McHAFFIE Family
March 23, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

It is not a very frequent occurrence in the far west to see four 
generations brought together under one roof, to sit down together 
at one long dinner table, to renew and strengthen the tender ties 
of family, love and affiliation and to talk over and review the 
experiences of a long life time.  Such a gathering took place 
last Sunday at the residence of George Hellman, in Montezuma 
place, an eastern suburb of Phoenix where Mrs. Elizabeth McHaffie 
had a very pleasant reunion with her family running down to the 
fourth generation as follows: three daughters and one son, Mrs. 
William Stark of Cripple Creek, Colorado, Mrs. Frank Baum and 
Mrs. George Hellman and Andrew McHaffie, all of Phoenix, four 
granddaughters and four grandsons, Mrs. Emmet Egan of Anaconda, 
Colorado and Miss Pansy Stark, daughters of Mrs. Stark; Mr. 
Joseph Baum, Miss Birdie Baum and master Ben Baum, Mr. Howard 
Hellman, Miss Garnet Hellman and Leo Hellman and three great 
granddaughters the Misses Daisy and Olga Wallace and Miss Hazel 
Egan, granddaughters of Mrs. Stark, the latter being 4 years 
of age.  The only vacancies in the list of descendants of Mrs. 
McHaffie which at the time numbered twenty five were two 
grandsons Harry Baum and Robert Stark.

Mrs. McHaffie was born in Germany near Heidelberg in the year 
1825 and in 1830 came to this country with her parents and 
settled in Pennsylvania, and in 1863 moved to Indiana where on 
November 6, 1845 she was united in marriage with Dr. Joseph 
McHaffie and in 1848 moved to Vermillion County, Illinois 
where she raised her family.  Her husband dying in 1877, Mrs. 
McHaffie lived there until moving to Phoenix about one year 
ago, and there lives continually among the majority of her 
descendants.  It is hoped the remainder who are now here on a 
short visit will decide to locate here to add their company 
to her declining years.


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