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THE CHANDLER FAMILY

The Order Books of Caroline county show that the Chandler
family was prominent in the life of the county as early as 1734.
In Order Book, No. 1, (1732-1740) page 149, mention is made
of the deeds of lands of Timothy Chandler and Justin, his wife.
On page 518 of the same book is recorded an order "That Robert
Woolfolk, Timothy Chandler and Moses Hart (or Hurt) lay off
the most convenient road from the Mattaponi River across
Polecat Swamp to Chesterfield church."

There is a tradition, with much historical color, that three
men of the name Chandler came from Essex, England to Roxbury,

Mass., in 1637 and one of these, William Chandler, settled at
Roxbury; one, Timothy Chandler, came to Maryland; and one,
Robert Chandler, came still farther south and settled in Virginia.

Chandler Arms

It is significant that the Massachusetts, Maryland and Virginia
families bear the same arms, of which the following is a description:

Arms:

Chequy argent and azure, on a bend engrailed sable,
three lions passant or.

Crest:

A pelican sable, in her piety, vert.

Motto:

Ad mortem fidelis.

Robert Chandler died circa 1803 and his will, according to
Caroline Order Books, was probated that year. He left four
sons and four daughter. (1) Henry, (2) William, (3) Edmund,
(4) Robert, (5) Molly who m. — Bibb, (6) Fanny who m.
—Hackett, (7) Sally who m. — Jones and (8) Lucy.

Robert Chandler was evidently a churchman for his name is
found on one of the early Legislative Petitions from Caroline,
praying that body to continue the establishment. The petition
was drawn by Edmund Pendleton whose name heads the list,
and the name of Chandler is second.

William Chandler, second son of Robert, I, married Ann
(sometimes called Nancy) Coleman and had issue: (1) Lucy
who m. James Smith, (2) Elizabeth who m. Benjamin Coleman,
(3) Rebecca who m. John Smith, (4) Thomas Coleman who m.
Clemantine Alsop, of Spotsylvania county.

Clemantine Alsop was the daughter of Samuel Alsop, a wealthy
planter of Spotsylvania, whose will is of record in that county
and was probated in 1859. This will names his old and infirm
slaves and provides that they must not be sold, but cared for
"at the expense of my estate."

The mother of Clementine Alsop was Dorothea Campbell of
Caroline. This Campbell family has its seat at "Poplar Grove"
near Golansville. Dorothea Campbell had brothers, Matthew,
Elliott and William; and one sister, Mary, who married a Mr.
Henderson. These Campbells were of the Duke of Argyle clan.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson had a daughter who married one Mr.
Reynolds and whose descendants live in Richmond.

Members of the foregoing branch of the Chandler family
have intermarried with members of the Kay, Campbell, Tompkins,
Coleman and other families and have numerous descendants in Virginia
and elsewhere. Thomas Kay Chandler, who died in Newport
News in 1920, was a son of Thomas Coleman Chandler who
married Miss Alsop. He (Thomas Kay Chandler) married the
daughter of Dr. Benjamin Anderson, who was a brother of Henry
Tompkins Anderson, the famous educator and translator. Thos.
K. Chandler and his wife had issue: (1) Boyd D. Chandler, who
m. Miss Jennie Frazer, of "Coventry" in Spotsylvania and had
issue one daughter, Anne Boyd, who m. J. H. Rives, attorney of
Richmond; (2) Roberta, who m. J. E. Warren, of Newport News
and had issue one son, Bankhead Warren.

One of Thomas Coleman Chandler's brothers, Dr. Joseph A.
Chandler, married Emuella Josephine White by whom he had
several children, among them two sons, Julian Alvin Carroll
Chandler and Campbell Chandler. J. A. C. Chandler, m. Lenore
Burton Duke, of Churchlands, Va., and had issue three sons.
Campbell Chandler, m. Annie Beasley, daughter of Chas. E.
Beasley and Mary Jane Chandler, and had issue one son and
one daughter, Charles and Jane Campbell. Campbell Chandler
died in 1918 and his widow and two children reside at "Idlewild"
near Guinea, which was built by Dr. Joseph Chandler. Dr.
Chandler also built "Spring Grove" near Guinea which is now
owned and occupied by his nephew, Cutler Beasley. Thomas
Coleman Chandler, father of Dr. Joseph A. Chandler owned
"Fairfield" near Guinea, when Stonewall Jackson died there.

"Burton Hall" stands on a beautiful knoll a few hundred yards
from "Idlewild" and is owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Flippo. Mrs. Flippo is a sister of Mrs. Campbell
Chandler, who owns "Idlewild." "Burton Hall" was built by
President J. A. C. Chandler, of William and Mary College, and
named for his wife, Lenore Burton Duke. These two homes
are among the most beautiful in Caroline, and within their walls

the Old Virginia spirit and hospitality still survive in all their
glory.

Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler was born circa 1730, and
married Sarah Tompkins and had issue several children, among
them being Timothy Chandler and Robert Chandler, who is
mentioned in the foregoing as a co-petitioner with Edmund
Pendleton. Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler is buried at "Broomfield"
in Caroline.

Timothy Chandler, son of Rev. Richard Woolfolk Chandler,
was born September 29, 1761, and was married circa, 1788, to
Lucy Temple, daughter of Captain Samuel Temple and Fanny
Redd, of Caroline. Captain Temple was sworn into service in
the Revolutionary War in November, 1777, according to McAlister's
Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, page 333.
See also Virginia Magazine (published by Virginia Historical
Society) Vol. 7, p. 20. Militia section No. 223, p. 165; also No.
257 of Caroline and Virginia Library Report, vol. 1912, p. 431.
Captain Samuel Temple, of Caroline, is listed in Auditor's Accounts
of 1779, p. 155, and in Council Journals of 1782-3, pps. 125-209.

The children of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple were:
Samuel Temple, Norborne E., Frances R., Leroy, John, Hugh,
and Timothy, Jr. The last named died young. Norborne E.
Chandler removed to Mobile, Ala., and there married Miss
Rebecca B. Wiggins. Hon. A. B. Chandler at one time owned
portraits of this couple, representing the wife as a very beautiful
woman, and the husband as a man of strong intellect and character.
He was shown with the old goose quill pen in hand and full ruffled
shirt bosom, and she with the quaint dress and coiffure of that
period. Samuel Temple Chandler, married a Miss Todd and
settled in Rockbridge county, Va., and had two sons, Samuel
Temple, Jr., a doctor of medicine, and Norborne E., and one
daughter, Maria, who married Madison L. Effinger, of Rockbridge.
Both sons married daughters of one Grigsby family, of
Rockbridge.

The widow of Samuel Temple Chandler and a number of his
children removed to St. Louis, Mo., where they and their descendants
became prominent. The children of Norborne E.
Chandler went to Chicago where they became wealthy and
prominent men. Frances R. married Fleming James, a prosperous
merchant of Richmond. Leroy Chandler removed to
Missouri, where his descendants are numerous and prominent

today. He was twice married. Hugh Chandler married Miss
Virginia Wyatt, of Caroline, and by her had William Timothy
Chandler who married Alice E. Scott, daughter of Francis W.
Scott, of Caroline. Mrs. Alice Scott Chandler founded Bowling
Green Female Seminary, which is now located at Beuna Vista,
Va., under the name of Southern Seminary. William Timothy
Chandler, her husband, practiced law in Bowling Green. John
Chandler married Miss Ella Cook, of Norfolk or Portsmouth, and
had no issue.

John Chandler, son of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple,
was born in November, 1801. He was married on November
26, 1836, to Lucy Ann Coleman, the daughter of Benjamin Coleman
and Elizabeth Chandler, of Caroline. To this union were born
two children: Betty Ann in 1837, who married Dr. Samuel Dickenson,
and Algernon Bertrand Chandler, in 1843. A very fine portrait
of John Chandler is now owned by his grandson, Algernon
Bertrand Chandler, Jr., President of the State Teacher's College
at Fredericksburg, Va.

Algernon Bertrand Chandler, Sr., son of John Chandler and
Lucy Ann Coleman, was born at "Woodlawn" in Caroline county,
August 16, 1843, and educated at Washington and Lee University.
He was married on September 10, 1867, to Julia Yates
Callaghan, of Fincastle, Va. To this union were born nine
children: (1) W. Temple, who was drowned at age of 14; (2)
Algernon Bertrand, Jr., (3) John Washington, who lived and
died in Houston, Tex.; (4) Ferdinand Wiley, attorney in Bowling
Green; (5) Julia Yeatts, (6) Charles Guy, (7) Lucy and (8)
Landon Spencer, twins; and (9) Edith Temple.

Leroy Chandler, son of Timothy Chandler and Lucy Temple,
who has already been mentioned, was twice married—first, to
Elvira Copeland in Richmond, Va., on October 8, 1817, and, second,
to Sarah Ann Quarles, of Belmont, Louisa county, on April 21, 1825.

To Leroy Chandler and Elvira Copeland were born three
daughters: (1) Frances Eliza, b. August 28, 1818; (2) Lucy Temple,
b. January 20, 1820; (3) Virginia Ann, b. December 2, 1821.
Frances Eliza married John W. Conner at Glen Burnie, Mo.,
June 6, 1838. Lucy Temple married James R. Payne at Glen
Burnie, Mo., December 5, 1837. Virginia Ann married—first,
Dr. John Field at Belmont, October 29, 1851; second, Jacob
Keiser, of Woodlandville, Mo., on February 22, 1855.

To Leroy Chandler and Sarah Ann Quarles, his second wife,

were born thirteen children: (1) Charles Quarles, (2) Timothy,
(3) Elvira Copeland, (4) Margaret Mills, (5) Mary Lewis, (6)
John, (7) James (John and James twins), (8) Maria Louisa,
(9) Sarah Ann, (10) Susan Henry, (11) Florence M., (12) Robert
Leroy, (13) Kelly R.

Charles Quarles Chandler, eldest son of Leroy, was born
January 26, 1826, at Belmont (or Belle Mont), Missouri. He
married Ann Elizabeth Woods on October 10, 1861, and had
issue: C. Q. Chandler, Jr., banker at Wichita, Kansas, and Mattie
Leroy Chandler, who married H. J. Hammond, banker, and who
for many years lived at Clayton, N. M.

Timothy Chandler, son of Leroy and Sarah Ann Quarles,
married Louisa Temple, daughter of Dr. Peter Temple, and
made his home at Lexington, Mo.

Elvira Copeland Chandler, dau. of Leroy, married Dr. Francis
Carr in 1852 and had issue Frank E., John H., and Nannie.
Frank E., a banker at Wellington, Kans., married and had four
sons. John married and lived in St. Louis, Mo. He had two
children. Nannie married Dr. — Ridgeway and removed to
Seattle, Washington. They had two daughters.

Margaret Miles Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. Augustus Goodman,
of Gordonsville, Va., and had issue three daughters and
two sons.

Mary Lewis Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. Oren Tucker and
had issue three daughters and two sons, all of whom live in St.
Louis, Mo.

John and James Chandler were twin sons of Leroy. John
was twice married and left at his death one daughter by his
first wife and an infant son by his second. James left at his
death one son who married and removed to Kansas City, Mo.

Mary Louisa, dau. of Leroy, m. Henry McPherson and had
issue one daughter and two sons.

Sarah Ann, dau. of Leroy, m. Thomas L. Tucker and had
issue ten children, all of whom reside in Cooper county, Miss.

Susan Henry, dau. of Leroy, m., first, James Wallace by whom
she had a son and daughter, and, second, to a Mr. Collins, of
Kansas City, Mo.

Florence M. Chandler, dau. of Leroy, m. a Mr. Ferguson
and lived in Booneville, Mo.

Robert Leroy Chandler, son of Leroy, died at age of 28 unmarried.

Kelly R. Chandler, son of Leroy, m. Sarah Bowles and had
issue one son. They lived in St. Louis, Mo.

At the opening of the twentieth century there were six
children of Leroy Chandler living—one by his first wife and
five by the last. They were: Mrs. Virginia Keiser (by the first
wife), Woodlandsville, Mo.; Mrs. Mary L. Tucker, St. Louis,
Mo.; Mrs. Maria L. McPherson, Booneville, Mo.; Mrs. Susan
H. Collins, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Florence M. Ferguson,
Booneville, Mo., and Kelly R. Chandler, St. Louis, Mo.

Further light on the Chandler family and on Caroline county
is given by the following: