According to info uncovered recently concerning Robert Chamlee (son of
Wm & Dorcas), he was running for public office in Cherokee County, was
ambushed, shot and killed. (I have tried to find out something about
this event but have been unsuccessful, as have others) -- Sarah Dillard
in Chatsworth, GA, has an old paper that suggests he was running for
sheriff. . .
Robert Chamlee had married Mary Elizabeth Haley. They had several
children: #1 died young,
#2 died young,
#3 James Monroe Chamlee b ca 1852 m Barbara Anne Pendley,
#4 George Washington Chamlee b 1854 m Ellen Early and Emma Mashburn,
#5 Margo Chamlee m John Franklin
#6 Harriet Missouri ("Zoo") b 1856 m William Pendley.
After Robert was killed, Mary Elizabeth Haley Chamlee married Abraham
Moss and, to the best of my knowledge, had no children. However, a Moss
descendant sent me an extensive paper on the Moss family and it shows
several children, but in comparing them to the children of Robert and
Mary, they are the same, so they would not be offspring of Mr. Moss.
Legend has it the widow Mary met Mr. Moss at a "log rolling."
One of my notes says Mary and Abraham Moss are "found in the 1860 and
1870 Pickens County, GA, census."