VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
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Henry Watkins EUerson, who married Mary
Patteson; all living- in Richmond. Mrs.
Ellerson was a daughter of Henry Clay
Watkins. who was born in Powhatan
county. X^irginia, and died in Richmond,
November i6, 1872. He was a tobacco
broker all of his active years in Richmond,
where he lived from the age of thirteen
years until his death. He married Malvina
Haskins Day, and had seven children, of
whom the survivors are Ida, of previous
mention, Ellen, Irvin. Mattie, and Henry
Clay, Jr. Malvina Haskins Day was the
daughter of John Henry and Martha Finney
(Haskins) Day. Ijoth natives of Powhatan
countv. \'irginia. she born at the Haskins
homestead at Mount Laurel. John Plenry
Day was well educated, a college graduate,
and in later life moved to Tennessee, there
becoming a planter and owning land but
two miles from the home of Andrew Jack-
son, the two being close friends. One of the
sons of John Henry Day, Edward Henry
Day, received an appointment from Andrew
Jackson to a first lieutenancy in the United
States army, connected at his death in i860,
with the Third Artillery. Aaron and Mal-
vina Haskins Day were the two children of
John Henry Day who were born in \'ir-
ginia.
Mrs. Ida (Watkins) Ellerson survives her husband, a resident of Richmond, her pres- ent home having been her abode for sixty- three years. She is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames.
John Chaffin Easley. ^Member of a Vir- ginia famil}' of honorable record, John Chaf- fin Easley, vice-president and secretary of R. B. Chaffin iH: Company, Incorporated, of Richmond, \'irginia, descends in a line con- nected with numerous other distinguished \^irginia names. John S. Easley, grand- father of John Chaffin Easley, a native of Halifax county, Virginia, was a soldier in the American army in the second war with Great Britain, and died in West Virginia, aged seventy-eight years. John S. Easley married .Agnes Clark XMiite, born in Pitt- sylvania county, \'irginia, and had seven children, two of whom are living at the present time. Isaac Howson. of \\'est Vir- ginia, and Edwin Hamilton, of Brooklyn, New York.
(II) Dr. William D. Easley. son of John S. and .\gnes Clark ( White ) luisley, was
liorn in Giles county, \'irginia, December
ig. 1831, died in West X'irginia. He was
educated for the medical profession and was
engaged in practice throughout his active
years, his death occurring while conducting
such pursuits in West Virginia. He was a
gentleman of loyal and patriotic nature, and
the realization of war between the states
found him enlisted for service in the Amelia
County \'olunteers. Dr. William D. Easley
married Ann Elizabeth, born in Amelia
county. Virginia. October 17, 1841, died
May 29, 1907, daughter of John Booker and
Susan Adeline (Willson) Chaffin. Her par-
ents were natives of Amelia county, and
there John Booker Chaffin was an exten-
sive planter, owning more than one hundred
slaves. John Booker and Susan Adeline
Chaffin had three children who grew to ma-
turity : .Ann Elizabeth, of previous mention,
married Dr. William D. Easley, Richard B.,
and Martha Giles. Of the eight children of
Dr. William D. Easley, three died in in-
fancy, and a fourth, Richard Booker, died
fune 24, 1904. The others are : John Chaf-
fin, of whom further: Edwin Hamilton, of
lUue Field, \\'est \'irginia ; Agnes E., mar-
ried Matthew Louden West, deceased, of
Richmond. \'irginia ; Susie E., married
Joseph Gary Eggleston, of Amelia Court
I louse. \'irginia.
(Ill) John Chaffin Easley, son of Dr. William D. and Ann Elizabeth (Chaffin) Easley. was born in Amelia county, Vir- ginia. October 15, 1862, and when he was a lad of eleven years accompanied his parents to Brooklyn, New York. In this place his education, begun in Virginia, was con- tinued, and soon after his return to his native state, Richmond becoming the family home, he became associated with the firm in which he now holds high official position, R. 15. Chaffin & Company. Remaining with the company through its period of continu- ous growth and expansion to its present vast dimensions, better preparation for the responsible duties that are his could not have been obtained. R. B. Chaffin & Com- pany, Incorporated, bearing the name of Mr. Easley 's one maternal uncle, advertise as brokers and dealers in real estate, and in its line is one of the largest concerns in the state. The office of the company is at Main and Twelfth streets, Richmond, and here Mr. Easley can usually be found busily en- gaged in the direction of some of the details
