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The Edgerton Database |
Polly Edgerton, daughter of Andrew
and Catherine (
William H. Chambers, son of Samuel and Hannah (Van Zant) Chambers.
The
following obituary for William H. Chambers was published in the Yates County Chronicle on May 2, 1872: “Died at Rock Stream, April 28, William H. Chambers, aged upwards of seventy years. The deceased was a son of Samuel Chambers and Hannah VanZant his wife. The mother Hannah was a daughter of Bernardus VanZant of Ovid. Old Mr. And Mrs. Chambers were native Pennsylvanians, and came in 1802 to the Lake country to dwell, settling first on Phillips’ Location, moving thence to a place on Owen's Patent, and later to a farm on McKnight's Location just east of the Gore, about two miles south west of Eddytown, where "Uncle Sammy Chambers" died in 1832. William H. Chambers was the eldest of a family consisting of himself, Christopher, Eleanor, Thomas, Barna, James, Delilah, Lydia Lucinda, Hannah and Jedediah, all well known to the early residents of Starkey. He married in 1819 Polly, daughter of Andrew Edgerton of Rock Stream, who was born in 1803 and died many years ago childless. He has always lived in Starkey, and latterly with his late wife’s maiden sister, Harriet Edgerton, on the old Edgerton homestead at Rock Stream.” |