Samuel Braxton Zollman was the son of Adam & Angelina (nee McCorkle) Zollman. Over Samual's lifetime, he had three wives: (1) Annie Bell Miller (2) Lucy Ann Baker (3) Sarah Jane Brown

Sam & Annie were the parents of:
1) Lawrence Dull Zollman (1884 & died as infant)

Sam & Lucy were the parents of:
2) Nellie Hazel Zollman (1893, died as infant)
3) Elizabeth Angelina Zollman (1894-1972 & md. Edward B. Henderson)
4) Virginia Baker Zollman (1897-1981 & md. Wiley J. Lyon)

Sam & Sarah were the parents of:
5) Wilbur Ballard Zollman (1903-1979 & md. Helen V. Carter)
6) Warren Robert {some records states Robert Warren} Zollman (1905-1970 & md. Ruby W. Weaver)
7) Franklin Lewis Zollman (1906-1993 & md. Janice I. Blackwell)
8) Edna Viloa Frances Zollman (1908-? & md. Robert O. McNiel)

From information of Virginia Zollman Historian & son of Samual Zollman, Mr. Wilbur Zollman's old book and transcribed from distant cousin Tom Kruse:

"Samuel Braxton Zolllman was born in a stone house about 5 miles southwest of Lexington.
His brother, Alexander, who was in the Confederate Army at the time, named him Samuel for his uncle Samuel McCorkle and Braxton for General Braxton Bragg.

"Brax", as he was always called, attended school at Elliott's Hill, Guy's Mill and Thorn Hill and went to high school in Lexington.

In 1882 he went to Roanoke and worked with engineers laying out streets, and later for contractors who graded the land where the Norfolk and Western Railroad shops were built.

After managing the Irvine Hotel in Lexington for a short time, he ran a store on Main Street there from 1888 to 1893.

In the summer of 1893 Samuel Braxton Zollman and his brother-in-law J. A. Heckelman, began a distilling business known as The Columbian Distilling Company on land Zollman had bought from his brother, William, in 1887. This was in Botetourt County near Dagger's Spring. They had a post office named Columbus established there. But this undertaking was abandoned in 1899 though Sam Zollman did not sell the land until after he returned to Roanoke in 1900.

Samuel Braxton Zollman moved to Roanoke, Virginia in 1900 and after his second wife died in 1901, he married the third time. Upon returning to Roanoke, he entered the employment of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company where he remained most of the remainder of his life."

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