100 - Charlie W. Chambers - New Bethel Cemetery - Rossville, Tn - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Charlie W. Chambers is buried at the New Bethel Cemetery along with his wife Emma. It is behind the New Bethel United Methodist Church on Hwy 194 about three miles north of Rossville, Tn in Fayette County.
His date of birth was January 10, 1880.
His date of death was August 3, 1980.

Mr. Chambers would have seen some of the most dramatic increases in technology in the timeframe of his life. Lighter than air flight was a thing of science fiction at his birth, yet 11 years before his death in 1980 men took a spaceship to the moon.

Wars came and went from the indian wars in the West, Spanish-American War, two world wars, Korea and Vietnam. Advances in technology saw people die in the one's and twos to being able to obliterate cities with bombs delivered by missles.

Even though slavery had been ablolished 15 years before his birth, at the time of his birth in Fayette County there was much sharecropping and Jim Crowe laws which amounted to virtually the same thing. The rise of the Civil Rights movement and advances started when he was considered an old man and continued past his age of 100.

Location of Headstone: Church Cemetery

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