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Samuel Chaffin
1732–1810
era: colonialsupport: sourcedresearch: incompletepublication: public
which grandparent's branch?
Through Grandma Donna Ruth Lawton
the parent-to-child line from Donna Ruth Lawton (6 hops)
- Donna Ruth Lawton · 1925–1988 — the branch head
- ↑ mother — Lora Ann Humes · 1901–1986 walked provider link
- ↑ father — Willard Humes · 1873–1933 walked provider link
- ↑ father — Jonas Willard Humes · 1844–1897 walked provider link
- ↑ mother — Lucy Chaffin · 1815–1855 walked provider link
- ↑ father — Jonas Chaffin · 1776–1847 walked provider link
- ↑ father — Samuel Chaffin · 1732–1810 walked provider link
check all four grandparent branches
- Jack Benedum Sutphen — no direct path recorded here
- Donna Ruth Lawton — ancestor on this branch
- Don Ray Remington — no direct path recorded here
- Marilyn Lowry — no direct path recorded here
This identifies the family-tree route, not an inherited DNA segment.
parents, marriages and children
- father Robert Chaffin · 1695–1745 — walked provider link
- mother Abigail Davis · 1699–1752 — walked provider link
marriage
Samuel Chaffin & Lucy Darby · 1736–1822
children of this couple (1)
- child Jonas Chaffin · 1776–1847
Children listed here may not be the complete family — this edition follows the founder's blood line; siblings, other marriages and descendants largely live beyond the published record (coverage, not contradiction).
sources and research notes
era ≠ support: “colonial” dates the evidence; “sourced” assesses it — one never derives the other. Attribution distinguishes, never ranks.
- documentary record — FamilySearch L6X3-J8J (retrieved 2026-09-16) · open the provider record — opens a new tab
- spiritual reflection (founder (reserved — his own words) · reserved: personal spiritual reflections (Seiðr-related experiences) will be preserved here in the founder's own words, dated and attributed. Personal importance without biological-descent verification — the lens never upgrades evidence.)
- research status: incomplete — 42 attached FamilySearch sources (harvested 2026-09-18)
- publication: public
identity + address
- internal id: pe18fd47e9d (provider ids are references, not identity)
- ref: familysearch L6X3-J8J
- bnr://skaists.dev/blood/pe18fd47e9d