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Abner T. Chaffin was the first son of my ggg grandfather Elias Chaffin. Abner was born in
1832 in Georgia and lived in the Marion Co., AL / Itawamba Co., MS area by 1851, where he
bought a farm at 19 years of age, that year marrying Nancy Gosa.
In 1858 he purchased land in Alabama, as did his brother Calvin C. Chaffin, his Uncle
Joseph Chaffin and his dad, Elias.
However he moved to Arkansas before the war, when he was mustered into service for the CSA
in Little Rock. He was wounded in battle at Shiloh.
After the war he returned to Cache Township, Greene Co., AR,
where he resumed farming. At one time he owned 800 acres of land there. He was quite
successful and took much interest in politics and the welfare of his community. He married
a second time in 1881 to Susan Croft.
I am interested in Abner because I have other information of him being somebody's
"rich Uncle" living in Arkadelphia c.1901, who was a collector of fine art.
Most of my Chaffins settled in Arkansas around the Clark, Howard and Sevier County area,
so him being in Arkadelphia seems right. I think he died in Greene Co. so he must have
moved back before his death in 1907.
Would like to correspond with any descendants of Abner T.
e-mail me: LaneChaffin(a)msn.com