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Note: N698 SAMUEL WILLEY, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Delaware; is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Weiser) Willey; his father was born in Berks Co., Penn., Nov. 10, 1798, and his mother Oct. 10, 1808 ; they were married Sept. 18, 1826 ; the father came on foot to Ohio by himself when 12 years of age, and settled in Fairfield Co., and worked by the month at very low wages to pay for a nag which his father had bought there, and which died ; this took one year of the young man's time. He lived to raise a family of ten children-Ephraim (married first time to Catharine, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lantz) Siegfried, from Pennsylvania; she was born May 31, 1831, and died Feb. 5, 1874, and had four children-Emma, who married Milton Warren, whose sketch appears elsewhere, Chauncy, Elenora, and Catherine V.; lie was again married. Aug. 16, 1874, to Catharine Hollanbaugh, a daughter of Forrest and Mary A. (Siegfried) Meeker ; her mother was born in Pennsylvania in 1827 ; her parents had three children-Rebecca, Catharine and Sarah A.; her father was born in 1834 ; her mother was married previously to John Troutman, by whom she had three children ; Mrs. Willey was born Nov. 3, 1848, and was married prior to her union with Mr. Willey to Henry Hollanbaugh, the fruit of which was one child-Abba J. and by her union with Mr. Willey she has two-Ida and Walter; she and her husband are members of the Lutheran Church) ; Harriet, the second in the list, and sister of the subject o our sketch, married Benjamin Siegfried ; Henry, married to Caroline Miller; David, married to Maria Ziegler; Mary, married to Prof. Loy, o the Capitol University at Columbus, also minister of the Lutheran Church, and editor of The Lutheran Standard; Elizabeth, married to Dr. Morrison, of Delaware; Eliza, married to Peter Maier, living in Evansville, Ind.; Samuel, our subject ; Clara, married to Mr. Staser, attorney at Evans ville, Ind.; and Frank, married to Minnie Mitchell now in Clearfield, Penn. Mr. Willey was born Feb. 19, 1844, in this county. He was married, March 25, 1869, to Flla, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Silverwood ; her father was born in Northumberland Co., Penn., Nov. 20, 1810, and emigrated to Wayne Co., Mich., in 1843, and from there to Delaware Co. in 1859 ; he was married, Nov. 8, 1832, to Elizabeth (her mother), a daughter of John and Martha (Grist) McPher son, who were of Scotch-Irish and German descent; she was one of nine children-William Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah K., Harriet ;1., Mary C. Martha, John and Archibald; Mrs. Willey' mother was born July 22, 1811 ; Mr. Silverwood's parents had nine children-William, Sarah, Martha, Elizabeth, Matilda, Harriet, Hiram Charlotte and Susannah ; his father was born in Pennsylvania about 1787, and his mother, whose maiden name was Snyder, was from the same county ; the grandfather of Mr. Silverwood was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1759, and emigrated to Philadelphia in 1769, and died in Sunbury, same State, in 1831 ; the grandfather of Mrs. Silverwood was a Revolutionary soldier, and was wounded on a man-of-war; he also held the office of Associate Judge for years in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs, Silverwood had the following children- John T., William F., Mary J.; Isaac N., who enlisted in Co. E, 66th O. V. I.; William, who was also in the war, as Lieutenant of Co. I, 4th M. V. I.; Horace, who was also in the war ; H. Clinton, deceased; Ella E. and Addison. This old couple have been members of the Methodist Church for over fifty-one years, he being class-leader and ethorter ; he is now a local minister in the same. Mrs. Willey was born March 28, 1848 ; her marriage with Mr. Willey has been blessed with two children-Arthur. born Nov. 1, 1870 ; and Eugene, Aug. 28, 1873. They now own 210 acres of well-improved land, valued at about $70 an acre, attained partly by inheritance, an by their own labors. He has always been, connected with the Democratic party ; in 1868, he was elected to the office of Township Trustee, which position he filled with honor, and, in 1878, the people again asked for his service, electing him Township Clerk, and re-electing him in 1879; he is a member of the Lutheran Church of Delaware.
W. W. WILLIAMS
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