Obituary of Leroy Erastus CHAMBERS, Crawford County, Illinois Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Admire Leroy Erastus Chambers Note: I have no connection to this family. I'm just posting an Obit that was sent to me by Barbara Dix who is transcribing old news articles for the website. All known information about this obituary including dates, locations, and newspaper are posted here, if known. Leroy Erastus, son of Charles F. and Mary Elrod Chambers, was born Sept 3, 1848 near Chambersburg, Orange County, Indiana and departed this life at the home of Everett and Alice Chambers, Dec. 12, 1930,aged 82 years, 2 months and 29 days. Before he was 3 years old Leroy's mother died but her place was filled after a time, by a kind and understanding step mother, Mary Lindley, of Ball District, just east of here. In 1861, the Chambers family moved to this Crawford County, Illinois from Indiana. Here they built a home on the farm where their children grew up and a daughter, Flora still lives. At the age of 21, Leroy Chambers and Lucetta Newlin were united in marriage and established a farm home for themselves, on land east of Annapolis now known as the Henry Cox place. They resided here a few years where their oldest son, Oscar was born and they prospered in many years, then deciding to do for themselves, they built a comfortable home on Chambers lane. Here the other 7 children were born and raised. The rise of Leroy Chambers in the cattle business was a phenomenal sucess. He acquired more land and many advanced improvements until his place was considered one of the best in this part of the country. In this year 1896, L. E. Chambers went West to join his son, Oscar, and daughter, Estella, and resided there, engaged in the carpenter business in mining districts of Colorado, until the spring of 1924 when he returned here and has since made his home with Alice and Everett Chambers. He has been in poor health since early fall of this year but seemed as well as common at bed time on the night of demise. He passed away peacefully and we feel he is at rest. Leroy Chambers was preceeded in death by 6 half sisters and 1 half brother, being, Mrs. Angelus(?) Guyer, and Mrs.Nora Dix, Mrs. Oraelta Cox, Mrs. Effie Layton, Mrs. Minta Guyer, and Will Chambers. The surviving brother and sister are Mrs. Flora Bennett and Charles Chambers ll. All of these brothers and sisters resided in this, their home community. The wife Lucetta and one grandson, Arlow Young passed out of the immediate family before Leroy Chambers. All the children and 8 grandchildren survive, they are 6 sons and two daughters. Oscar of Denver Colorado, Mrs. Estella Young of Robinson, Ill., Everett, Elmer, and Alice of this neighborhood, Arthur of Wichita, Kansas, Roscoe and Earl of Flat Rock vicinity. ***************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproducd in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ***************************************************************** Contributed by: Jim Admire