WEC: "Lived near Clarence for 40 years. Moved to Paradise in 1880."
Paradise Cemetery RecordsWEC: "Killed by a log on the side of the mountain."
Paradise Cemetery RecordsThe Steadman family records several different dates and years of birth for Havilah: 7 JAN 1817, 1818 and 1820. It may be possible that either she has been confused with sister Horatia, whose birth year is recorded as 1820, or that Havilah and Horatia are the same individual, and the middle initial of "H" in Havilah's name actually stands for Horatia.
"Willet Chute, born January 23, 1820, married Susannah, daughter of Ezekiel and Eliza (Dugan) Foster, Jan 22, 1853 and lived some in Granville, and some in Lynn, Massachusetts; died in Nova Scotia March 31, 1875; she went to Philadelphia, 1876, kept a restaurant through the Centennial and did well. After that she went to Michigan and married A.C. Powell of Berlin, Ottowa County, and he died from an injury by a fall in a mill at Rockford, Kent, County, 1880. She then took her little family to Petosky in the northern part of the state, and kept a summer boarding house, where she married Alonzo Bonfeoy, but he left in a year or so and went to Dakota. She removed to Grand Rapids, Kent County, in 1883, and had a bakery, grocery and kept boarders. Because she would not marry him, Charles S. Wernau, a boarder, shot her dead and then himself July 27, 1887, she fifty-six, he fifty-four."
Source: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family
in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
William Edward Chute, published Salem Massachusetts, 1894
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