{"id":275,"date":"2013-09-28T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:53","slug":"chambers-daniel-g-b-1835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/chambers-daniel-g-b-1835\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMBERS, Daniel G. &#8211; (b. 1835)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Elder Daniel G. CHAMBERS<\/strong>, a well known minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, engaged in farming in Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., January 5, 1835, and is a son of <strong>Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS.<\/strong>\u00a0 The father was born in Halifax County, Va., August 11, 1802, being of English descent, and died in Fayette County, Tenn., June 21, 1881.\u00a0 The mother was born in Robertson County, Tenn., April 13, 1805, and was of Scotch-Irish descents and died in Fayette County March 26, 1878.\u00a0 They married in Robertson County in 1823.\u00a0 In 1836 they moved to Fayette County and settled in the Fifteenth District, nine miles east of Somerville.\u00a0 In early life the father gave his time to farming. In 1844 he attended the Botanical Medical College at Memphis, Tenn., and after receiving his diploma he returned to Fayette County and practiced medicine there for seventeen years.\u00a0 In 1862 he retired from the practice and again gave his time to farming. They were both Primitive Baptists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Our subject was the seventh of thirteen children; he had the advantage of a good education; he was still an infant when his parents moved to Fayette County and has always made it his home.\u00a0 In 1860 <strong>Mr. CHAMBERS<\/strong> purchased a farm and has been a most enterprising farmer, now owning more than 500 acres of land in Fayette County.\u00a0 October 3, 1859, he married <strong>Miss Mary F. TAYLOR<\/strong>, a cultured lady, born in Fayette County.\u00a0 One son and three daughters were born them; <strong>Martha F.<\/strong>, born May 1, 160; <strong>Margaret L.,<\/strong> born October 5, 1862; <strong>Thomas G.,<\/strong> born August 1, 1865, and <strong>Amanda C.<\/strong>, born May 27, 1867.\u00a0 In early life <strong>Mr. CHAMBERS<\/strong> professed religion and for seven or eight years past has been a popular preacher in the Primitive Baptist Church.\u00a0 He is a good man and a most valuable citizen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u00a0Goodspeed\u2019s History of Tennessee, 1887.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder Daniel G. CHAMBERS, a well known minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, engaged in farming in Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., January 5, 1835, and is a son of Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS.\u00a0 The father was born in Halifax County, Va., August 11, 1802, being of English descent, and died in Fayette County, Tenn., June 21, 1881.\u00a0 The mother was born in Robertson County, Tenn., April 13, 1805, and was of Scotch-Irish descents and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/chambers-daniel-g-b-1835\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,147,150],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chambers","tag-gordon","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}