceased her, and Richard Aubert Chatham's statement that his grandfather, George Richard, was the seventh of eight children.)

---

3. F Child: Nancy CHATHAM

Birth: 1840/1842 Place: Illinois

Spouse: Solomon HUFFORD

Marriage: 22 Mar 1855 Place: CA

---

4. M Child: William James CHATHAM

Birth: 24 Oct 1843 Place: Illinois

Death: 16 Oct 1862 Place: CA

---

5. M Child: John CHATHAM

Birth: 1844 Place: Illinois

(This child is only listed in the 1850 Census - but would tally with Betsey Ann's obituary that states that four of her eight children had predeceased her, and Richard Aubert Chatham's statement that his grandfather, George Richard, was the seventh of eight children.)

---

6. F Child: Mary CHATHAM

Birth: 1846 Place: Illinois

(This child is only listed in the 1850 Census - but would tally with Betsey Ann's obituary that states that four of her eight children had predeceased her, and Richard Aubert Chatham's statement that his grandfather, George Richard, was the seventh of eight children.)

---

7. M Child: George Richard CHATHAM

Birth: 23 Sep 1853 Place: Illinois

Death: 3 Oct 1882 Place: CA

Burial: Place: Old Millville Cemetery, Millville, Shasta Co., CA

Spouse: Margaret RUPERT

Marriage: 7 Apr 1875 Place: Millville, Shasta Co., CA

---

8. F Child: Sarah Jane CHATHAM

Birth: 31 Dec 1858 Place: Jackass Flats, Shasta Co., CA

Death: 31 Dec 1930

Spouse: Levi G KINNEY

Marriage: 7 Apr 1875 Place: Millville, Shasta Co., CA

Divorced: 1900

---

From The Shasta County Recorder (Millville, CA paper) via The Kinney Chronicles by Marie Kinney Clancy:

October 19, 1878: A. Chatham is putting up a two-story house just below Dr. Brown's place, which he intends to rent this winter.

---

From The Shasta County Recorder (Millville, CA paper) via The Kinney Chronicles by Marie Kinney Clancy:

March 20, 1880: Died: Betsy Ann Chatham aged 62 years. Mrs. Chatham was born near Lake George in the State of New York and came to California in the early days of the great excitement over the discovery of gold. She early embraced Christianity, and it is with consolation her family and friends and relatives know that what is their loss is her gain and that they may meet in the unknown future of eternity. Mrs. Chatham was the mother of eight children, four of whom had preceded her to the spirit land, and leaves to mourn her departure from this land an aged mother, a brother, husband, four children, eighteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Reverend W. H. Howard preached a memorial service over the remains of the deceased Thursday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives, friends, Odd Fellows and Masons (of which two orders she was a member) followed her to the grave.

---

From The Weekly Shasta Currier via The Kinney Chronicles by Marie Kinney Clancy:

The Marriage Fever

August 25, 1881

Millville has had its days of trouble, its malarial fevers and financial panics, but they are events to be numbered only with the past. The latest type of fever is the "marriage fever", which has suddenly broken loose in aristocratic circles, joy and gladness is manifested on every countenance and sorrow, sickness and mourning are no more.

On Wednesday evening last there was a large gathering of our people at the Farmers' Hotel, owned by J. D. Overmeyer, to witness the nuptials of our young townsman, Thomas Harrington and Miss Annie Brown, of Millville. The knot was tied by our worthy Justice, William N. Guptill, Esq., who performed the ceremony with grace and dignity and pronounced the happy pair husband and wife.

While all eyes were turned towards the fair bride and happy bridegroom, our worthy and much esteemed citizen, Great grandfather Augustus Chatham, a gentleman of upwards seventy summers, stepped forward to the hymneneal altar with his charming and beautiful bride, Mrs. Taylor, a maiden of sixty summers, and his Honorable Judge Guptill pronounced them man and wife.

Very few of the ladies and gentlemen present expected to witness the second marriage for it is only about six weeks since that nearly everyone present attended the nuptials of Mr. A. Chatham to Mrs. Harriet Brand of Shingletown. Many present looked up in amazement and enquired, "How is this? Has he obtained a divorce from his former wife before the honeymoon expired and by whom was he divorced and on what probably grounds?" The general response was that he and his late wife were divorced on the grounds of "mutual consent". But whatever may have been the cause of Mr. Chatham's unpleasantness with his late bride, it is a fact that during the last six weeks he has been twice married and once divorced. How many divorces he will be able to obtain before the end of the year, time alone can tell.

After the nuptials were duly celebrated and the happy couples united in holy matrimony according to the State of California, the assembly sat down to a magnificent supper consisting of the choicest viandes and edibles prepared for the occasion by Mrs. J. D. Overmeyer, and afterwards the invited guests had the pleasure of listening to the sweetest music, both vocal and instrumental, and all enjoyed themselves until late on the night, when all retired to their homes pleased and delighted with what they had seen, heard and beheld on the never-to-be forgotten double wedding at the Farmers' Hotel.

---

From The Weekly Shasta Currier via The Kinney Chronicles by Marie Kinney Clancy:

August 27, 1881; Superior Court

Augustus Chatham vs Harriet D. Chatham: Action for divorce. Default entered against defendant. Court orders that a divorce be granted to plaintiff on the ground of extreme cruelty.

 

Research Notes
The Kinney Chronicles self-published by Marie Kinney Clancy, 1993	Marriages of Adams County, found at Family History Library in Oakland, CA
Census records	Evelyn Beale's notes from December 1996
Headstones at Millville cemeteries, Aug 1994

 

---

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/8187/chatham/augustus_chatham.html