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Now that we have heard from the Official Chambers Expert my day is
complete!
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert and Naomi Emmich <emmich(a)bendnet.com>
To: CHAMBERS-L(a)rootsweb.com <CHAMBERS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 11:55 AM
Subject: TN Campbell MO Cole MO Texas
I wish this message to be an apology to the query of Steve Yerby
I disagree that the use of the CHAMBERS-L should be to confuse...
> I thought I would throw this in to confuse the issue! He He He
>
Perhaps I can save researchers for this family a little time here.
Let's present a few points in an effort to clarify rather than confuse:
The book by Frances Chambers Paynter is full of oral tradition, a fine
"to-do" list for further research, but it has some confusing weaknesses...
> According to "Frances Chambers Paynter" book "The Chambers Family,
>Descendents of Edmund Chambers" She writes the following:
>
>William Chambers Jr. Son of William and Rachel Chambers,
Rachel was only nine years old at this time
>Son of Edmund
>Chambers. b. 1790 in Campbell County, NC
there is no Campbell Co NC, never has been. Frances may mean Campbell Co
TN, but that jurisdiction did not form until 1806
Edmund as father of a William Sr. is oral tradition... Frances' book
says "We think the children of Edmund were..."
She thinks about the descendants of Edmund and she thinks about the
ancestors, but there is not documentation for either. A family Bible for
Elisha Chambers who died 1859 in Breathitt Co KY shows he was a son of
Edmund. To my knowledge NO OTHER descendants of Edmund have been proved
this well.
>d. 4/24/4/24/1864 Source: Census
>1850 Texas County, MO.
this citation may belong to some other data, rather than the above set
please refer to Steve Yerby's query for Texas County information
>Moved from Campbell County to Cole County, MO in 1824
>then to Centertown, MO Number of children 12.
this overlooks the marriage in what was to become Marion Co TN, see below
Pension records indicate a large number of Campbell Co people lived here
for a time before continuing on to Missouri.
>
>Married to Elizabeth Metcalf b. 1794 in NC m. 1812 in Lookout Mountain,
>Marion County, TN d. 6/10/1876 in Cole County, MO buried in Centertown,
Cole
>County, MO
Marion Co TN formed 1816, as Steve Yerby's query shows, it was at the
time of this marriage still Indian Territory.
>
>children:
>
>William Samuel b. 1/17/1813 16 children
> Elizabeth b. 1814 TN
>Ezekiel b. 1816 TN 10 children
>Julius b. 2/1/1818 TN 8 children
>Jane b. 1819 TN
>Sarah Margaret b. 1825 Cole County, MO
>Mary b. 1827 5 children
>David L. b. 1824 5 children
>Rachel b. 1830
>James K b. 1831
>Joshua b. 1/3/1833
>John Nelson b. 3/7/1837
>
> There is a lot more information in the book. I am sure that many
people
>have a lot more information in depth.
>
> He was my GGgrandfather's brother.
Ron Riley's ggg grandmother was named in a probate settlement in MO found
by Josephine G. Morrow
Macon Co MO records naming CHAMBERS heirs of Rachel Morrow:
Jackson Chambers of Adair County, Missouri, James Phillips and Ruth his
wife of Macon County Missouri, Moses Chambers of Moniteau Co Missouri,
Philip Hootes and Susan his wife of the State of Tennessee, Jeremiah
Chambers of the State of Georgia
We notice the court documents of Macon Co MO 1848 do not show Ron's gg
grandfather Jackson Chambers to have a brother named William Chambers in
1848, even though the William Chambers mentioned in the query of Steve
Yerby did not leave a probate in Cole Co MO until 1864.
To Steve and others researching CHAMBERS of Cole Co MO and Campbell Co
TN, I suggest glancing through the oral traditions presented by Frances
Chambers Paynter, then off to the library with you to do some original
research based on those thoughts. Some are good, some are not so strong.
Adding her data base to your genealogy files, will as Ron suggests, be
confusing!
Let's use the List for better purposes. Let's try to get some reliable
documentation into the archive files of this CHAMBERS-L.
Naomi