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George Harris Chambers (1839 - 1918)

George Harris Chambers
Born in Wolston, Warwickshire, Englandmap
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Died at age 79 in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United Statesmap
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George Chambers was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

George Harrison Chambers was born Jan 26, 1839 in Lancaster, England. He was the son of Joseph Chambers and Mary Watton. His mother was from Newberry, Berkshire, England. His father, Joseph Chambers, was from Scotland. He died on the plains near Buffalo Creek, July 21, 1853.

To Father and his Mother one brother Joseph and one sister Annie came with the ship International on Feb. 28, 1853 with Captain Brown and a company of four hundred and twenty-five souls under the presence of Elder Christopher Arthur. This company arrived in New Orleans on the twenty-third of April 1853. During the voyage seven deaths and seven births and five marriages took place. The wind and storm on the sea, they almost thought the ship would go down.

But the Faith they had in God was what saved them. Then they traveled part way to Salt Lake City with handcart. Father was just a small boy, fourteen.

His Mother on getting into Salt Lake City went to work for Brigham Young doing laundry work for four years. When Father got a little older, he decided to bring his mother where he could take up a homestead in Spanish Fork. Their home was a two-room adobe house on the place where Frank Nelson lives now.

He married Rachel David Dec 5, 1863 in the Endowment house as the Temple was not finish at that time. They made the home on Main Street. The first survey in the city plots of nine blocks that was surveyed. The blocks were twenty-four rods square and were divided into eight lots each, an eight-rod street running North and South Main Street.

Father took his lots where Dennis Prince stand is from that corner to the Plastic plant. He built a two-room adobe house making the adobes himself. The water they had to get from the ditch, which is still there. Then he dug a well. He often told of the hard times they had to wear pants made of wagon cover cloth.

The Indians were very bad up near Thistle. He often said about a family that was killed up there that he went up with other men to stand guard up by the springs.

He got him two oxen and made him a wagon. He went down and took up some land down where they used to call the Indian's farm, as the Indians were getting more friendly. But now what they call Leland, he put up a small home there and took up one hundred and fifty acres of land. They had three children, one boy and two girls; they both died. So he had Mary and Martha to help him grub out the grease woods. Help to build the bridges. He learned to do his own carpenter work and machine work. He was a self made man and was always called to fix any kind of a farm machine.

He was a Black Hawk during the time the Indians were so bad down in Sanpete and Sevier county; he went as a guard with Charlie Brown, Morgan Hughes, Joseph Boyack, Isaac Bowen, John Morgan and others.

After Father got his land in good shape, he had some trouble with high water on his land on the east side of the river that it got so he could not raise very good crops on it only beets for a few years. He took up raising cattle.

Had the four boys. They started in the brick making; he built his Mother a two-room home of his brick and the City Hall and the Thurber School and our brick home. He did all the carpenter work and hauled all the stone from the canyon for our house.

Was a Policeman for a while. When people started to have heavy crops of wheat he and Alfred Reese got a threshing machine. His wheat bins were well filled and gave wheat for his tithing.

He was a man that liked to go out to all social events and would say my wife Rachel was the best dancer in the hall. She said to him oh no I am not, you don't do any thing only swing me off my feet that I can't dance. He always had so much respect for her for not having her hearing as she lost it when very small.

When he got a good team of horses and a better wagon, he would haul some of the tithing up to the Bishops Hanson home and some right to Salt Lake City. He sold some of his land on Indian farm to take some interest in the Young Mines Coal on the property he sold to them and also when they built the first bank next to that him and Henry Gardner took out some shares.

The first trees Father planted on the place were box elders and locust by the old adobe house, and fruit threes on the south side of the new home. He went to the canyon and got some evergreens and planted them on the north side of the house. They are still there.

When the Icelanders came to Spanish Fork he gave the men and women work stacking up wheat, picking potatoes and topping beets; gave them all the flour and any thing they wanted. He was very good to them. He took up ten acres of land up where the Wellington Wood's farm is now; he gave it to Morgan Hughes Junior for herding cows.

It was one time his sister Annie married a man by the name of Jolley. She was living in a dugout with the water coming up in the dirt floor. She had a small boy and girl. Her husband took them and ran away. Father took her home to live with them; she never did hear any thing about the children but when they were older, they came back. Their Father had died. But she had married John Morgan. His brother Joseph married Louisa McKee and he had a half brother, John White. George Harrison Chambers died May 8, 1918 at the age of 80.

Sources

  • 1880 Census residence: Spanish Fork, Utah
  • 1910 Census residence: Spanish Fork, Utah
  • State of Utah Death Certificate
  • Family Search
  • This person was created through the import of Bwiki.ged on 03 April 2011
  • 1851 Wales Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. 1851 Wales Census for Joseph Chambers 20:23, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Ancestry.com. Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961 for Joseph Chambers 20:10, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
  • George Harrison Chambers on Find A Grave: Memorial #11123810 17:45, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Record Extracts

1851 Wales Census, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Jos Chambers 51, coal agent, Carlisle, Cumberland, England
Mary Chambers 38, Newbury, Berkshire, England
John (White) Chambers 18, Bermingham, Warwickshire, England
George Chambers 12, Wolston, Warwickshire, England
Mary Chambers 10, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Jos Chambers 6, Rugby, Warwickshire, England





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More research is needed. Conflicting parents need to be researched before this merge could continue.
Chambers-5974 and Chambers-397 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicates
posted by Dale Mutter

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