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Hello...I havn't been on for awhile but I am still searching for my line of
Chambers..These were some of the earliest I could find. I found alot of Chambers in the
S.C. area but could not link any of them:
1850 Census for Chambers in Edgefield, SC Chambers B. * 4 South
Carolina pg0009b.txt14A 36 Chambers F. W. 45 South Carolina
pg0009b.txt14A 38 Chambers John R. 6 South Carolina
pg0009b.txt14A 40 Chambers M. E. 2 South Carolina
pg0009b.txt14A 37 Chambers Martha 21
Hope this helps someone else beside myself...
Descendants of Felix Walker Chambers
1 Produced by Legacy on 27 Feb 2007
First Generation
1. Felix Walker Chambers-[1] was born about 1811 in SC and died from 1860 to 1866 in
probably Randolph
County, AL.
General Notes: The first appearance that I've found of Felix and Martha is the 1850
census of Edgefield
County, SC, page 014, house # 204.
F.W. Chambers age 45 wagon maker born SC
Martha 21 born SC
John R. 6 SC
B.Y. (male) 4 SC
M.E. (female) 2 SC
By 1860 the family has moved to Randolph County, AL, page 634, hs. 57.
F. W. Chambers age 49 farm hand born SC
Martha A. 31 house wife SC
John R. 16 farm hand SC
Baily Y 14 SC
Mary E. 11 SC
W.C. 9 SC
Albert T. 7 SC
Martha J. 6 SC
Caroline 4 SC
David 1 SC
This is the same county Henry and Martha Hill moved to from Fayette County, GA. This Hill
family
would be forever connected with our Chambers.
The 1866 Randolph County state census does not list Felix or F.W. Chambers. It does list
Martha A.
Chambers just 2 houses below Mary Hill. On the 1860 census they were 3 houses below Mary.
Felix has
probably died. I have found no military records for him but it is possible he was killed
during the Civil
War. The number of children listed is the correct number for Felix and Martha.
Wallace State College in Hanceville has the Randolph Co., AL Tax Assessments for 1865-66.
F. W.
Chambers is listed as paying taxes on the NW1/4 of NW1/4 of S34 T20 R11. He could have
already died
by this point and Martha paid taxes. All Randolph County Probate Records were destroyed in
a fire in
1897 per Randolph Co. website.
Homestead records show Benjamin Hill (possibly our Henry Hill's brother) homesteaded
this land Feb. 1,
1860. No Homestead records were found for Felix Chambers.
Martha and the children moved to Lauderdale County and on January 26, 1868 she married
Charles C.
Pierson (Pearson).
The 1870 census of Lauderdale Co., AL, page 569, hs 524 lists;
Charles Pierson age 32 farmer born AL
Martha 42 keeping house born SC
Charles Bayle 23 works in cotton mills born AL
Wm Pierson 19 " " " " born SC
Albert 16 " SC
Martha 15 " SC
Caroline 14 " SC
Davis 12 " SC
Newton 9 SC
John 6 SC
The children are listed as Pierson but they are indeed our Chambers kids.
Newton and John were also born in AL, not SC.
On page 545 a Bayles Chambers, age 24 is listed as a farm hand living with Jessee Carroll.
I'm not sure if
this is our Baily Chambers or if the Charles Bayle listed with Charles and Martha is ours.
I haven't been
able to locate John R. after 1866.
By 1880 Martha and family have moved to Winston County, AL. Page 552 of the census shows;
Martha Chambers
Have a Blessed Day,
Jon Chambers
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