Elsie and Margarite CHAMBERS

September 23, 1905

Nashville News

Saturday September 23, 1905 at Nardin, Funeral of Mrs. L. T. Chambers and her two- month old daughter, Margarite whose deaths resulted from burns received from an explosion of a gasoline stove. Funeral services were held in the Christian Church by the Rev. Myers and was one of the most sad and impressive events ever witnessed in that community. Every place of business in that town was closed during the services and the immense crowd present (many more than could get into the church) were ample evidences of the universal sympathy and friendship for the bereaved and stricken ones. Burial was made at Wakita in this county near where the parents of the dead woman, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. McCray, reside. Lewis Chambers the bereaved husband, is the writer's younger brother and is cashier of the Nardin State Bank. He has left one child, a boy about three and a half years old. Sister Elsie was 24 years old and a loving Christian woman, good wife and mother, and her untimely and distressing death is one of the inexplicable things of which this life is all too full.