Samuel Ludwig and Susanna Best

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Husband Samuel Ludwig ¹

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            AKA: Samuel Ludwick
           Born: 12 May 1798
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1856
         Buried: 

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         Father: Conrad Ludwick (      -      )
         Mother: Mary Leib (      -      )

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       Marriage: 5 Nov 1818 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1

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Wife Susanna Best ¹

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           Born: 4 Feb 1802 - Northampton Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Jul 1890 - near Monument, Logan Co, KS 1
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         Father: John Michael Best (1761-1843) 2
         Mother: Eva Catherine Schaeffer (1766-1862) 2 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Ludwig

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He was lost while taking a raft of square timber down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to market. The body was never recovered, and he was presumed drowned.

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General Notes: Wife - Susanna Best

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About 1870 she went with her daughter Caroline to Kansas where Caroline staked a homestead claim near Monument, Logan County.

1 Jude Ann Fischer, Wilhelm Best - Abridged Edition (Privately published, 1985), Pg 33.

2 Jude Ann Fischer, Wilhelm Best - Abridged Edition (Privately published, 1985), Pg 11.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 895.