From: Polly Murphy <pollydear(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:14:59 -0800 (PST)
To: rsarnold(a)macatawa.org
Subject: Chambers
Hi there,
My hotmail email account won't let me talk to folks
from the RootsWeb groups... so I moved an address over
to here so that I can speak.
About the Chambers book... I might be interested in it
since it accounts for Chambers folks who came from
where mine are known to have been.
From the 1850 Wright County, Missouri census comes
this information about Chambers orphans who are listed
as being from somewhere in Tennessee:
1. age 21, George W. Chambers living in the Lunsford
house and married to Zelphia Lunsford. He died in the
Civil War.
2. age 18, William Singleton Chambers lived in the
Julius Huff home. He married Delcina Weaver and also
died in the Civil War.
3. age 13/14, Jacob B. (my great-great-great
grandfather). He first married Amanda ? and then
Elizabeth Stacy. He and Elizabeth had one known child:
Andrew/Anderson Jackson Chambers born in 1871. Jacob
lived in the William Kitchen Benton home. Andrew grew
up in the Catherine Kelly Stacy home in Newton County,
Arkansas. Then nothing is known of where Jacob and
Elizabeth were. Andrew married Mary Ellen Baker and
they had 4 daughters: Merica Elizabeth, Miley
Catherine, Mary Mae, and Lilly. Merica married John
Murphy and they lived in Tennessee where my father was
born in Whitfield. Then they moved to Pope County,
Arkansas.
4. Elizabeth Chambers, age 13/14 lived in the William
Franklin home. There was a lawsuit between them that
was missing from the courthouse. I don't know what
happened to her.
There was another Chambers family in Wright County who
had an Andrew Jackson born in 1871 just like mine. But
he grew up to have about a dozen children with a
Simmons woman and was a Baptist minister. I wrote to
the lady who put the story in the Wright County book
but she never answered my letter.
So far noone has ever heard of my little Chambers
group or knows how they happened to be in Missouri
from Tennessee. A Stacey cousin believes that they
might have also lived in Monroe County, Indiana and
also Kentucky and Georgia. I just can't connect them
and have no idea who their parents might have been.
Since my hotmail won't let me chat with the Chambers
researchers... could you please forward this post to
them?
Thank you,
Polly
How much is she asking for the book?