Burial : Chambers Cemetery (1), Buffalo Creek , Scott County, Tennessee, U.S.A. Find A Grave memorial #24148029 [1]
In 1810 Thomas Chambers of New River is listed in the Fourth Survey District of Tennessee as surveyed by John McClellan. At that time, the New River area was attached to Anderson County. A petition was filed with the State Legislature in 1815 asking that the area around New River be attached to Campbell County. The signers of the petition complained that they had to go to the courthouse in Anderson County by way of Jacksboro, the county seat for Campbell County. Thomas Chambers was a signer of the petition, received in the State Senate on October 17, 1815. The petition was granted and county lines redrawn in 1817.[1]
Thomas, without having moved, pays taxes in Campbell County in 1818. 1818 Tax list for Campbell County, Thomas Chambers 300 acres; 1 free poll. He is a resident of Campbell County in 1819 when the following act was enacted. "Be it hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that a precinct election is hereby authorized and established at the home of Thomas Chambers on New River in the County of Campbell."[2] In the 1830 census Thomas is in Campbell County.[3] In the 1840 census Thomas was in Campbell County, Tennessee.[4]
Thomas continues to appear in records of Campbell County, Tennessee, until the formation of Scott County in 1849. In the 1850 census Thomas (age 73) was in Scott County, Tennessee.[5] In the 1860 census Thos (age 78) was in the 6th District, Scott County, Tennessee.[6]
Thomas with wife Katie came from North Carolina and brought with them 20 Negro servants. they came over the mountains by way of Jacksboro, Tennessee to what they now call Scott County. they moved to Buffalo and settled on a 5,000-acre grant from the State of Tennessee in 1812. They had, in 1800, taken up a land grant which included all the land between the mouth of Buffalo Creek to the mouth of Paint Rock.
Thomas and the Negro servants cleared land and built houses. He bought land and owned so much that he gave each child a large farm when they married. The Chambers family and the Negroes worked together. The children attended school together in a log house near the Chambers' Cemetery at Buffalo. When the Negroes were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, some of the slaves remained on the farm until they died, and were buried in Buffalo Cemetery . . . . [author's comment, page 37] NOTE: several grave stones were found marking plots at the Chambers Cemetery at Buffalo Creek. These were crude, flat rocks, essentially, without engraving. Local anecdotes tell that these are the graves of Thomas Chambers' slaves.[7]
Thomas Chambers is shown in North Carolina and Tennessee land records, [8][9][10]
Thomas died on 14 June 1871. He was buried in the Chambers Cemetery on Smith Creek Road near Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee.[11]
Slaves of Thomas Chambers, Tennessee
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