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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
Gehial C. Chamberlain, 8 South 43 West
Gehial claimed a quarter in section 35, 8S 43W in 1891.
He might be the same or related to the John L. Chamberlain who claimed land near Flagler, also in 1891.
Twenty-Third Infantry 
He might be the J. L. Chamberlain in 1880 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a mail agent 45 born in Vermont,
with Marion 32 born in Ohio, a sister Menwaa 26 born in Vermont and a son Paul six months.
J.L. Chamberlain of Cleveland in 1883 was a director of the Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley an Wheeling Railroad
In 1910 Cleveland, Jehiel is 66, Marion 51, with Paul R. 20.
Marion L. (Atkinson) Chamberlain 1847-1919 is buried in Lake County, Ohio # 74305427.
"Chamberlain-J. L., age 90 years, passed away Jan. 27 at the home of his son, Paul R. Chamberlain, Dewey, Olka. Funeral Wednesday Jan. 30 at 2 p. m., from Dunham Avenue Christian church."
He's buried in Lake County # 74305535, dying January 27, 1924.
Paul Chamberlain is a chemist in a cement plant in Dewey, Oklahoma in 1920, 39, with Edith M. 35, Paul G. 10, hilip L. 6, and Marie C. 3.
In 1930 Dewey, Paul is 50, Edith M. 44, Paul G. 21, Philip L. 17, and Mary 13.
Paul is in Dewey in 1940, widowed, 60, with daughter Katherine Leunes, 23, and her husband George J. 24. Arnold D. is 1, Palula Jae nine months.
Paul R. Chamberlain, dying 1949 is buried in Dewey, Oklahoma # 68413024, with Edith M. dying 1932.
Paul Gregory Chamberlain, born Feb 24, 1909, died in Sarasota, Florida on June 8, 1988.
He had married Zenobia V. Campbell, 21 on Feb 25, 1923 in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Zenobia, born Sept 8, 1910, died January 1, 2006.
"Mrs. Zenobia Virginia Chamberlain of Lakeland died of lung failure Sunday (Jan. 1, 2006) at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. She was 95.
Born in Randlett, Okla., on Sept. 8, 1910, she came to Lakeland from Sarasota 12 years ago. She was an engineering draftsman for Rock Island Arsenal for 23 years.
Mrs. Chamberlain was preceded in death by her husband, Paul G. Chamberlain. She is survived by her daughters, Edith K. Nelson, Lakeland, and Patricia R. Hedin, Boise, Iowa; and four grandchildren."
Philip Lee Chamberlain, born Feb 28, 1913 in Oklahoma to Paul Chamberlain and Maude Alger, died in Dallas, Texas on Oct 9, 1968.
He was to be buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Dallas.
Mary Katheryn is living with widowed Paul in 1940 Dewey, Oklahoma, married to George J. LeUnes.
"George J. LeUnes passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bryan, Texas late in the morning of September 29, 2006; thirty-one days shy of his 89th birthday. George was adopted at an early age by John LeUnes, a Greek immigrant, and his wife Gertrude. He spent his entire youth in Arkansas City, Kansas where he was an outstanding football and track athlete. Upon graduation from high school, he attended the local junior college where he once again was a top football player.
He later moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and went to work for Phillips Petroleum Company. His work there created in him a deep conviction about the plight of the working man that guided all of his later work. This conviction led him to work for a lengthy period as a labor union organizer and arbitrator. He was also Business Agent for the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local #347, in Texas City in the 1940's and 1950's, He took great pride in the fact that the members of his local were the highest paid union employees in the Gulf Coast petrochemical industry and never went on strike to achieve their salary goals.
As a result of his labor union work, the AFL-CIO rewarded him with a year of study in the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Many of the Harvard faculty members from whom he took classes ended up in Presidents John F. Kennedy's Cabinet in 1960. During his stay in Boston, he was given season tickets to the home games of the Boston Celtics in their heyday, featuring such stars as Bob Cousy, Bill Russell and KC Jones. He quickly became an ardent Celtics fan.
George was forced out of the labor union business in 1960 through no wrongdoing of his own as a result of fallout from the labor racketeering hearings that were being conducted at that time. After trying several new career options, he spent the remainder of his working life as a real estate developer/broker and independent right of way purchasing agent for oil, gas, and chemical companies such as Exxon and Texaco where his considerable diplomacy skills served him well. He was twice named Professional of the Year by the International Right of Way Association (IRWA).
While still in Texas City, he served as Chairman of the Tax Equalization Board, Director of the Bay Area Boy Scouts Council, and was a member of the City Parks and Recreation Board. In the latter capacity, he was the prime force in chartering the Little League Baseball and Texas Teenage Baseball Association programs for the city.
Above and beyond his professional accomplishments, George was a gifted motivational speaker and story teller. He enjoyed regaling friends and relatives with his anecdotes, stories, and observations about a most interesting life. Though he would never have called himself a Biblical scholar, he was regarded that way by his family. He carried his time worn Bible with him everywhere he went and his library was full of many books on religions of all persuasions.
George was preceded in death by his three wives, Marion Katherine Chamberlain LeUnes, June Cox LeUnes and Winona Gowan Stringer LeUnes.
George is survived by three sons and daughter-in-law,
Arnold and Judy LeUnes of College Station,
John LeUnes of Fort Worth, and George Wayne LeUnes of Dallas;
four daughters and sons-in-law, Paula Jo Crossley of Dallas,
Nancy and Guy Williams of Crandall,
Cheryl and Steve Saucedo of Arizona, and Jeniece Weakley of Fort Worth. He is further survived by 18 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
As requested by George, there will be no service. He will be buried near his third wife, Winona, and his parents in Riverview Cemetery in Arkansas City, Kansas."
On Sunday afternoon, Arnold LeUnes' was enjoying a celebratory 79th birthday meal with his family at Willie's Grill and Icehouse when two of his students surprised him with a Class of 1960 Aggie Ring. Shaking out of excitement, he kindly accepted the ring and thanked his students, Sophie Roberts and Jacqueline Gutierrez, over roaring applause.
It was 34 years ago when Arnold LeUnes lost his original Aggie Ring to a house fire caused by a gas unit in the ceiling. His six children and wife, Judy, are his most important concern, so he had never purchased a replacement ring during their upbringing. Sophie Roberts, kinesiology junior, heard this story on the first day of his abnormal psychology class last semester and felt compelled to start a GoFundMe campaign that October to raise money to buy him a replacement ring.
"It's exciting; I haven't had a ring for 34 or 35 years," LeUnes said.
Roberts said although LeUnes is a reserved man by nature, she could tell he was pleased with the surprise reveal.
"He's kind of quiet," Roberts said. "I think he is very happy … I feel like getting it replaced by students who love and adore you is more special than when he probably got it the first time."
One table over from the LeUnes family, a group of students was finishing their meals at the time of the ring reveal. Robert Eichhorn, business administration sophomore, and Emma Wiegand, health junior, were both emotionally affected by the surprise.
"I definitely teared up, I got a little emotional," Eichhorn said. "That's the power of the Aggie family. It's crazy to see, it's something you can't replicate, it's just a feeling you have. You see something like that, and it's amazing."
Wiegand shared these sentiments. She said the weekend had been filled with overwhelming Aggie spirit from Friday's Muster Ceremony and the Aggie Ring reveal she witnessed.
"I just think it's a beautiful thing that obviously he made such an impact on these two students' lives that they would go out of their way to raise the funds to replace that Aggie Ring," Wiegand said. "They said that he gave 51 years of service to Texas A&M and I just think that's amazing. It's just something that you would never see happen anywhere else, and that's just a part of the reason that makes Texas A&M so special."
To plan the reveal, Roberts reached out to LeUnes' wife, Judy. She gave Roberts a zip tie to measure his ring size, which she then took to James Avery for an estimate. They had originally planned to give him the ring in December, but after medical complications in the family, the two decided on his birthday celebration.
"Sophie called, and I didn't know her, and she said, 'We want to raise money, is this okay?'" Judy LeUnes said. "What I think is so wonderful, to them, that was the greatest compliment that they could give him an Aggie Ring that he had lost, because they cared so much about him."
Judy LeUnes said it was touching to see the importance of the Aggie family come to life during this experience.
"For that to be that important to these kids, really touched me," Judy LeUnes said. "Once an Aggie, always an Aggie. I'm just real excited; now he'll probably have the shiniest Class of '60 Aggie Ring ever."
After LeUnes' 51 years of teaching at the university, Gutierrez said it felt like giving him a ring was the right thing to do.
"It really was the Aggie responsibility, just to pay for all the years of service he has given our campus," Gutierrez said.
LeUnes' large family knew about the surprise and worked to keep the secret until the reveal. His son, Chay LeUnes, traveled from Cypress and was glad to see his Dad receive his Aggie Ring.
"Well he's 79; it's about time he got his Aggie Ring back," Chay LeUnes said.
"He was delighted, so I was too. That was great to see - I mean, the smile on his face was awesome."
Over the years of being a professor, LeUnes has created a memoire of the students who have impacted his life.
"The kids have been wonderful," LeUnes said. "I've written a 1,000-page memoir about my years at A&M and I have a tribute of 1,000 students from 1966 to today, who I consider huge parts of my life … You could not be treated better by the students than I have been."
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