Black male, about 76 years old at the time of his death on 1 December 1927. According to his death certificate, he was a resident of the Escambia County Poor Farm, also his place of death. He was a widower, his occupation was given as laborer at a saw mill. He was born in Escambia County, Florida, but nothing was known about his parents. He had been in town about 2 months before he died. The Superintendent of the Poor Farm, J.R. Steward, was the informant on the certificate. The cause of death was parenchymatous nephritis, for which he had been treated for 11 months before his passing. [This seeming contradiction with Steward’s assertion Chambers had been in town for only two months may stem from Chambers work in a sawmill – many of these were located outside city limits.] Dr. V.R. Nobles signed the death certificate, and he was buried at the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery the date after his death by T.M. Lloyd, undertaker.
A Bud Chambers was charged with and convicted of gambling in 1901. He was confined in the county jail for 30 days in default of payment of the $10 fine. Bud Chambers and John Trice were fined $15 or 60 days at hard labor for “beating their way” on trains in 1903.
I see no other mentions of Bud or Buddie Chambers in local records, though there is plenty more searching to be done. My fear is that “Buddie” is a nickname and it may be next to impossible to confirm his identity without more information.
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death for Buddie Chambers (No. 18667), Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
“To-day’s Session of Criminal Court,” The Daily News [Pensacola, Florida]. 14 SEP 1901, p. 5.
“Judge Fined Seven Today,” The Daily News [Pensacola, Florida]. 16 DEC 1903, p. 8.