This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHAMBERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4kB.2ACI/1850 Message Board Post: ROBERT FRANKLIN CHAMBERS WAS MY GGRANDFATHER. HE WAS BORN IN BEDFORD CO. TN. HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH JANE AND BROTHER, JAMES THOMAS, AND THEN ROBERT MOVED FROM TN TO HENDERSON CO TX BETWEEN 1862 & 1870. ELIZABETH JANE'S HUSBAND, JAMES E CHAMBERS APPARENTLY DIED IN CIVIL WAR. ROBERT MARRIED A MARY MUSGROVE FROM ?.IN 1887 IN HENDERSON CO. THEY HAD ONE SON, MY GRANDFATHER, CORTEZ HIGO (CORDIE FOR SHORT) IN 1888. ABOUT 1890 MARY SUPPOSEDLY WAS ON A TRIP AND DIED. ROBERT THEN REMARRIED TO ?? BETWEEN 1890 & 1895.FROM THE STORY I HAVE IS THIS SECOND WIFE WAS PREGNANT WITH THEIR CHILD AND HAD GONE TO LIVE WITH HER PARENTS WE THINK IN ARK. UNTIL ROBERT FINISHED BUILDING THEM A HOME. ABOUT 1895 WHILE PLOWING THE NEW MULES SPOOKED AND RAN AND KICKED ROBERT IN THE HEAD KILLING HIM. THIS SECOND WIFE NEVER CAME BACK. MY GRANDFATHER, CORDIE LIVED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH UNTIL SHE DIED ABOUT 1897. HE THEN BASICALLY LIVED WITH DIFFERENT FAMILIES IN THE AREA. HE LIVED IN HC AL! L OF HIS LIFE. ONLY ONCE DID HE EVER HEAR ABOUT THIS SECOND WIFE AND FOUND OUT HE HAD A HALF BROTHER BUT COULD NEVER FIND HIM. MY GRANDFATHER WOULDN'T TALK MUCH. WHAT I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT IS WHO WAS THIS 2ND WIFE AND AND THE HALF BROTHER? WE MAY HAVE FAMILY OUT THERE. IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR PLEASE RESPOND. I HAVEN'T FOUND ANYONE WHO HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THIS. PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME.