Anthony E Chambers

• General Notes
  • CHAMBERS, ANTHONY E.
    
    Anthony E. Chambers, farmer and raiser of standard bred horses, and veteran of the Civil War, of Clearwater, Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, on November 15, 1846. His parents were Ahimaaz and Jane (Patton) Chambers, both natives of Indiana, where they passed their lives. The grandfather, Anthony Chambers, was a native of Kentucky, and married Nancy Blue, a native of Virginia. The grandfather on the maternal side was Hezekiah E. Patton, a native of North Carolina, who married a Miss Wilson. Ahimaaz Chambers and his wife were the parents of seven children, viz.: Mrs. Nannie B. Craig, of Clearwater, Kan., Mrs. Mary E. Dyer, of Ohio township, Sedgwick county; Anthony E., of Sedgwick county; A. Worth, of Sedgwick county; Mrs. Annie Hamlin, of Newkirk, Okla.; Catharine C., deceased; Jessie F., deceased. The mother of this family died in 1857, and the father in 1890. Anthony E. Chambers remained at home until the summer of 1863, when he enlisted in Company H, Tenth Indiana Cavalry, and served during the war. He was wounded at a battle of South Tunnel, four miles from Gallatin, Tenn., and was mustered out in July, 1865. After the war Mr. Chambers returned to his home in Indiana and remained there until 1867, when he went to Illinois and remained until the fall of 1873. At that time he moved to Sedgwick county, Kansas, and preempted 160 acres of land, where he now lives. On January 1, 1878, Mr. Chambers was married to Miss Releaf E. Phillips, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1855, and came with her parents to Kansas in 1874. One son has been born of this union, Joseph C., born February 4, 1881 and married on September 28, 1902, Miss Belva L. Cook, who was born in Greenwood county, Kansas on February 28, 1884. Miss Cook was a daughter of Thomas B. and Mattie E. (Scott) Cook, both natives of Vermilion county, Illinois. Her father was born September 11, 1857 and her mother April 4, 1861. They were married June 7, 1877, moved to Kansas in 1880, and now live in Ninnescah township, where Mr. Cook lives on a farm. There were five children in the Cook family, viz.: Larkin A., deceased; Estella F., deceased, Mrs. Belva Chambers; Claude E., who lives at home, and one who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chambers have one son, Lloyd W., born May 19, 1906. Mrs. Anthony E. Chambers died December 29, 1888. Anthony E. Chambers in the early days served as constable, until he refused the office and was trustee of the township for three terms. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic Order the Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen, and of the G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican. (History of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county; Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co., 1910, Pages 741-743)