Samuel B. McCandless

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Husband Samuel B. McCandless ¹

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         Father: Mark McCandless (1807-1888) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary M. Russell (1812-      ) 1 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel B. McCandless

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He served as a member of Company E, One Hun-dred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, but was taken prisoner at Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864, and after having been confined in the prison pen at Andersonville, Georgia, for several months, died at Charleston, South Carolina, October 29, 1864. [HBC 1883, 424]

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 424.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1173, 1411.

3 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 54.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1173.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 738.