DEATH OF ELDER HENRY CHAMBERS Mississippi Free Trader and Natchez Gazette (Natchez, Mississippi), Wednesday, August 28, 1844; Issue 106. Shared by Myrtle Bridges April 7, 2016
OBITUARY Died on the 1st of August, at Hillsboro', Scott county, Mississippi, at the residence of William Chambers, Esq., after a protracted illness of several months, Elder Henry Chambers, of the Baptist Church, in the 73rd year of his age, leaving behind him manifest fruit of his his ministerial labors of many years. ... Elder Chambers was happily renewed by grace in the prime of life, and united with the Baptist Church in Richmond county, North Carolina, in 1802 or '3. He commenced his ministerial labors in Tennessee in 1812 or 13, from which time he ceased not to speak of his Master, until borne down with the weight of many years, disease and death. He was called away from the scenes of his sufferings, leaving behind an only so and daughter, and a numerous train of connexions and friends to mourn his loss.
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