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Well this must be my day for errors.
My sincere apologies, I must have an error in my database for the children of Elias Louis Chandler & Nancy A. Barrow.
As I was posting some data for their daughter, Emeline Chandler-I was re-reading my notes for her. According to her obituary her parents had 10 children not 12.
The obituary for Emmeline Chandler Stoker appeared in the Nacogdoches Newspaper as follows:
THE WEEKLY SENTINEL 1925
EMELINE STOKER
In Memoriam Emeline Stoke, widow of William Stoker, formerly of Nacogdoches Co., died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ellen Brown, at Goldthwaite a few days ago, to be exact October 12. I don't know her exact age; but she must have been near 75. I first knew this good woman 45 years ago in old Mount Moriah neighborhood, in Nacogdoches Co.. At the time she and her husband and their family of children lived on the hill in the vicinity of the school house. Mrs. Stoker was a Chandler, daughter of Uncle Elias Chandler, who was a preacher and a good man and citizen. He died more than 60 years ago. His widow lived to be very old, and was known by all who knew hr, for years and years, as Grandma Chandler. She was a most remarkable character. She didn't weigh more than 100 pounds and yet up to the hour of her death she was vigorous in mind and body. She was a devoted member of the Baptist Church and her husband was a minister in that church for many years.
Grandma Chandler spent most of her time visiting around among her Children: and friends, and her main task was in knitting socks, at which she was an expert. She would walk from Mt. Moriah to Cross Roads the first Saturday in every month to hear preaching, and as she walked along the road, through the pine woods, alone, she would knit on the sock, and thus it often happened that she would knit an entire sock while walking from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Stoker, whose death the writer now mourns, to Cross Roads. She spent much of her time at Uncle Hardy Harrell's home at Cross Roads.
One night after supper in the home of her daughter, she sat before the fire, knitting and toasting her feet. Presently she ceased talking and crossed her hands of her knitting, and laid her head back on the chair for a few moments nodding, before going to bed. The moments went to minutes and in the course of some ten minutes a member of the family went to awaken her and help her to bed when--she was dead, having passed away in sleep, knitting in hand, with a smile on her dear sweet face.
Elias Chandler and his good wife raised a remarkable family of boys and girls. There were five boys and five girls. Of the boys, three were Baptist preachers and the other two devout leaders in the church. Of the girls two or three married preachers (next line is unreadable) ...............Baptist Church. Emiline Chandler and Bill Stoker married when both were young. Their lives were cast over a hard and rocky road but every foot of it was paved with love for each other. If they ever spoke a cross word to each other the writer never heard of it and he knew them both long and intimately. They were sweethearts, from the hour they first met in youth's happy morning, until the shade and shadows of age fall across the quiet landscape of their lives.
Their whole life--both of them, was a song and a benediction, and although old Mt. Moriah, where they lived so long, and where the pure gold of their lives were given into the wool and warp of that locality, will know them no more, the good they did, and the work they did, will live as the years go by, because the Master whom they served will take care of them as eternity merges into eternity in that fair and happy land beyond the grave.
They raised a good family of Children" several of whom are dead. The writer knew them all, back in the old days, and here is his heartfelt sympathy, this dreary day in October, as with them he sheds tears in memory of their dead mother-and what an honor and a blessing it is to have such a mother as Emeline Stoker was.
Henry C. Fuller
Brownwood, Texas
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