ANGELO GHIBERTA CHAMBERLAIN
ANGELO GHIBERTA CHAMBERALIN & SARAH (HARLAN) CHAMBERLAIN
Surnames: CHAMBERLAIN, KILLINGSWORTH, ALDRIDGE, GHIBERTI, HARLAN, LESTER, HENRY, MC KINNEY, WHITE, FIELDS, WOOD, GREEN, GUEDRY, NAUGHTON, GROBB, NOVOTNY, JOHNSON, MC CORMICH, BURNS, JONES, EDMONDSON, PARKS, PACE, MC LENDON, HUNTER, BITNER, JONES, RAYNOR, HOLT, THOMPSON, PATTERSON, CROSBY, MC CLELLAN, KILLEN, POTTER, MULLINNEX, MAC DONALD, ALEXANDER, KELLY, MILLERMAN-CORNELISON, MENEFEE, COBB, HOPPER, SHAW, WARREN, MORRISON, BUTLER, LAMON, FINDLEY, BEARCE, JUNEK, PENDERGRAFT
Angelo Ghiberta CHAMBERLAIN, b October 1, 1847 in Old Yalobusha County, Mississippi ( now Grenda County), d May 14, 1923 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery in Falls County, Texas - was the second child of Alexander Hunter and Temperance Killingsworth (Aldridge) CHAMBERLAIN - Natives of South Carolina and Alabama, respectively, who settled in Alto Springs, Falls County, Texas in the Spring of 1855. Angelo was named for his mother’s maternal grandfather, Angelo GHIBERTI, but the name “GHIBERTI” was sometimes spelled with an “a” instead of an “i”.
On December 20, 1871 in Falls County, Texas, Angelo married Sarah HARLAN (called “Sally”) b September 11, 1856 at Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas, d June 15, 1944 and is buried at Blue Ridge Cemetery - a daughter of Silas and Anna Elizabeth (LESTER) HARLAN and granddaughter of Dr. Isaiah and Nancy (HENRY) HARLAN who came to Texas in the Fall of 1834.
Angelo and Sally were Baptists, and active in the Blue Ridge Baptist Church throughout their lives. Their children attended the Grange School located near the family and later the Blue Ridge School and Reagan High School. Angelo followed agricultural pursuits all his adult life, and had been reared in a slave-owning family, while Sally’s family - having come from a Quaker background, never owned slaves.
Angelo and Sally CHAMBERLAIN were the parents of eleven children - all born in Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas:
Alonzo Harlan CHAMBERLAIN, b October 18, 1872, d October 24, 1960 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery in Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas - married September 23, 1896 to Florence Beatrice McKINNEY, b July 26, 1876, d September 5, 1958 - a daughter of Nathan and __?___(WHITE) McKINNEY. They had eleven children: Beatrice CHAMBERLAIN b August 9, 1897 who married Cyrus William FIELDS, Nathan CHAMBERLAIN who married Ruby WOOD. Ollie Ethel CHAMBERLAIN who married Jerome D. GREEN. Asa CHAMBERLAIN b 1901, d 1921 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery - was carrying gasoline in one hand and a lantern in the other when it ignited burning him to death. Myra CHAMBERLAIN - a twin b, 1908 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. Marie CHAMBERLAIN - a twin b, 1908 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery. Forrest Churhill CHAMBERLAIN, b February 2, 1906, d November 27, 1967 - unmarried, buried at Blue Ridge Cemetery. Willie Grace CHAMBERLAIN who married Hale GUEDRY. Adniram Judson (“Nilie”) CHAMBERLAIN who married Frances NAUGHTON. Sarah Elizabeth CHAMBERLAIN b April 14, 1914 who married Carl GROBB. Edward Podmore CHAMBERLAIN, b February 12, 1920 who married Alice NOVOTNY.
Claudia Joan CHAMBERLAIN, b April 6, 1875, d October 7, 1962 in Van Nuys, California - married June 24, 1896 to George Albert JOHNSON, b November 2, 1873 near Calvert, Texas, d May 1, 1960 in Van Nuys, California - son of George Dallas and May Elizabeth (McCORMICH) JOHNSON; and had six children: Ima JOHNSON, b ca 1897, d 1898. Walter JOHNSON, b November 1899 - married first to Stella Mae BURNS, and second to his first wife’s sister, Fae BURNS. Mary JOHNSON married first to a Mr. JONES, and second to Cecil EDMONDSON. Harlan JOHNSON - married but had no issue. Mabel Annie JOHNSON, b October 7, 1912 who married Clark Lemuel Parks and had Bryan Parks, Dr. Larry Clark Parks, and Leslie Parks.
Ethel Inez CHAMBERLAIN, b April 2, 1877, d August 11, 1964 - married August 27, 1898 to Reverend
William John (“Jack”) PACE, b February 21, 1869 in Newton County, Mississippi, d May 19, 1929 - son of James Willis and Sarah Jane (McLENDON) PACE - moved to New Mexico and had 5 children: William Maxwell PACE, b June 26, 1899 who married Vera HUNTER. Ghiberti F. (“Bert”) PACE, b Marcch 16, 1902 who married Lillian BITNER. Harold Charles PACE,b June 10, 1907 who married Ruth Marie (JONES) RAYNOR. Jack Chamberlain PACE b January 10, 1917 who married Dorothy Nell HOLT. Mabel Ethel PACE b August 11, 1912 who married Lebert THOMPSON.
Ida Ghiberta CHAMBERLAIN b March 4, 1879, d April 27, 1961 and buried in Houston, Texas - married
August 20, 1911 in Reagan, Falls County, Texas to Ludy A. PATTERSON, b January 17, 1874 in Prentis County, Mississippi, d June 13, 1931 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery, and had one daughter: Sarah Elizabeth PATTERSON, b January 29, 1919 who married Thomas Murrah CROSBY, Jr.
Ivy Ordell CHAMBERLAIN, b May 12, 1881, d May 16, 1881 and buried at Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Lester Aldridge CHAMBERLAIN, b August 4, 1882, d December 27, 1946 and buried in Blue Ridge
Cemetery - married January 20, 1909 to Addie Mary McCLELLAN, b February, 1890 in Fayette County, Texas - daughter of Frank Stephen and Ellen Rebecca (KILLEN) McCLELLAN and had children: Frank Angelo CHAMBERLAIN, b May 2, 1910 who married Henrietta POTTER. Mary Ethel CHAMBERLAIN, b April 12, 1912 who married Charles Lee MULLINNEX. Lester Aldridge CHAMBERLAIN, Jr. b June 19, 1914 who married first to Martha Elizabeth and second to Nina Schenck MacDONALD and had no issue. Margaret Addie CHAMBERLAIN, b March 8, 1925 who married George Carl ALEXANDER.
Grace Angela CHAMBERLAIN, b December 20, 1884, d August 23, 1976 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery - married in 1914 to Oscar G. KELLY, b July 26, 1883 - son of Levi Waddell and Sara (MILLERMAN - CORNELISON) KELLY.
Alexander Silas CHAMBERLAIN, b June 17, 1887, d September 9, 1887 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
Dorothy Belle CHAMBERLAIN, b November 23, 1890, d August 11, 1983 in Houston, Texas and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery - married first on January 9, 1913 to William A. MENEFEE, b November 24, 1890 in Robertson County, Texas, d October 24, 1936 - a son of Clay C. and Mary Elney (COBB) MENEFEE and had two sons: William Harlan MENEFEE, b November 29, 1913 who married first it Iva HOPPER, and second to Inez (ESTES) SHAW.
Homer Herbert MENEFEE, b November 16, 1915 who married Inez WARREN Dorothy married second to Fred MORRISON, and had no issue. Homer Gray CHAMBERLAIN, b December 10, 1896, d September 29, 1968 in Cameron, Milam County, Texas - married May 19, 1923 in Johnson County, Texas to Stella May BUTLER b October 29, 1898 - a daughter of Marion and Dora (LAMON) BUTLER and had children: Marion Ghiberta (“Bert”) CHAMBERLAIN, b March 9, 1924, d January 20, 1962, who never married. Ollie Gray CHAMBERLAIN, b July 28, 1926 in Falls County, Texas, who married Mary Irene (BOWSER) FINDLEY. Homer Thomas CHAMBERLAIN, b December 6, 1936 who married first to Diona Sue BEARCE and second to Catherine Rose (KRENEK) JUNEK.
Herbert Collins CHAMBERLAIN, b November 6, 1898 alive in Falls County, Texas in 1986 - married April 7, 1937 to Thelma PENDERGRAFT, b March 25, 1914 and had one son.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these
Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 71, Column 1 and 2, Page 72 Column 1 and 2
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