One error in this information is that Samuel and Nancy Chambers' daughter,
Mary, actually married Henry Raiford Sharp. I have never heard of K. C.
Ribbard. I have a copy of the death certificate for Mary's daughter,
Nancy
(Sharp) Fulghum, noting mother Mary Chambers as well as notations made in
the Sharp family bible indicating the marriage of Mary Chambers in McNairy
County to Henry Raiford Sharp.
Dan Fulghum
Conroe, Texas
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Subject: Re: Chambers family tree
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Although it has been some time since your post, thought I would submit
the
following to you on the chance it was a source you did not yet have
for
you Chambers line:
Original Source: Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Reminiscences of the Early
Settlement and
Early Settlers of McNairy County, Tennessee (Washington, D.
C., Commercial Pub. Co., 1882). Reprinted by Higginson Book Company.
>From reprinted source: page 47
"Samuel Chambers was born in South Carolina, in the year 1784. At an
early
day he moved to Middle Tennessee and married Nancy Mackey, and in
1822
moved to McNairy county, settled on what is called Chambers Creek, in the
south part of this county, and lived in said county until his death, which
occurred in 1858. His first wife died in 1839, and he married a widow,
Watson, but survived her a few years. His children’s names are as follows:
John, Rebecca, Anna, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Samuel and married as
follows:
John Chambers married Rebecca Houston, Rebecca Chambers married R. C.
Houston, Anna Chambers married Jefferson Eclam, Thomas Chambers married
Elizabeth Barnhill, Elizabeth Chambers married John N. Barnhill, Mary
Chambers married K. C. Ribbard, Samuel Chambers married Sarah Arnold.
John Chambers was born 1798, in South Carolina, and was brought to
Middle
Tennessee at an early day; came to McNairy in 1820; in the latter
part of winter he went back to Middle Tennessee (1821) and married Rebecca
Houston, and first settled on Owl Creek, afterwards on Chambers Creek, in
the south part of this county; lived in said county until his death, which
occurred in 1857. His children’s names are as follows: C. L. Chambers,
Lucretia, and Lavina, who married as follows: C. L. Chambers married
Francis
Atkins, Lucretia married O. L. Meeks, Lavinia married W. C. Meeks. John
Chambers’ children are all dead but one, whose name is C. L. Chambers."