Chambers Family Article, 1950

"Chambers Family History Dates Back 3 Centuries"
Article was published 26 Aug. 1950 in the 1950 Centennial Edition of
the Beckley Post-Herald.  Reprinted by permission.

The Chambers family descended from Thomas Chambers, who came to America from
England in the 17th century.

Leroy B. Chambers, the father of James and Joseph Chambers, was one of the 
five sons of James Chambers, who moved from Monroe county in 1829, and 
settled at the mouth of Run Creek in Logan county.  James Chambers was a 
Methodist minister.  Leroy B. Chambers married Dramaias Farmer, from Pulaski
County, Va., and came to Oceana in Wyoming County in 1852.  He built the 
first house in town that year and opened a general store together with
Anthony Lawson, a prominent business man in West Virginia in that day and 
time.

Leroy B. Chambers was the first county clerk of Wyoming county and rode
horseback to Fayetteville, in Fayette county, to take the oath of office.  
In 1884, he was elected to the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature 
and served during the last session of that body in Wheeling.  At that 
session, Joseph Chambers served as a page to the lower house.

--Eight Children

He had five sons and three daughters: Lee, James, Joseph, George, and 
Anthony; May, Brooke, and Rosa.

Lee Chambers came to Raleigh County in 1880, married Martha, the eldest 
daughter of Capt. William Turner, and settled on Sand Lick.  He had three
sons and one daughter: Okey, Pierce, and the late Dr. Virgil Chambers, of
Huntington, and Stelle, who married and now resides in Somerset, Pa.  
Pierce, the second son, now lives in New Martinsville, W. Va.  Lee Chambers
died June 20, 1901, and is buried on Sand Lick.

James Chambers married Viola Cook, daughter of Hartley Cook, of Oceana, and
came to Raleigh County in 1888.  He too, settled on Sand Lick.  He had three
sons - Ernest, of Huntington, Grover, of Oceana, and R. L. Chambers, of 
Dameron.  James Chambers died in Nov. 1941 and is buried in the Chambers
cemetery on Sand Lick.

Joseph Chambers married Eva, daughter of Floyd Cook, of Big Cub Creek in
Wyoming County.  He came to Raleigh county on March 25, 1889, and settled 
on Sand Lick.  He had eight sons and two daughters: Bernard, George, 
Herbert, Theodore R., and the late Dr. R. W. Chambers, of Beckley, Dr. Harry
D. Chambers, of Huntington, Roy L. and Carl Chambers, of Dameron, and Mrs.
James R. Jarrell, of Glen Daniel, and Mrs. Buell Stover, of Harper.

Joseph Chambers died Sept. 26, 1943, and is buried on Sand Lick.  George and 
Anthony T. Chambers were born and reared at Oceana and spent their entire 
lives there.  Anthony died in 1916 and George in 1938.

Mrs. Veda Chambers, of Oceana, is the widow of Anthony L. Chambers.

May Chambers, the eldest daughter of Leroy B. Chambers, married J. B. 
Ellison, of Beckley, and lived and died in the old Matthew Ellison house,
which stood about where the Beckley Drug Company is now located.

Brooke, the second daughter of Leroy Chambers, married the late Judge L. L.
Chambers, of McDowell county and lived in Huntington for many years, where
she died in 1930.


Submitted by Melissa Bailey Duggins <mduggins@lexcominc.net>

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