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| Birth: | 15 May 1756 in Rockbridge Co VA |
| Death: | 25 Jun 1857 in Jefferson Co IN |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | David CHAMBERS b. 1725 in Scotland |
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| Residence: 1779 Rutherford Co NC |
| Residence: 1790 Tennessee |
| Residence: 1794 Kentucky |
| Residence: 1797 Illinois |
| Residence: 1799 Shelbyville KY |
| Residence: 1809 Jefferson Co IN |
| Burial: White River Cemetery, Kent IN |
| Military Service: 1777 Continental Army |
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Individual:
Information about this family group from "Trails of the Centuries" , a history of the Chambers family in America.
Alexander served in the Revolutionary War.
He was also a Baptist minister.
The following piece is an obituary for Alexander Chambers, the son of David. This comes from the 1857 Minutes of the Coffee Creek Baptist Association (IN). The inserts in brackets are from William D. Chambers book, Trails of the Centuries.
"Departed this life on the 29th day of June, 1857, Alexander Chambers, in the one hundred and second year of his age. He was born in Rockbridge Co., Virginia, on the 15th day of May, 1756, and at the age of
twenty-three years [1779], moved to Rutherford Co., North Carolina. At the age of thirty-four [1790] moved to East Tennessee; four years afterward [1794], moved to Kentucky, and three years after [1797], he
moved to Illinois. On that trip he got lost from the company of movers, under the following circumstances: He went out to shoot a buffalo from a herd that was in view, and after having killed one and taken from the carcass as much as he could carry, it being about sunset, he missed the trail, there being no roads. Darkness set in, he traveled all night, and for sixteen days he wandered alone in a then entire wilderness. The company after stopping one day and searching for him, moved on supposed that he had been killed by the Indians. On the seventeenth day, the Indians found him nearly starved. They took him to their camp, placed him in the care of an old squaw, who fed and nursed him for a few days, and then sent two of their warriors with him to his family. He had been from them twenty-seven days. After living in that place [Illinois], he moved back to Kentucky [1799]; lived there twelve years [10 years], then moved
to Indiana in 1809, and lived in sight of the same place for forty-seven years, and died at the age of one hundred and one years, one month and fourteen days. He was a member of the Baptist church over sixty years. In the year 1816 he was set apart by said Church to preach the Gospel, in which calling he labored till within a few years of the close of his life his health and mind failed. He made very many great sacrifices for the cause of Christ, which he loved with all his heart, and of which he often spoke to the latest period of his earthly existence. He now rests from all his labors."
At the bottom of the photocopied page is hand-written, we don't know by whom:
"Alexander Chambers was mustered into service as a soldier of the Revolution under Colonel W. Avery and early in 1777 he was transferred to the Continental Army of Virginia."
Compliments of Polly TurnerRutherford Co., NC. Alexander Chambers to Ann Monroe on September 17, 1789; witnesses were Thomas Lattimore and Isaac Whiteside.
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- Title: Marriages North Carolina to 1825
Media: Electronic
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