Benjamin Chambers and Sarah Lawson Kemper
Husband Benjamin Chambers 1
Born: 4 Jan 1764 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 27 Aug 1850 - Saline Co, MO 2 Buried:
Father: Col. James Chambers (1743-1805) 3 4 5 Mother: Katharine Hamilton (1737/1738-1820) 1 6
Marriage: 22 Jul 1801 - near Cincinnati, OH 2
Wife Sarah Lawson Kemper 2
Born: 1780 2 Christened: Died: 22 Dec 1836 2 Buried:
Father: Rev. James Kemper ( - ) 2 Mother: Judith Hathaway ( - ) 2
Children
1 F Ruth Chambers 2
Born: 6 Aug 1802 2 Christened: Died: 2 Sep 1814 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M James Kemper Chambers 2
Born: 26 Sep 1804 2 Christened: Died: 1 Sep 1821 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 M Israel Ludlow Chambers 2
Born: 6 Jan 1806 2 Christened: Died: 30 Apr 1807 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Sarah Bella Chambers 2
Born: 31 Oct 1807 2 Christened: Died: May 1867 2 Buried:Spouse: Dr. George Penn ( - ) 2
5 M Joseph Chambers 2
Born: 2 Jan 1810 2 Christened: Died: 24 May 1810 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M George Washington Chambers 7
Born: 17 Aug 1811 7 Christened: Died: 22 Sep 1829 7 Buried:
7 M Benjamin Chambers 7
Born: 1 Aug 1813 7 Christened: Died: 4 Nov 1814 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 F Catharine Judith Chambers 7
Born: 6 Feb 1815 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Cockrill Pulliam ( - ) 7 Marr: 27 Apr 1836 7
9 F Susanna Mary Chambers 7
Born: 6 Nov 1816 7 Christened: Died: 10 Sep 1822 7 Buried:
10 M Ludlow Chambers 7
Born: 25 Nov 1819 7 Christened: Died: Sep 1852 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
11 M John Hamilton Chambers 7
Born: 25 Jan 1821 7 Christened: Died: 2 Jul 1877 7 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Chambers
Although only a lad, he went with his father's company of riflemen to Cambridge, in 1775, and was in the action at Ploughed Hill, on the 26th of August. The youth was commissioned an ensign in his father's regiment, the First Pennsylvania, June 2, 1778, and promoted to be first lieutenant, Sept. 13, 1779. He retired with his father, Jan. 17, 1781. His last fight was at the Bergen block-house, July 10, 1780. After leaving the army Lieutenant Chambers returned to the Conococheague. He again served under his father in the "Whiskey Insurrection." When General Chambers failed in the management of the Loudon Forge, young Benjamin went to the Northwest Territory, and was one of the first surveyors of southeastern Indiana. He became proprietor of Lawrenceburg, after the failure of Vance, the original owner. In 1803 Governor Harrison appointed him a judge of the Common Pleas and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Dearborn militia. He was a member of the first Indiana Council. Colonel Chambers, as he was then called, being the third of his family to bear the title, removed to Missouri about 1820, where he remained during the rest of his life.
1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 6.
2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 9.
3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 181.
4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 4.
5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 311.
6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 122.
7
—, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 10.
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