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I still can not locate my Charles Chambers in the 1850 Census. His wife to be was Margaret
Keith and she was living with her family (John Keith was head) in Subdivision 61 in 1850
in Knox Co. Indiana.
Charles Chambers and Margaret Keith were married on 28 Jan 1857 in Knox Co., Indiana and
this can be verified in the Index to Marriage Record 1854-1920, Book-E, and page 238. I
would be happy to send for a copy of the original if would include any additional
information.
Their first child, Margaret Althea Chambers, was born in Dec 1857. I can’t locate my
Charles and Margaret in 1860 Census. However, there is a family living in Widner, Knox
Co. Indiana in the 1860 Census named Charles and Margaret Chambers with Cross Roads as the
town. This Charles was born in 1832 in Kentucky. They have a child named Nancy. I could
not locate this family in the 1970 Census but they reappear in 1880 in Smith, Greene with
Nancy now 22 and a son, Charles 12. By 1880 my Charles had died.
My Charles was in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War. He entered the
51st Regime of the Indiana Infantry on 22 Oct. 1861 as a private for 3 years. He was
captured at the battle of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. He was held in Libby Prison
until the war was over. He was discharged 17 Dec 1864 at Nashville, Tennessee. His
discharge papers indicate that his age was 28 at this time, making 1836 as his year of
birth. . It also indicates that he was born in Knox Co. Indiana. However, the 1970 Census
makes his date of birth 1831. Margaret’s date of birth is consistently 1835. In the 1870
Census Charles, Margaret, Althea and Everett were living in Freelandville, IN.
On 8 Jan 1870, a neighbor, Henry and Joanna Heithecker, sold a small plot of land on their
farm in Freelandville, Widner, Knox Co for $1.00 and respect for the dead to Charles
Chambers to be designated as the Keith Graveyard. I have a copy of the deed with
coordinates but family members in Indiana have not been successful in locating this piece
of property. It was received for the record on 3 Feb 1870 and is recorded as a Warrant
Deed in Record K, book 2, page 394. I do not know why it was designated as the Keith
graveyard and not the Chambers graveyard.
Charles was living in Freelandville, Widner, Knox Co., Indiana with his family. In 1870,
this included his son, Edward Everett Chambers, born 22 December 1867. Everett was my
great grandfather on my mother’s side and I had the pleasure of knowing him since he lived
until 1953 when I was 17 years old.
According to family records, Charles Chambers was struck by lightning on 05 Feb 1871 and
subsequently died from a heart attach. Is it possible to find an obituary? This does not
seem like an everyday occurrence.
I can not locate Margaret or the children in 1880 Census but she is living with her
widowed daughter, Althea Thompson in Harrison, Vigo in 1900 Census. Althea had married in
1882 and her husband, Wm. H. Thompson was deceased before the 1900 Census. They had 4
living children.
Everett, my great grandfather married Mary Celeste Armstrong on 22 Mar 1889 in Grant,
Greene Co., IN.
Margaret died in Worthington, IN in 1921.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
Barbara Cissone
barbara.cissone(a)verizon.net