Silas Sample and Eliza Jane Stewart

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Husband Silas Sample ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Silas Semple 3
           Born: 5 Jan 1839 - Hampton Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2 4
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         Father: Robert A. Sample (1793-1886) 2 4 5
         Mother: Mary Simpson (1799-1885) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 1869 4

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Wife Eliza Jane Stewart ^{4 6}

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            AKA: Eliza J. Steward 3
           Born: 26 Feb 1846 6
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           Died: 1893 6
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         Father: Andrew C. Stewart (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary Ann Steen (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M David A. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 28 Mar 1870 6
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2 M Robert F. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 25 Aug 1871 6
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         Spouse: Gertrude Seibert (      -      ) 6

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3 F Mary E. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 10 Apr 1874 6
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         Spouse: Abelard H. Logan (      -      ) 6

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4 F Susanna S. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 28 May 1878 6
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         Spouse: John Forsythe (      -      ) 6

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5 M William G. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 27 May 1882 6
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         Spouse: Mary E. Viock (      -      ) 6

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6 F Harriet G. Sample ^{4 6}

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           Born: 31 Aug 1885 6
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         Spouse: Charles Hardt (      -      ) 6

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7 M Charles L. Sample ⁶

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           Born: 20 Sep 1887 6
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General Notes: Husband - Silas Sample

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He always resided on the family homestead. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. D, 139th P. V., and was wounded in May, 1863, at the second battle of Fredericksburg, after which he was honorably discharged.
He held the office of auditor of the township, and was a member of Col. Clarke Post, No. 162, G. A. R., of Allegheny. He and his wife were members of Cross Roads Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder. [HAC 1889 ii, 412]

He was born on the farm he later owned and in the house he later occupied in Hampton township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He attended public schools of the township, and early began working on the farm that consisted of one hundred acres of fertile land, where his life was spent.
On August 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged August 20, 1864. He fought at Antietam and other battles of the Army of the Potomac, escaping unhurt until May 3, 1863, when at the battle of Frederick his right knee was pierced by a rifle ball. He remained in the hospital until the following June 13, when he received a thirty-day furlough to come home, and at expiration reported to hospital in Pittsburgh, remained to January, 1864, returned to Washington, D. C., and served in Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, and on August 20, 1864, was honorably discharged from the army. After his return he resumed farming and so continued until advancing years warned him that his days of active work had passed. He was for many years an elder of Cross Roads Presbyterian Church, and was a member of Colonel Clark's Post, No. 162, Grand Army of Republic, of Allegheny. [GPHWP, 796]

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 337, 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 242.

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

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 252.

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