Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church & Cemetery - Arlington, Tn
N 35° 12.775 W 089° 41.933
16S E 254331 N 3899992
Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church and Cemetery is located on Chambers Chapel Road in Arlington, Tn. Many early settlers to the area are buried here.
Waymark Code: WM6J46
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 06/08/2009
Views: 11
Marker text (church side):
Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church
Martha Ann Vaughan Chambers donated an acre of land near Chambers Mineral Springs as a site for a Methodist Eiscopal Church South on Nov. 6, 1869. Three wooden frame buildings have stood on this location. The first was built in 1870 and destroyed by a tornado about twenty years later. The second, a large one-room frame church burned on Dec. 4, 1927. The third was build in 1928 and had a brick facade added in 1959. The original trustees for the church were Madison H. Chambers, Dr. Fred T. Sweet, Lt. Col James Mortimer Crews (CSA), John James and W.P. Thompson. Witnesses to the 1896 deed were Henry Talbot Bragg and William A. Redd.
Marker text (cemetery side):
Chambers Chapel Cemetery
Many early Shelby County settlers ofthe Arlington area and generations of their descendants are interred in the adjoining church cemetery. This cemetery in endowed for continuing use of member families with perpetual care ensured.
Chambers Chapel Road is named for the church and burial grounds.
The church's cornerstone inscription read:
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1870 - 1892 - 1928
The 1928 Building Committee was:
H.S. Bragg, A.W. Herring, F.E. Adams, I.F. Russell, F.S. Bragg, M. Gotten, and J.E. Griffin.
Marker Name: Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church/Chambers Chapel Cemetery
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker Number: No Code
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Shelby County Historical Commission and Chambers Chapel United Methdist Church
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