Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkObits/12193 Surname: ANDERSON, CHAFFEY ------------------------- CHAFFEY (Edmund K) 1881 - 1935 Edmund K. CHAFFEY obituary - Source unknown - probably published in a Superior news paper in the late winter or early spring of 1935: --------------------E. K. CHAFFEY, Pioneer, Dies Son of Founder of Chaffey Settlement Buried TuesdayEdmund K CHAFFEY, 54, former resident of Foxboro and a member of pioneer family who long resided in Superior, died recently after a long illness at his home in Chili (Clark Co.), WI. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Marshfield and burial was in a cemetery there. Mr CHAFFEY was long a resident of Superior coming here in 1886 with his parents and residing here until 1919 when he moved to Medford, WI. In 1932 he purchased a farm at Chili where he resided until the time of his death. He served for a number of years as school clerk at Chaffey and later was chairman of the school board there.His father, George CHAFFEY, was the founder of the Chaffey settlement located near state highway 35 , about 30 miles from Superior. It was 1898 when Mr CHAFFEY received the first homestead there. The old farm, where the family once resided, still stands about 10 miles south of Manitou Falls on the highway. Chaffey SettlementGeorge CHAFFEY arrived in Superior in 1886 from Port Huron, MI and for a number of years served as foreman at the George L Brooks brickyard in East End. He later was a foreman at the steel plant brickyards in Billings Park. When the CHAFFEY family moved to the settlement they were the first family to reside there. Later several neighbors and Mr. CHAFFEY's brother removed there taking up homesteads. At one time the settlement numbered over 300 persons as residents. Now it has about 30 families.Chaffey received its name at the time the post office department established a star route post office there. That was about 1900. the mail was brought over by carrier from Foxboro, but later a rural mail route supplanted the postoffice branch. George CHAFFEY's brother, John CHAFFEY, was the first postmaster of Chaffey and served in that capacity for 10 years.SurvivorsSurvivors are his wife and three children, Cecil, Catherine, and Earl; one sister, Mrs Charles ANDERSON, Foxboro; one brother Samuel B CHAFFEY, Duluth. S B CHAFFEY was for years the assistant custodian of the federal building in Superior, being transferred to Duluth at the time of the erection of their new federal building. NOTE: The foregoing was transcribed from a photocopy of a newspaper article which a cousin in Superior, WI had, but there was nothing to indicate the name of the paper or the exact date.