The Times-Picayune.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, November 13, 1874
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Another honored veteran has been taken from us, Mr. J. N. Chambers, died yesterday, at his son-in-law's near Clinton, East Feliciana, at the age of 76.
Capt. Chambers had resided in this State for more than half a century. Graduating at West Point in the first class of that academy in 1818, he was commissioned in the engineers and was employed in superintending the construction of Fort St. Phillip, below the city. His reputation as an engineer was of the highest character. But in 1823 he resigned his position in the army, marrying a daughter of Richard Relf, one of our principal merchants and most venerated citizens, he engaged in planting. His life was ever afterwards devoted to planting, settling near Thompson's Creek, in East Feliciana, he pursued the even tenor of a retired gentleman and cultivator of the soil, not, however, neglecting any of those public duties of all good citizens. During our late war, Capt. Chamber's plantation being near Port Hudson, was exposed to all the annoyances and ravages incident to that savage contest. Despite these and his bad health, he never lost his confidence and earnest enthusiasm in the right and justice of the cause of the South, and never wearied in his devotion to the State in which he had passed nearly his whole manhood.
Capt. Chambers had raised a large family, and by all of them and their numerous relatives his decease will be deeply mourned, and his memory will be cherished as that of a true, just, generous and good man, a faithful patriot, and a Christian of the firmest faith and most inflexible virtue and purity of "walk and conversation before all men."
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CHAMBERS - At the residence of his son-in-law, Major J. S. Lanier, at Clinton, La., Nov. 12, 1874, J. N. CHAMBERS, aged 76 years, a native of Maryland, and for the last fifty-three years a resident of Louisiana.
Baltimore, Md., papers please copy.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, November 13, 1874
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Another honored veteran has been taken from us, Mr. J. N. Chambers, died yesterday, at his son-in-law's near Clinton, East Feliciana, at the age of 76.
Capt. Chambers had resided in this State for more than half a century. Graduating at West Point in the first class of that academy in 1818, he was commissioned in the engineers and was employed in superintending the construction of Fort St. Phillip, below the city. His reputation as an engineer was of the highest character. But in 1823 he resigned his position in the army, marrying a daughter of Richard Relf, one of our principal merchants and most venerated citizens, he engaged in planting. His life was ever afterwards devoted to planting, settling near Thompson's Creek, in East Feliciana, he pursued the even tenor of a retired gentleman and cultivator of the soil, not, however, neglecting any of those public duties of all good citizens. During our late war, Capt. Chamber's plantation being near Port Hudson, was exposed to all the annoyances and ravages incident to that savage contest. Despite these and his bad health, he never lost his confidence and earnest enthusiasm in the right and justice of the cause of the South, and never wearied in his devotion to the State in which he had passed nearly his whole manhood.
Capt. Chambers had raised a large family, and by all of them and their numerous relatives his decease will be deeply mourned, and his memory will be cherished as that of a true, just, generous and good man, a faithful patriot, and a Christian of the firmest faith and most inflexible virtue and purity of "walk and conversation before all men."
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CHAMBERS - At the residence of his son-in-law, Major J. S. Lanier, at Clinton, La., Nov. 12, 1874, J. N. CHAMBERS, aged 76 years, a native of Maryland, and for the last fifty-three years a resident of Louisiana.
Baltimore, Md., papers please copy.
The Times-Picayune.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, November 13, 1874
Page 1; Column 3
Another honored veteran has been taken from us, Mr. J. N. Chambers, died yesterday, at his son-in-law's near Clinton, East Feliciana, at the age of 76.
Capt. Chambers had resided in this State for more than half a century. Graduating at West Point in the first class of that academy in 1818, he was commissioned in the engineers and was employed in superintending the construction of Fort St. Phillip, below the city. His reputation as an engineer was of the highest character. But in 1823 he resigned his position in the army, marrying a daughter of Richard Relf, one of our principal merchants and most venerated citizens, he engaged in planting. His life was ever afterwards devoted to planting, settling near Thompson's Creek, in East Feliciana, he pursued the even tenor of a retired gentleman and cultivator of the soil, not, however, neglecting any of those public duties of all good citizens. During our late war, Capt. Chamber's plantation being near Port Hudson, was exposed to all the annoyances and ravages incident to that savage contest. Despite these and his bad health, he never lost his confidence and earnest enthusiasm in the right and justice of the cause of the South, and never wearied in his devotion to the State in which he had passed nearly his whole manhood.
Capt. Chambers had raised a large family, and by all of them and their numerous relatives his decease will be deeply mourned, and his memory will be cherished as that of a true, just, generous and good man, a faithful patriot, and a Christian of the firmest faith and most inflexible virtue and purity of "walk and conversation before all men."
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CHAMBERS - At the residence of his son-in-law, Major J. S. Lanier, at Clinton, La., Nov. 12, 1874, J. N. CHAMBERS, aged 76 years, a native of Maryland, and for the last fifty-three years a resident of Louisiana.
Baltimore, Md., papers please copy.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, November 13, 1874
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Another honored veteran has been taken from us, Mr. J. N. Chambers, died yesterday, at his son-in-law's near Clinton, East Feliciana, at the age of 76.
Capt. Chambers had resided in this State for more than half a century. Graduating at West Point in the first class of that academy in 1818, he was commissioned in the engineers and was employed in superintending the construction of Fort St. Phillip, below the city. His reputation as an engineer was of the highest character. But in 1823 he resigned his position in the army, marrying a daughter of Richard Relf, one of our principal merchants and most venerated citizens, he engaged in planting. His life was ever afterwards devoted to planting, settling near Thompson's Creek, in East Feliciana, he pursued the even tenor of a retired gentleman and cultivator of the soil, not, however, neglecting any of those public duties of all good citizens. During our late war, Capt. Chamber's plantation being near Port Hudson, was exposed to all the annoyances and ravages incident to that savage contest. Despite these and his bad health, he never lost his confidence and earnest enthusiasm in the right and justice of the cause of the South, and never wearied in his devotion to the State in which he had passed nearly his whole manhood.
Capt. Chambers had raised a large family, and by all of them and their numerous relatives his decease will be deeply mourned, and his memory will be cherished as that of a true, just, generous and good man, a faithful patriot, and a Christian of the firmest faith and most inflexible virtue and purity of "walk and conversation before all men."
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CHAMBERS - At the residence of his son-in-law, Major J. S. Lanier, at Clinton, La., Nov. 12, 1874, J. N. CHAMBERS, aged 76 years, a native of Maryland, and for the last fifty-three years a resident of Louisiana.
Baltimore, Md., papers please copy.
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