Hi. My name is June Beckwith and I am a Puffer. Your GTGrandfather, Chancellor Livingston "Chauncy" Puffer was the oldest s/o of Charles and Margaret (Livingston) Puffer. Charles was born 1831 in Owego, Tioga Co. NY.
He was the youngest son of Ira John and Charity (Pangborn) Puffer. Charity was Ira's 2nd wife. My GGTGrandfather, Solomon Puffer, was "their" oldest son.
Solomon and Charles left Seneca, Ontario Co. NY together and came west in 1854. They settled in Lagrange co. IN where sister, Arvilla (Puffer) Nelson lived. Charles and Margaret eventually went on to St Joseph Co. MI where sister's Olive (Puffer) Sloan and Roxanne (Puffer) Wood had settled years earlier.
Charles enlisted in civil war, and if you do a yahoo search on his name or even mine, it will bring you to his enlistment info and a picture of he and Margaret.
Chauncy was born in Seneca, Ontario Co. and first married Delilah "Della" Gilbert, d/o of John and Mary Gilbert, in Fairgrove, Tuscola Co. MIon 2/20/1877. John and mary were divorced.
Della is sister Lydia Gilbert who married Charles Henry Puffer. I have pictures of Charles Henry and Lydia, and if Della looked anything like her sister, she was absolutely beautiful. Lydia, in her younger years is an absolute carbon copy of Robin Scorpio who is a character on the daytime soap, General Hospital. Charles and Lydia were married 9/26/1877.
Years ago I was in contact with a descendant of Chauncy and Della's through their daughter, Lulu. But, since that time they moved and i have no idea where to.
There is a Puffer genealogyu book written by a distant cousin, Charles Nutt. Charles Puffer is the last Puffer in the book. I have in the last 16 years pretty much put a lot of missing pieces together. I knew that Chauncy had a 2nd marriage, but I was under the impression that he married a woman by the name of Carrie. I had the feeling that info was wrong when it was passed on to me because Stanley Puffer was married to Carrie. Most of Charles and Margaret's kids migrated to lower Michigan. Charles and margaret are both buried in Fairgrove, Tuscola co. MI, but one of them died in Genesse co, and I think it was Margaret.
I would appreciate all info you have on the family, and welcome to your world of Puffer cousin's.
You may contact me at
beckpuff54@aol.com. You can aalso look up my other Puffer posts on both Ancestry and Rootsweb message boards.
Warm Regards,
June L. Beckwith
ps. I now remember that I was told that Lulu (Luella) had a brother that was living at the time of her death and his name was Gilbert Livingston. I could never put two and two together....but maybe this is your Albert Livingston, and he took his dad's middle name/Grandmother's maiden name. the only think I have found out about the Livingston line is that Margaret's father was supposed to have been from Canada. I do not know how accurate this is. There were other Livngston's living in Wayne, Ontario, Seneca and Genesse co's in NY. But I never researched any firther as livingston was not of my line.