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Submitted: 12/1/10 • Approved: 10/10/16 • Last Updated: 10/13/16 • R420562-G420562-S3
SERGEANT
Compnay K 11 Missouri Infantry
Civil War Confederate
September 8, 1840 - July 2, 1924
*Obituary
Benton County Record
Friday, July 11, 1924
George Chancellor, a well known resident as well as one of the early settlers of Osage Mills community, died at his home one mile north of that place on Wednesday, July 2nd, 1924 from an illness of about three months. A cancer is said to have caused his death. Mr. Chancellor was born near Parkersburg, W. Va. September 8th, 1840. When a small child he moved with his parents to North Missouri. He came to Arkansas in 1870 and homesteaded 40 acres of land in the Osage Valley where he lived continuously until his death. He became acquainted with Miss Laura Wilson, daughter of James and Rachel Wilson, soon after locating here and the two were married in September 1874. To them were born six children, two of whom died in infancy. Two sons, Frank Chancellor of Fullerton, Cal. and Henry Chancellor who lives in Louisiana and two daughters, Mrs. Minta Walls and Mrs. Mable Walls, both of Fullerton, and his widow survive him. Mr. Chancellor was converted in 1895 and has been an active member of the old Temperance Hill Baptist church since that time. He was an old Confederate soldier and spent four years in the army. Funeral services were conducted Thursday by Rev. Rice of Springdale with burial in the Temperance Hill cemetery.
Laura
1853 - July 13, 1930
*Obituary
Benton County Herald
Thursday, July 17, 1930
CHANCELLOR, Laura WILSON - The body of Mrs. Laura Chancellor, who died at the Arkansas Confederate Home near Little Rock, was brought back to Benton County Monday morning for burial and funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Temperance Hill Baptist Church near Osage Mills. Burial was in the Temperance Hill cemetery. Mrs. Chancellor was the widow of the late George Chancellor, widely known Confederate veteran and pioneer Benton County citizen.
*Obituary
Rogers Daily News
Monday, July 14, 1930
Mrs. Laura Chancellor, 76, a pioneer Benton county resident, died Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the Confederate home at Little Rock following an illness of two years. Mrs. Chancellor was a life-long resident of Benton county and had made her home near Osage Mills for the last 50 years. Funeral services will be conducted at Old Temperance Hill, near Osage Mills, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with A.D. Callison in charge of arrangements. She is survived by four children, Frank Chancellor, Fullerton, Calif.; Mrs. Clint Walls, Grandview, Ark.; Henry Chancellor, who has not been heard from for a number of years and Mrs. Mable Malls of Fullerton, Calif. She is also survived by two brothers and one sister, Ben Wilson, Healing Springs; Bob Wilson, Healing Springs and Mrs. John Hitt, Healing Springs.
And two infant sons.
Contributed on 12/1/10 by judyfrog
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