Samuel Sinnett

SINNETT, RICHIE, WALTON, ABBOTT, HIGLEY, DONALDSON, KNOX, GEORGE

Posted By: John Rogers (email)
Date: 11/22/2008 at 23:28:50

from MUSCATINE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1899

"S. SINNETT IS DEAD"
"Another Muscatine Pioneer - Passes Away"
"History of His Active Life"
"The Story of Irish Energy and Learning - A Long Life Ended - His Genial Character - Funeral on Next Friday Afternoon"

(From Wednesday's Daily)

"Samuel Sinnett, an old settler of Muscatine county, lies dead in his late home to-day. The final summons came at 2:30 this morning.

"This is the third old settler removed by death within two weeks..... W.S. Richie, J.P. Walton and S. Sinnett.....

"Mr. Sinnett had been ailing for the past five or six weeks..... The doctor defines the disease.... as arteriosclerosis and debility......

"Samuel Sinnett was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, on the 17th of March, 1817, and is the second son of John T. Sinnett and Mary Susan nee Abbott. His father was for many years a silk manufacturer in the Irish capital and was descended from an old Huguenot family.........

"Mr. Sinnett received a first-class English and classical education in the city of his nativity...... He left Ireland in 1835, in company with his only brother, John T. Sinnett, an artist, late of Middleton, NY.

"On arriving in the United States he settled down as a pioneer farmer in Park county, Ind., where he remained for some five years, and in 1840 removed to Muscatine county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm near this city, on which he has since resided. He has been twice married. In September, 1840, to Miss Susan L. Higley, of New York. She died on the 14th of July, 1844, leaving one child, the present Mrs. Mary S. Donaldson, of Webster City, Iowa. On the 31st of October, 1847, he married Miss Sarah A. Knox, who preceded him in death, Nov. 13, 1897.

"The children living are: Mrs. Mary S. Donaldson, of Webster City, Iowa; Jennie S., of this city; Mrs. Georgia George of Chicago; Isabella, Samuel T., and Charles E. of Muscatine. Two other children had been born to him, Wm. A., who died in infancy, and the late Dr. Harry Sinnett, of New York City, who died in March, 1894, whose wife, Mrs. Janie H. Sinnett, now lives in Louisville, Ky. He also left six grandchildren, Oscar and Sadie Donaldson, of Webster City, Iowa; Francis and Helen, children of Chas. E. Sinnett, and Eleanor and John Harris, children of Dr. Harry Sinnett.

"A Great Conversationalist"

"Mr. Sinnett was an instructive and entertaining conversationalist and speaker.............

"The funeral will be held from the family residence Friday Afternoon, a 2 o'clock"