Robert Duncan Chambers

© The Hammon Advocate

13 January 1916

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Robert Duncan Chambers, 6 years, 3 months, 4 days is dead. Robert took typhoid fever on November 18, 1915. After recovering from the fever but still in weakened condition he developed pneumonia on December 4 and died Tuesday night at 8:00 o'clock, 11 January 1916.

Robert Duncan Chambers was the son of Robert C. Chambers and Minnie Louise Field* who were early settlers in the Kiowa Community.

Note: Robert C. Chambers was born 15 November 1869 and died 11 May 1934, age 64. No obituary found for him. Many issues of the Hammon Advocate are not in the state archives.

*Mrs. Chambers was the step-daughter of David C. Fields. Her maiden name was Duncan.