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Luke Randolph Chandler and family |
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Luke Randolph Chandler b 25 March 1806 VA d 24 May 1880, Jackson Co. AL buried Liberty Cemetery |
Lillie Virginia Chandler b 23 November 1872 Jackson Co. AL d 12 March 1945 Scottsboro AL buried Union Cemetery |
Carolyn Tamblyn submitted this portrait of Luke Randolph Chandler, photos of other family members, and some history of the family as well. Carolyn wrote: “I think that this is Luke Randolph Chandler although I cannot be sure. It was among pictures I inherited from my grandmother, Lillie Chandler Barclay. It is painted on very thin tin.”Luke Randolph was a descendant of John Chandler born 1600 in England, placing this family in Chandler DNA Project Group 7A. The Chandler lineage from John to Luke Randolph is as follows: John Chandler b 1600 ENG > Robert Chandler b c 1629 VA > Robert Chandler b 1654 VA > William Chandler b 1693 VA > Frederick Chandler b 1745 VA > Luke Randolph Chandler b 1806. This Chandler family is well represented in our CFA membership.
Luke Randolph Chandler married Sarah Ann MacFarlane about 1831 in Madison County, Alabama. Sarah was the daughter of Lucy Price and Joseph MacFarlane. They had nine children: Sophia Ann b abt 1834, Francis Marion b 1835, Martha Virginiab 1837, Henrietta b 1840, Robert H. b 1842, Joseph Thomas b 1844, Matthew S. b 1846, Mary b 1852, and Andrew Jackson b 1854. Matthew married Martha Origon Proctor (1853-1884) and they had six children: Sarah Ann b 1871, Lillie Virginia b 1872, Charles “Charlie” b 1875, James Marion “Jim” b 1877, George Randolph b 1879, and Jessy Elbert “Jess” b 1881. (See a portrait of Charlie and a group picture of most of the siblings below.) Lillie Virginia Chandler, the daughter of Luke Randolphs’s son Matthew S. Chandler and Martha Origan Proctor, married David Edward Barclay in 1888, and they had 9 children. Lillie’s mother died when she, the second daughter, was 12, and her father died when she had been married only a few months. Newlyweds Lillie and David took her four younger brothers into their home in Woodville, Alabama. Charles, Jim, George and Jess finished the county high school and then went to work laying ties on the Southern Railroad which fronted the Barclay farm. George later became a farmer, but the other brothers made their careers in railroading. Charlie became General Superintendent of the Southern Railroad, living in Nashville, Tennessee; Jim achieved a position as Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, living in Chicago, Illinois; and Jess was Chief Dispatcher for the Southern Railroad in Birmingham, Alabama. A sadder bit of this family’s railroad story is that Lillie’s oldest son, James Oliver Barclay, was killed in an accident in the Chattanooga railway yards soon after his election as local chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Sheffield, Alabama. |
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Charles Chandler b 1875 |
Lillie (at left) in the 1930s with siblings Jim, Sally, Charles and Jess. George is missing from the photo. |
Lorenzo Dow Chandler family – Van Buren County, Tennessee |
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Above: Dow and Mattie Chandler |
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The 1930s era photo at left above shows Lorenzo Dow Chandler (known as Dow) in the center, his wife Mattie Mae Davis Chandler at right, and their son Arnold Lorenzo Chandler (1909-1998) at left. Also in the group are two unidentified children, presumably family members. The photo was taken at the family farm in Van Buren County, Tennessee; the crop is tobacco. | |
The photo at right is a tintype of Anna Ellis Chandler, 3rd wife of Little Chandler. Little and Anna are said to have both died of “the fever” that swept through Van Buren County, Tennessee, in 1869. Little and Ann were the parents of Lorenzo Dow Chandler (above), and Little was the son of Jonathan Chandler (born March 17, 1786, in Friedland, Rowan – now Forsyth – County, North Carolina; died 1823, Cape Girardeau, Missouri). Jonathans wife and Littles mother was Elizabeth Elrod. The family believes there is a Cherokee Indian connection in the late 1700s or 1800s. The Chandler lineage of this family is currently unknown beyond Jonathan born 1786. | |