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ONTARIO, CANADA, on 25 Jan 1893; he was 66.
SAMUEL LOST HIS FATHER WHEN HE WAS ONLY 14 MONTHS OLD. LATER HIS MOTHER REMARRIED
BUT HIS NEW FATHER SOON DIED. HE BECAME A SURROGATE SON OF BENJAMIN TETT WHO MAY
HAVE SET SAMUEL UP WITH A MILLING BUSINESS IN THE RIDEAU CANAL AREA. THIS MILL
OPERATED AT LEAST UNTIL 1870 AND LATER WAS KNOWN AS HOGGS MILL. 33
HE MOVED FROM NEWBORO AND SETTLED FIRST IN GLENELG TOWNSHIP, GREY COUNTY. IN AN 1865
DIRECTORY OF GREY COUNTY SAMUEL BENJAMIN CHAFFEY IS DESCRIBED AS RUNNING A SAWMILL
ON THE SAUGEEN RIVER, NORTH EAST OF DURHAM. HE WAS ALSO AN ASSISTANT REEVE AND
MAGISTRATE IN THE TOWNSHIP, AND HIS PROPERTY WAS LOCATED IN CONCESSION 3, LOT 28. THE
1881 CENSUS OF CANADA LISTS HIS OCCUPATION AS DRUGGIST.
On 14 Nov 1849 when SAMUEL BENJAMIN was 23, he married MARY ELIZABETH KILBORN,
daughter of LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN KILBORN, in NEWBORO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Born on 27
Aug 1829 in BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA. MARY ELIZABETH died in HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO,
CANADA, in 1894; she was 64. Buried in LOCKS CEMETERY, HUNTSVILLE.
DAUGHTER OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN AND ELIZABETH BALDWIN KILBORN. BOTH DIED IN
NOVAR, ONTARIO JUST NORTH OF HUNTSVILLE WHERE THEY ARE BURIED. HER FATHER WAS BORN IN
AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP IN 1793. HE WAS A QUARTERMASTER DURING THE WAR OF 1812. WHEN THE
WAR WAS OVER, HE MARRIED AND WENT INTO BUSINESS AS A GENERAL MERCHANT. SOON, THE
KILBORNS MOVED TO NEWBORO WHERE THEY WERE NEIGHBORS OF BENJAMIN TETT. JOHN BECAME
INVOLVED IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY WITH HIS OWN MILL (CROSBY MILL) CLOSE TO BEDFORD
MILLS. AFTER A DECADE, HE SOLD HIS MILL TO JOHN CHAFFEY (b. 1820). 34
They had the following children:
184 i. JOHN (1851-1937)
185 ii. ELIZABETH ELMA (1853-1910)
186 iii. GEORGE (1855-1916)
187 iv. WILLIAM (1858-1931)
188 v. SAMUEL BENJAMIN (1860-1860)
189 vi. FREDRICK GEORGE (1863-1946)
190 vii. MARY ISABELLA (1864-)
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