Herbert Collins Chamberlain

Surnames: HARLAN, LESTER, ALDRIDGE, HENRY, PENDERGRAFT, STAFFORD, CHAPMAN, GARRETT, GIBBS, HENSON, SATTERFIELD, VANDERGRIFF

Herbert Collins CHAMBERLAIN (called "HUB"), b November 6, 1898 in Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas - was a son of Angelo Ghiberta and Sarah (HARLAN) CHAMBERLAIN and a grandson of two of Falls County Families who settled early in the Blue Ridge and Alto Springs area of east Falls county: Silas and Ann Elizabeth (LESTER) HARLAN, and Alexander Hunter and Temperance Killingsworth (ALDRIDGE) CHAMBERLAIN. His maternal grandfather, Silas HARLAN, was the eldest surviving son of Dr. Isaiah and Nancy (HENRY) HARLAN, who arrived in Texas while it was the State of Coahuila, Mexico in the Fall of 1834, and received a grant of a league of land on February 20, 1835 at Viesca - seat of government of Sterling Clack Robertson's Colony. Hub's in Blue Ridge is located on part of the Isaiah HARLAN league, and is the built by his parents.

On April 17, 1937 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, Hub married Thelma PENDERGRAFT. b March 25, 1914 - a daughter of Lewis Calvin and Pearl Mabelle (STAFFORD) PENDERGRAFT of Rosebud, Falls County, Texas. Thelma's mother was reared by her father amd stepmother Andrew L. STAFFORD and Mahala (CHAPMAN) STAFFORD who were married after the death of his first wife; and they are buried in Powers Chapel Cemetery in Falls County, Texas.

During the early part of his life, Hub attended the Grange and Blue Ridge Schools, and then graduated from Reagan High School - also teaching in Reagan for one year after graduation. He was one of the foremost members of the Reagan High School Debating Team, a poet, and a very fine musician. He studied German during his school days, and arranged music for the violin. He counted the piano, organ, violin, and clarinet among the instruments played. Hub organized his own band, which played weekly over the radio in Waco. During World War I, Hub enlisted in the U.S. Army, but was not sent overseas.

Thelma was manager of the School Lunch Program in Marlin Independent School District after the Falls County W.P.A. School Lunch Program was organized by Hub's cousin, Marian Mitchell Garrett(later (GIBBS). Thelma also drove a school bus for a number of years.

Hub and Thelm have one son:
Douglas Henry CHAMBERLAIN, b September 15, 1939 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, who married first to Jimmie Lynn HENSON and had two children: Christopher Allen CHAMBERLAIN, b April 17, 1965 in Hearne, Texas; and Jennifer Ann CHAMBERLAIN, b October 3, 1969 in Hearne, Texas. He married second to Judy Paulett SATTERFIELD, b March 15, 1947 in Sherman, Texas - daughter of Paul Alfred and Bessie Faye (VANDERGRIFF) SATTERFIELD, and they have two children: Collin Paul CHAMBERLAIN, b October 16, 1979 in Sherman, Texas; and Crystal Dawn CHAMBERLAIN, b December 1, 1983 in Sherman, Texas. Douglas works for the Texas State Department of Human Resources, and family resides in Sherman,

Both of Hub's grandfathers were signers of the original Charter of Blue Ridge Baptist Church when it was organized in 1859; and his paternal grandfather, Alexander Hunter CHAMBERLAIN, having been a deacon in the Mars Hill Baptist Church in Mississippi, was named the first Deacon of the New Church at Blue Ridge. It was appropriate that Herbert Collins CHAMBERLAIN received the Certificate, signed by the Governor of Texas, which named Blue Ridge a Texas Sesquicentennial Community for the celebration of the 150th birthday of Texas. Hub and Thelma host the annual CHAMBERLAIN Family Reunion, when CHAMBERLAIN'S gather from across the nation.

Typed by: Phyllis Seeley

Some biographies from "Families of Falls County", compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission.
Permission granted to Theresa Carhart by the Falls County Historical Commission, for use on this page.