Margaret Chambers

Margaret Chambers

• Father: William Chambers b. say 1750
• Mother: Sarah Osborne b. say 1750

• Margaret Chambers was born circa 1780 in Montgomery County, North Carolina.
• She was known as Peggy.
• She married John LeGrand, son of James LeGrand and Elizabeth Wade, on 23 April 1800 in Person County, North Carolina, with Joseph McGehee and Jesse Dickens serving as bondsmen/witnesses.
• Margaret Chambers became a widow at the 21 January 1816 death of her husband John LeGrand.
• She married Andrew Wade say 1817.
• The following appeared on 20 February 1824 in the Raleigh Register & North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser: Married, On the 29th ult. at the residence of Andrew Wade, Esq. Montgomery county, Mr. William B. Hall, merchant, of this city, to Miss Sarah O. LeGrand.
• Margaret Chambers died circa 1845.
• Research Note: It is an educated guess, based on a great deal of circumstantial evidence, that Margaret Chambers and Nancy Chambers were sisters. Further confirmation is necessary, but this likely will be proved to the satisfaction of interested researchers.
• Mr. A. Lyttle, a lawyer of Wadesboro wrote a letter on October 11, 1858, in which he says: "Wm. C. LeGrand who married Jane Paul, I have long been associated with. His mother's name was Margaret Chambers and his father's name was John LeGrand. After the death of John LeGrand his mother married Andrew Wade. William C. LeGrand ran through all his property and was supplied in part with all the necessaries of life by my wife's former husband, Dr. McRee, and herself as she was a cousin of W.C.L. He was a fine man but a bad manager. Both he and his wife's family were highly respectable."
       Quoted from Helen Johnstone Rose's book Our Family History: Johnstone, LeGrand, MacGillivray, Maclaren (1981), kindly shared by her nephew John B. Johnstone.
• The following is from a letter of James L. Beverly of Wadesboro, North Carolina, written on April 12, 1891, copied in longhand by Aunt Margaret in 1902. "Jane Green Paul married William C. LeGrand on March 10, 1829. They lived near Wadesboro, North Carolina. His brother Edwin O. LeGrand married and moved to Texas. The girls all married. James and John LeGrand were last heard from just before the late war. They were quite thrifty old bachelors, owning valuable mill property and a large whiskey distillery in Burk[e] County, North Carolina. When John LeGrand died he left his children well, but William C. was fond of high life and after he married, went through all his property. They lived with Duncan McRee, his wife's cousin, and his wife in the same house. William failed in business and sold his land to the McRees. He taught school for a while. There is no stain on the character of any of the LeGrands. They are very fine people."
       Quoted from Helen Johnstone Rose's book Our Family History: Johnstone, LeGrand, MacGillivray, Maclaren (1981), kindly shared by her nephew John B. Johnstone.

• Last Edited: 15 Oct 2014

• Charts: Descendants of LeGRAND John & Margaret Chambers