Eddie married Evelina Neals, on Jan 8, 1927. His father, Washington Chambers, apparently married twice; Bella Cole and Mary Franklin. Washington's father married "Charlotte Chambers". From marriage index. Evelina is apparently spelled more than one way. Dora --- Vanessa Schatz <bfly1@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously > posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/