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Surnames: Chumley, Chumbley
Classification: Query
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I believe I have read (on this site) that the 'Chomle' you mentioned (seeing at Jamestown) is indeed the first "Chumley/Chumbley" from which all of in the U.S. are descendants of.
Going back to the issue of the Family Bible with so many records, would anyone like to colloborate to try to research what's happened to this book/who is in possesion of it now?
There must be a connection with that branch to the "D W Chumley, Sr. of Oil City LA, owners of the C & C
Drilling/ had a ranch near Caddo Lake at Gray TX" as Patty Henson Chumley has written.
Is anyone already pursuing this? I imagine it would not take a significant amount of time, just a process of looking via public records to see who might be in possession of this book today, or have information as to who would. Then writing query letters explaining what we're hoping to do.
What I'd like to see is that if we could make copies of the Bible, or transcribe information, and then post it to members of this site, so that we can all look at the material. Add onto it. Make a tree of the Chumley/Chumbley family in the US since Jamestown. It's an ambitious project, but it can be done.
I met D W Chumley, Sr. of Oil City LA when I was a child. They owned C & C
Drilling company or some Co. that had something to do with the oil field.
They came to visit us a time or two and had a ranch near Caddo Lake at Gray TX,
which we visited.
Patti Chumley Henson
Linden TX
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Surnames: chumbley, cholmle, phelps, meadows, wilkerson
Classification: Query
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I was going to ask the same question about the records. Just three weeks ago (June 2006), my husband and I were at Historic Jamestowne, VA, the national park which is close to the state-run Jamestown Settlement; Historic Jamestowne will be celebrating its 400th anniversary next year & is in the midst of extensive archeological digging.
I did note the name Robert "Cholmle" who arrived before 1624 aboard The Charity. According to "Hotten's Lists," pp. 218-22, the 1924/5 Muster lists him as living in "the Maine, James City" in January 1624 (In 1924-1925 "James Cittie, excluding the island outside the town, had 124 persons [adults, children, servants, and African Americans], twenty-two houses, three stores, and a church." from 'James Towne in the Words of Contemporaries, 1941). Also the Charity had landed in Plymouth, Mass before going on to Virginia, bringing the first cattle to New England from England. Its captain, William Pierce, also earlier captained the Mayflower. A good web site is http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html
I was struck at Jamestown by names of early residents, names of people found today in my hometown, people who had migrated from Virginia to Kentucky via N.C. and Tenn; familiar family names included: Phelps, Meadows, Johnson, Wilkerson, Smith, and Chumbley.
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Surnames: Chumley, Chumbley
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Does anyone know what happened to the records - Family Bible, records, etc. - mentioned? It would be an invaluable archive to view.
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Surnames: Chumley, Kropet, Redman, Patterson, Huddleston, Martin, McArthur, Bell, Hargrave, Haggard
Classification: Obituary
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From his obituary dated 2/21/1955:
"Sam G. Chumley, 79, who died Friday night at his home, 819 Wainwright, left a rich legacy of family history for his wife and children in the family Bible.
Mr. Chumley had spent the last quarter of a century collecting letters and other documents which traced the Chumley family back to the Pilgrims and the Mayflower.
These he recorded in the old Bible which he left for his wife, Mrs. Bessie Chumley, his eight daughters and four sons.
"He knew the history of America well, but his favorite reading was his Bible," a son said today. "He was very proud of the Chumley family history and wanted to preserve it for us and our families," he added.
Among the highly valued documents in his possession was a letter from the British government to Mr. Chumley's brother-in-law who died 25 years ago.
The brother-in-law had written to England inquiring about land owned by the two families of Chumleys who left there for America with the Pilgrims.
"The letter substantiated the fact that our family once owned a lot of land around London," the son said.
Many years later, members of the families moved from Jamestown, Va., to Texas, settling around San Augustine, Mr. Chumley's grandfather, Lt. John C. Hale, was killed at the Battle of San Jacinto.
It was in San Augustine that Mr. Chumley was born and reared. A carpenter contractor, he built many residences and several commercial buildings in his home city.
He moved to Houston 19 years ago to be near his children after retirement.
A member of the Lindale Church of Christ, Mr. Chumley also held membership in woodmen of the world Lodge 1293 in San Augustine.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Kropet, Mrs. Lois Redman, Mrs. Iris Patterson, Mrs. Wilma Huddleston, Mrs. Ruby Martin, Mrs. Frances McArthur and Mrs. Margie Bell, all of Houston; Mrs. Ovaline Hargrave of Vidor; his sons, Walter, Lesley, Wesley and Garland Chumley, all of Houston; his sister, Mrs. Genie Haggard, Houston; brother, Joe Chumley, San Augustine; 16 grandchildren.
A son, Thomas H. Chumley was killed overseas during World War II.
Funeral services were to be held at 2:30 today in Settegast-Kopf drawing room with Ministers R. J. Stevens and Porter Wilhite officiating. Burial was to be in Forest Park cemetery."
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I thought this attached letter might be of interest to many. Who might Mrs D.W. Chumley, Jr. of Oil City, Louisiana be?
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Surnames: Chumbley
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Edna Chumbley is pictured in the 1928 yearbook of Edinburg College. She is a freshman.