Joshua Chambers

The first members of the Chambers family appear to have arrived in Missouri about the time the territory was admitted as a state into the Union. Sources vary as to the exact year of their arrival, with the dates given ranging from 1816 to 1822. They arrived in present-day Cole County, Mo., settling on the rich bottom lands near the junction of Moniteau Creek with the Missouri River, just west of our modern capitol, Jefferson City. David and Joshua Chambers came with the "Tennessee Settlement", a large party of inter-related people from Campbell County, Tenn., and including family names of Chambers, Gouge,(also spelled Gooch), McKinney, Harmon, Inglish (English), Miller, and Fulkerson.

Three Chambers men and their families, David, William, and Joshua, settled in that area, although William apparently arrived in Missouri either in 1831, or 1832. They were all born between 1789 and 1793, but we are not certain of their exact relationship. They may have been brothers, but no proof exists of that.

There is a distinct possibility that David and Joshua were sons of one James Chambers who remained in Campbell County, and that William was the son of a William who also remained there. There is enough family usage of the same names to insure a close relationship between the three, however. Descendants of David and William had settled in Texas Co., Mo., prior to the Civil War, mostly in the present-day Yukon, Raymondville, Tyrone, and Big Creek communities. --Texas County Missouri Heritage, Vol. 1, published by Texas County Missouri Genealogical & Historical Society, 1989. (pages 288-289)

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