Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER.

Intelligence has been received of the death, Nov. 22nd, at the home of her son, J. A. Henkle, in Ford Co. Kansas, of Mrs. Margaret Chamberlain, widow of Joseph Chamberlain, and of Sampson Henkle, by an earlier marriage. “Aunt Margaret” as she was familiarly known to hundreds, had reached the great age of upwards of 92 years. She was a “pioneer” all her life. She was born in Virginia, and moved in childhood to Ohio, while that was still a new country, and was married there to Sampson Henkle. Came with him to Tippecanoe Co., this state, in 1835, and to Jasper county in 1842. About 20 years later she removed to Kansas, where she resided till her death. In this county her home was in Barkley tp. Her first husband died many years ago, and later she married Joseph Chamberlain, some of whose descendants still reside in this vicinity. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom still live, one being Joseph C. Henkle, of Barkley tp. The others all live in KsSsas. She was a most pious woman all her life, and more notably still a very charitable and benevolent one.