Lewis Benjamin Chamblee

Lewis Chamblee BIRTH 1776 Wake County, North Carolina, USA DEATH 1855 (aged 78–79) Pickens County, Alabama, USA BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 175652018 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 1 FLOWERS 1 Lewis Chamblee born 1776 (or 1785) in NC, died 1855 in Pickens or Greene County in Alabama. He was a son of Isaac Chamblee and Lucretia Jones. He and his brother Zadock Chamblee moved to Anderson County, S.C., together before he moved to Alabama.

Lewis Chamblee married (1st) 1798 in SC to Mary (Polly) Burris by whom he had at least ten children and married (2) by 1850 to Mrs. Martha(Chamblee) Shelton (born 1817 - 1819 in Alabama), his cousin, by whom he had at least two children and perhaps four more. D'Ann Stoddard wrote, "Lewis Chamblee received 26 acres of his father's land on Poly Branch, Wake County NC in 1803. By tradition he was an orphan and a veteran of the War of 1812 who became a wealthy planter, holding one hundred slaves. However, in Pickens County, AL he was but a farmer and owned only 12 slaves in 1840. Moreover, no record of his military service has been discovered. Lewis Chamblee appears to have migrated from NC into the Pendleton District SC in the late 18th century where he married. He purchased a tract of land on the Generostee Creek in present-day Anderson County, SC from his father-in-law Joshua Burris about 1804 and lived there until 1825-1830, at which time he moved into Alabama. His move there may have been in company with other family members Isham Chamblee and Robert Chamblee who settled in Blount County, AL. Lewis Chamblee may be placed in Pickens County, AL by 1830, where he obtained a grant in 1832 for lands in Greene County, AL, lands on and just south of the Sipsey River in a region that was ceded to Pickens County, AL in 1832 but which reverted to Greene County, AL thereafter. He is also placed in Greene County by probate records of 1839 but in Pickens County, Al by 1840 and 1850 census records. After Lewis Chamblee's death his widow married Joseph M. Lewis."

Family Members Spouse Photo Mary Burriss Chamblee 1778–1842

Children Photo Mary Francis Chamblee McCown 1799–1875

Elizabeth Chamblee Fortune 1802–1851

Photo James Burris Chamblee 1802–1880

Photo Moses Chamblee 1802–1895

Photo John David Chamblee 1804–1870

Jacob Chamblee 1814–1898

Photo Isham Burris Chamblee 1824–1920

Photo Mackarina Thursa Chamblee Morehead 1832–1923

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