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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry County Bio-John Sample
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:09:30 EST

>From Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Acme Publishing,
Chicago, 1888.

Page 234:

JOHN SAMPLE, deceased, a pioneer of Henry County, of 1839, and one of her
most highly respected citizens, fell a victim to cholera June 5,1851, his wife
also dying two days later. Samuel D. Woodworth, a son-in-law of John Sample, and
his two sons, alldied within seven days of the appearance of the disease
among them. Mr. Sample was born in Washington County,Pa., with the birth of the
Republic in 1776, March 23, a few years prior to theissuing of the Declaration
of Independence, and his childhood and youth were spent amid the stirring
scenes of the great Revolution, from which has sprung the greatest Republic known
in the history of the world. His father was an English emigrant, his mother a
native of Germany, both worthy people. John Sample was apprenticed to a
millwright, and served his time at that useful trade. In pursuit of employment he
afterward wended his way to Butler County, Ohio, about the close of the last
century, where he was married, Jan. 20, 1803, to Miss Ann Taylor, daughter of
Henry Taylor. Mrs. Sample was born in Cincinnati April 10, 1783. Her father
was a pioneer of Cincinnati, and a brother of hers was the first white male
child born in that city. Mr. Sample removed to Randolph County, Ind., in 1818,
where he engaged in building mills. In the spring of 1839 he set out with his
family for the then “far west” of Iowa. Their mode of conveyance was by
one-horse team and two ox-teams, with the usual covered emigrant wagons. He
located land in Tippecanoe Township, the same land now forming a part of the farm of
his son-in-law, William Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Sample were blessed with
anumerous family, consisting of eleven children, seven of whom grew tomaturity. Mary
was born Jan. 1, 1804,and was the wife of S.D. Woodworth; she died in
January, 1845. Jane H. was born May 14, 1812; she married Arthur Bull, Nov. 12,
1829, and died Sept. 26, 1831. William was born June 14, 1814; he married Amanda
T. Goddard, and died of cholera June 9, 1851. Robert was born Oct. 13, 1816,
and died Aug. 12, 1839; John was born Sept. 26, 1818,and died in September,
1842; Eliza A. was born Feb. 25, 1821.

Mr. Sample was a consistent member of the PresbyterianChurch, and his wife
was an earnest Methodist. He was a Whig in politics and his sons walked
politically in his footsteps. While living in Randolph County, Ind., he was chosen
one of the three judges who constituted the courtsof that county, and served
with honor and ability in that capacity. He was a man of positive views and of
great force of character, upright and honorable in all his intercourse with his
fellowmen, and he enjoyed in a marked degree the respect and esteem of all
who knew him. He was a master mechanic and delighted in the exercise of his
skill. His course westward was marked by mills of his erecting, and up to the
time of his sudden death he was desirous of building another mill. His daughter,
Eliza A., the wife of Mr.William Davis, is the only surviving member of that
once large family.

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Pat Ryan White
Camarillo, CA

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