Brown, Samuel M.

BROWN, MEEK, MERRYMAN, MCBURNEY

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

Page 753

BORN, SAMUEL M.--Section 10, P.O. Victor. His grandfather raised one daughter and twenty-four sons. His father was born December 18, 1806, in Ireland; came to America with his father when ten years old; married Mary Meek, who was born in Virginia, January 7, 1808, and settled in Guernsey county, Ohio, where they farmed and raised a family of eight children. Samuel was born February 26, 1839, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was raised and educated. He immigrated to this county in the spring of 1868, and settled upon his present place. He married November 21, 1861, Harriet V., daughter of James and Margaret Merryman, of Guernsey county, Ohio; she was born January 20, 1841. She bore him Arminda J. (born December 27, 1862) and died August 29, 1867. He remarried March 7, 1872, choosing Sarah Jane, daughter of James and Hannah McBurney, a lady of Irish extraction, for his second wife. She was born June 4, 1843, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where she received her primary education, finishing in Muskingum. Prior to her marriage she taught school for five years. The fruits of their union are: James Orvis (born July 18, 1874), Willis Everett (born January 24, 1877) and Urna McBurney (born March 16, 1879). Mr. Brown owns 160 acres of good farming land, in good cultivation, well stocked and unembarrassed.