My Family Tree

notes from Shari & Ken Knight, Hale family researchers:
Where was Rachel Chambers after John died? She is not listed as a head of household in the 1830 census, nor does she seem to fit in with John II, George, James, or Edmond. Perhaps she died. Hale's records list her as dying after 1824, the DAR lists that she died after 1850 (But the DAR also lists her as being born Rachel Welton in Louisville, Jefferson, KY in 1765 [her daughter Rachel was born in Lousville and married a Welton]. Also, that part of the country was still Virginia in 1765, and Daniel Boone didn't move his family there until 1773/4.
Rachel, wife of John, was apparently a "camp follower" during the Revolutionary War. The "famous" slander case between John Chambers & wife and Thomas Young & wife was actually between the women. Mrs Young was accused of gossiping about Mrs Chambers and calling her many "ugly names" including "murderess and adulteress". The murderess came from the fact that Mrs Chambers had allowed her daughter-in-law and Youngs daughter, Margaret Young Chambers to die while she [Rachel] caroused around town. The adulteress came from stories about how Mrs Chambers came to have a "bad reputation" in the army and in Louisville.
The DAR lists her name as Weldon. Orville Hale claims the DAR info came from an interview with him, but the woman misunderstood him about the name Weldon. He was refering to Rachel the daughter, who married a Weldon, not the mother. (KKnight, 1990)

A study of the first families of White Oak Springs -
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/7241/8195
Shows some other families came from Hampshire Co, VA at about the same time. Claims John Chambers came in 1809, but White Oak Springs "after the Battle of Tippecanoe" in 1811:
Wease brothers in 1810
Pancake brothers in 1810
Ashby brothers in 1813
and these: Davisson, Welton, -->Radcliffe<--. Teverbaughm, Butler, Milbourn, Miles, Shook, Tevault, Risley, Corn, Arnold, Leonard, and MacBride.
-in-law David Wease had a sister Rachel born 1794, possible common name in the family.

kdd: I have found numerous DNA matches to descendants of Daniel Stephens Radcliff b.1714 VA d.21 Oct 1784 Brushy Fork of Elk Creek, Lewis, VA who lived in Hampshire Co, VA/WV, and especially, some share the same DNA segment as my Hale/Chambers cousins, and Rachel is a common given name in this line.

, "a good, true, honest, just, faithful, discreet, chaste and virtuous citizen of the State of Indiana". A jury of "good and lawful men" agreed with this characterisation in Pike County, Indiana about 1818.