Cummings, Samuel A.

CUMMINGS, CUNNINGHAM, CASE

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 4/22/2005 at 21:50:47

From “Portrait & Biographical Album”, Pub. 1890, page 597.

SAMUEL A. CUMMINGS, engaged in farming of Sec. 33, Buchanan Twp., has been a resident of Jefferson County for forty-seven years......He was born in Rockbridge County, Va., Dec. 16, 1830, his parents being William and Sarah (Cunningham) Cummings, who lived many years in the Old Dominion where the husband and father followed the carpenter’s trade. About 1833, he started for the West, making a location in Parke County, Ind., where he engaged in farming some ten years, and in 1843 loading his household effects into a wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen he left for the land beyond the Mississippi. After some twenty-three days of travel he arrived in Jefferson County in October, 1843. The family spent the winter in a little cabin and the following spring commenced preparations for making a home. Mr. Cummings planted a crop two miles north of Fairfield but had done little else toward developing a farm when he was called to his final rest, dying of the 4th of September, 1844, at the age of fifty-eight years. In the spring of 1846, his widow and children purchased a claim of 115 acres on Sec. 33, Buchanan Township. Mrs. Cummings ever remained true to his memory and died on the 5th of September 1884, having lived a widow for forty years. They were parents of eight children, four sons and four daughters, and with the exception of the eldest none have been taken away and the youngest is now 58 years of age. The parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. .....SAMUEL A. CUMMINGS married, 8 Sept. 1864, Miss Maria J. Case, in Fairfield. The lady was born in Ohio Jan. 7 1838, and during her girlhood accompanied her parents to Jefferson County. Four children were born of their union — William F., Fannie M., George H. and Charles C. The mother of this family died on the 1st of July 1879.....

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