Robert A. Sample and Mary Simpson

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Husband Robert A. Sample ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Robert A. Semple,4 Robert Anderson Semple 5
           Born: 10 Dec 1793 - East Liberty Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 1886 6
         Buried: 

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         Father: Col. James Sample (1756/1756-1830/1830) 2 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Christiana Taggart (1755/1755-1829) 9 11

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       Marriage: 

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• Residence: : Hampton Twp, Allegheny Co, PA.

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Wife Mary Simpson ^{2 5 6}

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           Born: 19 Oct 1799 - Bucks Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Jul 1885 1
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M James Sample ^{6 12}

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            AKA: James Semple 5
           Born: 10 Apr 1820 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1889
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Ross (      -      ) 5 13

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2 M Dr. John Semple ^{4 14}

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            AKA: John Sample 1 2
           Born: 16 Feb 1822 - Allegheny Co, PA 2 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Oct 1901 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Isabella Russell Smith (      -1852) 4 15
           Marr: 20 Mar 1848 4 15

         Spouse: Nancy Thompson (      -1895) 4 15
           Marr: 8 Jun 1854 4 15

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3 M David Sample ²

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            AKA: David Semple 5
           Born: 8 Feb 1824 2
     Christened: 
           Died: in childhood
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M William Sample ²

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            AKA: William Semple 5
           Born: 31 Aug 1825 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1847
         Buried: 

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5 F Eliza Hannah Sample ^{2 4}

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            AKA: Eliza Semple 5
           Born: 4 Oct 1827 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Hutchman (      -      ) 2

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6 F Mary Jane Sample ^{2 4}

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            AKA: Mary Semple 5
           Born: 3 Apr 1830 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1848
         Buried: 

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7 F Sarah Sample ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Sarah Semple 5
           Born: 20 Aug 1832 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1889
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Robert Ferguson (      -      ) 1 2 5

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8 M Robert Sample ^{2 6}

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            AKA: Robert Semple 5
           Born: 14 Jul 1835 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1889
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Harriet Meyers (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1855 1

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9 M Silas Sample ^{2 6}

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            AKA: Silas Semple 5
           Born: 5 Jan 1839 - Hampton Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1915
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Eliza Jane Stewart (1846-1893) 1 16
           Marr: 1869 1

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General Notes: Husband - Robert A. Sample

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He was born in Ross township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He became a large land owner at "Girty's Run." He was a farmer, a man of strong character and influence.

He settled in 1816 on the farm where he died, near Wildwood station. He passed away aged ninety-three years, his helpmate having preceded him by one year, in her eighty-eighth year. They had lived together sixty years. For sixty years he was an elder in the Cross Roads Presbyterian Church, and during fifty-four years was never absent from session. He was an anti-masonic whig, afterward a republican. [HAC 1889 ii, 337]

He and his wife had nine children, five of whom were still living in 1889.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Simpson

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She was a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania. [HAC 1889 ii, 337]

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 412.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 796.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 252.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 337.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 242.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 337, 412.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 179, 412.

8 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 917.

9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 89.

10 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 168.

11 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 129.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 796, 820.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 820.

14 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 241.

15 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 243.

16 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 797.