Samuel Sill

SILL, MCNETT, PIERCE

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/22/2004 at 21:04:35

Rev. Samuel Sill was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, on the 30th day of May, 1823, and is a son of Deodatus and Margaret (McNett) Sill. His father was a native of Connecticut, and his mother of New York. His early educational advantages were the common school, but upon reaching the age of twenty-one, he entered a seminary, in Allegany county, New York, where he studied three years.
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At the age of thirty he began work in his native county, as a minister of the gospel; and after doing good work there for three years, he came west, and spent three years in Walworth county, Wisconsin, where the fields were large and the laborers few. He arrived in Shell Rock, Butler county, Iowa, in 1863, and immediately began the organization of the Baptist Church; and the neat church edifice of that village, is largely due to his untiring efforts. After the society was organized, he was their pastor for six years. Since that time he has been pastor of numerous churches. He spent two years at Strawberry Point; three years at Janesville; two years at Plainfield; two years near Marble Rock, and three years near Clarksville. On account of failing health he has been compelled to give up the ministry, and therefore, in 1873, and since that time, he has attended to the many duties of a farmer.
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He was married in 1850, to Miss Mary Pierce, who is a native of Madison county, New York. Three children have been born to them – Eddy Eugene, who is now practicing medicine at Shell Rock; Susan E., and William Sanford. Mr. Sill had done much missionary work, holding services in almost every school house in the county.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 723