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On the 1910 census for Hamblen Co., TN, there is a listing for a Jerry Chamberlain, 28, wife Una, 27, and 4 daughters. Jerry is identified as a farm laborer. Children’s names (and ages) are given as Kathleen, 8, Elizabeth, 6, Minnie, 3, and Helen, 1. The couple go on to indicate that both they and their daughters were b. in TN and that they have been married to one another for 10 yrs.
A decade later—on the Knox Co., TN, census for 1920—the family reappears. This time, Jerry’s age is put at 39, while Una’s is given as 38. What seem to be the same 4 daughters are listed: Katherine, 15; Lizzie, 14; Ellen, 11, and Minnie, 10. Now Jerry is employed as a picker for a cotton mill, Una works at the same place as a spooler, and both Katherine and Lizzie are listed as spinners. The family resides on Lawrence Alley, in the 8th ward, 20th dist. of Knoxville. Indeed, on his 1917-1918 WWI draft registration card, Jerry had stated that he was 38 yrs. old in 1918. Here, he also made mention of wife “Unie” and of living on Lawrence Alley.
There is a listing for Jerry C. and Una M. Chamberlain also in the 1926 Knoxville city directory (p. 602), in which “B’side Mills” (i.e., Brookside Mills) is given as the name of Jerry’s place of employment (i.e., the cotton mill mentioned above), and “26 Marion” as the couple’s place of residence (not Lawrence Alley). And in 1930, Jerry, Una, and 1 of their 4 daughters again turn up on the Knox Co., TN, enumeration. Now, Jerry is listed as 51,Una as 49. Living with them are daughter “Hellen” Chamberlain, 22 (apparently a single mother), and granddaughter Mary, 3 mos. Only Jerry is gainfully employed; as in 1910, he is working as a farm laborer. (It may be harder for some to find the 1930 listing for this family, since the Ancestry.com transcription eroneously calls them “Jacy” and “Vonie.”)
So far, this is all that I have been able to piece together on Jerry and Una Chamberlain and family. It is enough, however, to raise a number of questions:
1) Who were the parents of Jerry Chamberlain? What was the maiden name of wife Una, and who were her parents? (I ask the first question, of course, because I am wondering if Jerry was somehow related to the E. TN Chamberlains who descend from Ninian Chamberlain [c1719-c1798], as I do. This is a family that is full of “Jeremiahs” and “Jerrys,” both in the TN branch and in the branch that moved to MO then on to TX in the 1840s. But, to date, I have been unable to make any connection between my E. TN Chamberlains and the Jerry C. in question.)
2) Where and when were Jerry and Una married? And where are their census listings-- either still living with parents or living together as newlyweds--for 1900?
3) Were they living in Hamblen Co. in 1910 simply because one or both had grown up there? (If so, from which Chamberlain family in Hamblen Co. did Jerry come?) Or were they living in Hamblen for some other reason?
4) Was daughter Helen ever married and, if so, to whom? Or did she have a child out of wedlock, as the use of her Chamberlain maiden name for both herself and her daughter on the 1930 census might suggest? And what ever became of Jerry and Una’s other three daughters?
Perhaps there is an easy answer to Jerry’s family identity that, for whatever reason, is simply eluding me. At any rate, any help that other researchers may be able to render will be duly appreciated.
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