Minnie Louisa Chambers

© The Hammon Advocate

Thursday October 8, 1964

Submitted by: Leila Evett

"Under Kiowa News"

This community was saddened last Monday September 28, 1964 by the passing of a real pioneer settler of this vicinity. Mrs. Minnie Chambers died at her home in Elk City. She and her husband and three small girls came in 1897. Mr. Chambers homesteaded the farm now owned by Mrs. Fancis Fiddler. They moved to Texas for a few years, but came back and lived since at Hammon, Sandstone and Elk City. Mr. Chambers and a son preceded her in death. Relatives from a distance who were at the cemetery Wednesday included her daugher, Mrs. George Barnes, her husband and daughter from Lehigh, Oklahoma, her two daughters, Mrs. Chessie Fresbie and Mrs. Ollie Flint and children, Amarillo, Texas. The funeral was held at Martin Chapel in Elk City but a number of old neighbors and friends were at Kiowa Cemetery.

Minnie Louisa Chambers

© The Hammon Advocate

Thursday October 8, 1964

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Services are Held for Mrs. Chambers

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Louisa Chambers, 90, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Martin Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Chambers died September 28 at a local hospital.

Reverend L. D. Thomas, Jr. Methodist Church Minister, conducted the rites and burial was at the Kiowa Cemetery southwest of Hammon.

Mrs. Chambers was born August 21, 1874, in Lee County, Texas, and was married to Robert C. Chambers on June 25, 1889 at Lake Valley, New Mexico. She came to Oklahoma 66 years ago and had made her home in Elk City for the past 12 years.

She was a member of the Methodist Church.

Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Grace Barnes, Elk City; Mrs. Willie Barnes, LeHigh, Oklahoma; Mrs. Ruth Bullard, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Mrs. Ollie Flynt and Mrs. Jessie Fresbie both of Amarillo; one brother, Payne Field of Clovis, New Mexico; 13 grandchildren and several great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

© The Hammon Advocate

7 December 1950

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Two Daughters Visit Old Home Town of Mrs. Minnie Chambers

Mrs. Robert Celby Chambers, nee Minnie Duncan, now living in Hammon, Oklahoma, Although 76 years old, is still desirous of reviving incidents, memories and contacts with her girlhood, having lived here when she was twelve years old, and later as a young woman when her husband was employed in the mines. Sunday, two daughters, Mrs. T. E. Frisbie of Amarillo and Mrs. Ruth Bullard of Hatch, accompanied by the granddaughter, Mrs. John Ditterline of Anthony, and young Mrs. Bullard, with four great grandchildren, all in quest of anything that might be of interest to Mrs. Chambers.

After making a tour of the town and the old buildings, they roamed the cemetery, locating graves of those who deaths had become legendary to these succeeding generations. By writing to Mrs. Chambers in Hammon, old friends and acquaintances would no doubt be giving her much pleasure as well as themselves.--Sierra County Advocate, Hot Springs, N. M., Nov 17, 1950.

Due to not being able to go into the high altitude Mrs. Chambers did not make the trip with her daughters to her childhood home at Lake Valley, near Hot Springs, N. M.

Mrs. Frisbie and Mrs. Bullard reported an interesting trip--they saw the birthplace of Mrs. Chambers, a former fort of which only the walls remain; they also visited the house where the marriage of their parents took place.

Mrs. Chambers and her husband came to Oklahoma in 1898; and filed on a farm in Roger Mills County in the Carpenter Community.

Three other daughters of Mrs. Chambers are Mrs. E. R. Barnes, Mrs. O. C. Flynt, Hammon, and Mrs. George Barnes, Lehigh, Oklahoma.

The above item taken from the Hammon Advocate is printed here to call attention to difference as shown in birthplace here and in funeral home record that reflects Lee County, Texas.

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