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JOEL
CHANDLER 1789 -- ca 1865 |
Joel Chandler was born 6 July 1789 in Greenville District, South Carolina the son of Shadrack and Lydia Chandler. The family lived on a farm in the Horseshoe Creek area on the Reedy River near many other Chandler families.
Joel and Rosey Gunnell were married on December 23, 1813 in Greeneville, South Carolina. Rosey had been born on June 16, 1792.
Joel and Rosey were the parents of seven children when she died at the age of 35, possibly during childbirth. Their seventh child, Clarissa, was born 13 January 1827, and may have died at birth. Their children were, James Washington, William Jackson, Lewis Wilson, John Hampton, Joe Allen, Nancy Emily, and Clarissa.
Joel served in William Cannon's SC Militia during the War of 1812. He enlisted at Greenville, SC in January 1812, in Captain Joshua Ingram’s company Regiment S.C. militia and was discharged at Powellton, Georgia in July 1814. In his pension application Joel stated that he had served “under the orders of General Jackson in the Creek Nation and was present at the surrender of the Indian Chief Weatherford.”
After Rosey's death in ca. 1827, Joel married a second time. Her name was Nancy and she had been born February 22, 1804 in South Carolina. He maiden name is not known.
Joel and Nancy were the parents of seven children. The first two, Mary and Posy were born in 1830 and 1832 in Dekalb County, Georgia. The third and fourth, Thomas Jefferson and David Franklin were born in 1834 and 1836, in Gwinette County, Georgia. The fifth and sixth, Jessie Cleveland and Newton Jasper, were born in Henry County, Georgia, and the youngest, Josiah Marion was born in Cherokee County, Alabama.
Joel often moved as new Indian lands were opened. He was in Dekalb, Georgia by 1830 and later went to Gwinette then Henry Counties in Georgia. Before that he may have been in Cherokee County, Alabama because Goodspeed's History of Arkansas stated that Joel's son, James W., came to Cherokee County, Alabama at a young age and grew to manhood there. Joel was in Dunklin, Missouri for a time and possibly Robertson County, Tennessee.
Joel often accompanied his father as he moved to new lands. After Shadrack died Joel moved back to Cherokee County, Alabama. His last child was born there in 1846, and he was still living there at age 71 in 1860. He owned a plantation valued at $1000 and personal property of $1025.
At the age of 82, Joel made application for his War of 1812 pension. At that time (January 1872) Joel Chandler was in Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri. The pension application was witnessed by E. H. Chandler.
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