Ira Chambers

    Ira Chambers, farmer, Monroe Township, is a native of Jefferson County, Indiana, was born December 7, 1842, was raised on a farm and is still living on one; he was educated in the common schools of the county. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted in the three months' service, at the call for 300,000 more soldiers by the President of the United States; he enlisted in the Tenth Indiana Cavalry, and was in all the engagements of his regiment, until he was taken prisoner at Huntsville, Alabama, on the 14th day of December, 1864. He remained a prisoner at Andersonville four months and thirteen days, when he escaped and found his way to the Union lines at Jacksonville, Florida, on April 29, 1865. After his discharge at the close of the war he returned home, and settled down to the quite life of a farmer.

    He was married in 1865, to Miss Nancy J. Patton, daughter of Robert R. Patton, of North Madison. They have a family of seven children: Burdett, Charles, Mollie, Harry, Willie, Frank and Stella.

    Mr. Chambers has a comfortable little home and enjoys himself in life. He is a man prematurely old in consequence of exposure and injuries received while in the army. His father is Mr. James Chambers, a farmer of Monroe Township (see his sketch). Mr. Ira Chambers is a member of the G. A. R.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.