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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Hiram Samson: Birth: 1822 in Ontario, Canada.

  2. William Samson: Birth: 1823 in Ontario, Canada.

  3. Persis Samson: Birth: 1825 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 29 MAR 1906 in Noxville, Texas

  4. George Samson: Birth: 1826 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 1865 in Vermilion, Illinois, USA

  5. Willard NELSON Samson: Birth: 28 FEB 1829 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 9 MAY 1912 in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, USA


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. MaryAnn Samson: Birth: 6 OCT 1833 in London, Ontario, Canada. Death: 1912 in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, USA

  2. John Brazillia Samson: Birth: 19 JUN 1835 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 23 DEC 1863 in Alaska, USA

  3. Belinda Samson: Birth: 1836 in Ontario, Canada. Death: 8 MAR 1857 in Illinois, USA

  4. Matilda Samson: Birth: 1837 in Indiana, USA.

  5. James William Samson: Birth: 22 FEB 1840 in Marshall County, Indiana. Death: 23 MAY 1904 in Oconto, Custer, Nebraska, USA

  6. Nancy Ellen Samson: Birth: 5 MAR 1845 in Indiana, USA. Death: 24 SEP 1916 in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, USA

  7. Rachel Belle Samson: Birth: 14 FEB 1847. Death: 24 OCT 1920 in Champaign, Illinois, USA

  8. Nichol Samson: Birth: 14 APR 1854.


Notes
a. Note:   Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Sidney, Illinois.
  Mayflower Index #29564
  SOURCE: "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878
  SURNAMES: CANADY, CRANDEL, FITZGERALD, GROW, KNOX, MARR, NICHOL, PLATT, SAMSON, VAN BRUNT
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 WILLARD SAMSON (Deceased). Willard Samson, a former citizen of Sidney township, was born in Washington county, N. Y., November 4th, 1793. Previous to the war of 1812 his father moved with the family from New York to Canada, where during the war which followed Mr. Samson was drafted into the Canadian militia. He married Margaret MARR about 1816. She died in 1828, and he married as his second wife Margaret CRANDEL who was born within forty miles of London, in Canada West, September 20th, 1840.
  In 1838 Mr. Samson emigrated from Canada to Marshall county, Indiana, and settled in the timber, nine miles east of Plymouth. In 1852 he removed to the place where he lived till his death, two miles south of Sidney, in this county. At that time there was no house on the prairie between him and the Embarras, and only one to the west, at Lynn Grove. He had been Justice of the Peace in Indiana for several years. He was a member of the Methodist Church all his life, with the exception of three years before his death, during which time he was connected with the Christian (New Light) Church, of Philo township. He was originally a Democrat and afterwards a Republican. He was a man of strong constitution, and scarcely ever sick, and died September 10th, 1876, at the advanced age of eighty-two. He was a good citizen, and much respected. He had five children by his first marriage and nine by his second. His oldest son, Hiram, is in Minnesota; the next, William, in Missouri; Persis, wife of Noah KNOX, is living in Texas; George is deceased, and Nelson living in Sidney township. Of his children by his second wife, Mary Ann married John GROW, and is living at Danville; John B., is deceased; James W., is living on the homestead farm; Belinda married George NICHOL and died in Sidney; Matilda is the wife of McD. FITZGERALD of Mahomet; Ellen, the wife of John PLATT, of Champaign; Rachel married Samuel VAN BRUNT; David L., is deceased; and Emma is the wife of Jones CANADY, of Edgar county.
  Three of the sons served in the Union army during the war of the rebellion John B., enlisted in Co. I., Tenth Illinois Cavalry; he served in Missouri and Arkansas, and was accidentally killed at Little Rock, Ark., December 23d, 1863. David L., served four years as bugler in Co. I ,Tenth Illinois Cavalry, and died at home April 10th, 1875. James W. was in Colorado during the war, and enlisted in August, 1861, in the First Colorado Cavalry, served in Colorado, New Mexico, and other Territories, and was discharged October 8th, 1864.
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  Willard Samson (1793-1876)
  According to History of Champaign County Illinois (1878: 139), Willard Samson was born 4 November, 1793, in Washington County, New York. The Ontario Canadian Norfolk Militia with which Willard Samson served was originally formed from the Long Point area, Upper Canada, in 1796 and played a major role in the War of 1812. What information that is available shows Willard Samson to be on the Muster Roll of the Norfolk Militia from February to March 1815 (letter, National Archives of Canada, 5 May, 1999).
  Willard Samson (1793-1876) married Margaret Marr (? - 1829) in about 1816. Children of Willard and Margaret Samson are Hiram, William, Persis, George, and Nelson. Margaret (Marr) Samson died in 1828.
  Willard Samson married Margaret Crandall (1813 - 1893), born near London, Canada West, on 20 September, 1840. According to Margaret Crandall’s obituary (Sidney By-Way, 10 February 1893), she was born 5 October, 1813, and married Willard Samson in the Moravian Mission, Middlesex County, Ontario in 1833.
  Children of Willard and Margaret (Crandall) Samson are Matilda, Nancy Ellen, and James Watson. (1840 - 1904), Rachel B., David L., Emma, Mary Ann, John Barzillia, and Belinda.

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