Biography of James Chambers, pages 976 / 977.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

James Chambers, deceased, was born in Loudoun County, Va., near Harper’s 
Ferry, Sept. 3, 1787, a son of William Chambers, also a native of Virginia, 
of English descent.  He was married in 1811 to Sarah Barrack, and soon after 
moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and settled in the woods with Indians and 
wild animals for neighbors. Subsequently he moved to Carroll County, Ohio, 
where he followed farming till the fall of 1844, when he came to De Kalb 
County and settled on section 15, Wilmington Township, making another home 
in the woods, where he lived till Sept. 15, 1860.  His wife died July 2, 
1881.  They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  They had a 
family of eleven children, seven of whom are living---Lucinda, Catherine, 
Melinda, Robert, Mary, James and William.  Lucinda is the widow of Samuel 
Hankins, and has had four children, three living.  Melinda married A.T. 
Packer, and has had seven children; five are living.  James married Sarah 
Griffith.  One daughter, Delilah, who died in 1864, was the wife of T.T. 
McCurdy.  Another daughter, Elizabeth, died Jan. 27, 1885.  She was the 
wife of Nicholas Minich, of Massillon, Ohio, and had six children, four of 
whom are living.  Robert, William, Catherine and Mary live on the old 
homestead, which contains 105 acres of valuable land.

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