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Jeremiah M. Chambers April 6, 1846 ------------October 6, 1934
The Sidney Daily News ------------Tuesday October 9, 1934
Funeral Rites Held For Aged County Farmer, Jeremiah Chambers Buried at
New Breman Died Saturday Afternoon
Funeral services for Jeremiah Chambers, 88 retired farmer of Loramie township
and former manager of Short's Landing were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00
O'clock from the home of his daughter, Mrs George Short at Short's Landing
Ft. Loramie.
Burial was made in the New Breman cemetery.
The aged man died Saturday afternoon about 4:00 O'clock at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. F.E. Brown on the Findley Road, Lima after an illness
of three weeks.
A greater part of his life was spent as a farmer in the Ft. Loramie community,
but he was probably best know as the manager of the present Short's Landing
which he conducted for about forty years. Following his retirement, it
was taken over by his son in law George Short. He was a great fisherman
and sportsman and was a member of the Ft. Loramie Borrowed Time Club.
His death occurred while he was enjoying a visit of several weeks at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Brown and with another daughter in Lima, Mrs.
Grace Shepherd and Mrs. Nora Shepherd.
The surviving children are four daughters and two sons. Mrs. George Short,
Ft. Loramie, Mrs Jesse Shepherd, Mrs F.E. Brown, Mrs. Cary Shepherd, Lima;
Elmer and Harry Chambers of Ft. Loramie.