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Submitted by: Isabel Vandervelde
Email address: VanceDV@msn.com
 

Husband: Simon PIERCE
Birthdate: 1841
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: 25 February 1877
Place of death: Jackson County Iowa
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: 6 July 1869
Marriage place: Jackson County Iowa

Wife: Sarah Sophia NEWBERRY
Birthdate: 9 June 1843
Birthplace: Jackson County Iowa
Death date: 9 June 1917
Place of death: Sioux Falls, SD
Father: Ansel Newberry
Mother: Sarah A. Tobin

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Mary Alice Pierce
Sex: F
Birthdate: 8 September 1870
Birthplace: Jackson County Iowa
Death date: 1879
Place of death: Jackson County Iowa
Marriage date: none
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: none

Child No. 2: Viola Pierce
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11 April 1872
Birthplace: Miles, Jackson County Iowa
Death date: 1 December 1959
Place of death: Bernadotte, Fulton Co. Illinois
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: South Dakota
Spouse's name: First, Lowery

Child No. 3: Danae Sarah Pierce
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 March 1875
Birthplace: Miles, Jackson County Iowa
Death date: 16 January, 1962
Place of death: McDonough, Illinois
Marriage date: 8 August 1894
Marriage place: Delmont, Douglas Co. SD
Spouse's name: Francis Marion Chambers

Child No. 4: Minnie Pierce
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 April 1877
Birthplace: Jackson County, Iowa
Death date: unknown
Place of death:
Marriage date: 16 November 1896
Marriage place: Armour, Douglas Co. SD
Spouse's name: Danforth Quinn Millay
 

Documentation:
U.S.Censuses Iowa 1860, 1870, 1880, SD 1900, 1910, 1920.
Death and burial lists of Jackson County Iowa, Marriages of Jackson
County Iowa. Homestead Records of Douglas County South Dakota. Marriages
of Douglas County, County Courthouse, Armour SD., Death Certificate of
William Chambers, Death Certificate of Sarah Newberry Pierce Chambers,
Death Certificate of Danae Pierce Chambers, Death Certificate of Viola
Pierce Campbell. Cemetery listings of Fulton county Illinois, Cemetery
listings of Minnehaha County, Sioux Falls, S.D. Cemetery listings of
Delmont City Cemetery, Armour Cemetery.  Death Certificate of Danforth
Quinn Millay, Millay family history book from family of LeRoy Millay,
Marriage license and application of F.M.Chambers and Danae Pierce. Family
tales and traditions from L.J. and Lillie Chambers Manbeck, collected by
daughters Gladys Manbeck Hansen and Hilda Manbeck Vandervelde. Book,
Centennial celebration of Delmont, published 1986, Centennial of Douglas
County, published 1980. Obituary of Sarah Chambers, Sioux Falls Argus
Leader files, Obituary of William Chambers, sioux Falls Argus Leader
files, Pension File of Sarah Newberry Pierce Chambers, containing the
service record of both her veteran husbands, Simon Pierce who served in
the 2nd Iowa Cavalry from Jackson County Iowa, and William Chambers who
served in the Union Army Infantry from LaSalle County, Illinois, from the
National Archives.