Dora, who did Eddie marry in Bastrop County? Vanessa ---------- >From: Dora Smith <tiggernut_48@yahoo.com> >To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TXBASTRO] Eddie Chambers, how to find info on 1930s Bastrop orTravis Co shooting? >Date: Mon, Aug 28, 2000, 4:15 PM > >I have more information on this black Chambers >family from Webberville and Bastrop County that >I'm researching. Eddie's son, David, who was >born in 1932, was somewhere around five when his >father died. His mother remarried, and as a >result, David adn his daughters are extremely >vague about the most obvious details about >David's family, and it seems hardly anyone >obvious is left alive. > >I now understand that Eddie Chambers, who died >around 1937 give or take a couple of years, was >shot. It had something to do with he was known >to carry a gun. "Everyone carried a gun back >then". I don't know how true that was, even in >Texas. The family have no other details about >what happened including the motive for the >shooting, and they do not know if the killer was >caught. It is not known if this was some gun >duel thing, some gangsta thing, or a robbery, or >a crazy man angry at Eddie for some reason, or >even a lynching. Eddie's occupation is also >unknown. > >The family is believed to have been living in >Webberville at the time. Eddie was believed to >have been FROM Bastrop County, and I did indeed >find Eddie in his parents' household in Bastrop >County in the 1920 census. David's children were >born in Austin. Webberville is a little village >on the road to Bastrop County near the county >line. Eddie's father owned $7000 worth of land >in Bastrop County in 1920, and was a farmer, as >was his father before him. The family were >Black. What Eddie did for a living is not known. > Eddie was 15 in the 1920 census, so he was >around 30 when he was killed. Also, Eddie >married in Bastrop County. I found the marriage >in the index. > >I can not find any death for an Eddie Chambers or >anything that conceivably could be Eddie's name, >in the death indexes for the 1930's in Travis or >Bastrop County, though several Eddie Chambers' >died in other parts of TExas. If Eddie was not >killed in Bastrop or Travis Counties, his death >certificate would be where he was killed and not >where he died. > >Can anyone tell me where would be the best places >to look for information on the shooting of a >thirty year old black man with a family who lived >in Webberville and came from Bastrop County, who >may or may not have been killed anywhere near >where he lived? Given that the date is pinned >down to only within a few years? > >Yours, >Dora Smith > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of >the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or >TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > >