SAMUEL L. STIERS, farmer, P. O. Nemaha City; born in 1831, in Guernsey County, Ohio. Located, April 10, 1855, in Brownsville, working as a carpenter on Richard Brown's saw-mill, the first in the county. Mr. Stiers has the honor of being the first man married in Nemaha County, as he was united, June 10, 1855, to Miss Nancy Swift, the Rev. Joel Wood performing the ceremony in a log building near the present site of Nickell's drug store. They reared a family of ten children--Sarah B., Mary J., Joseph, Leila, Samuel (deceased), John, Elmer, Maggie, Ida and Minnie, both deceased. The eldest was born August 19, 1856, it being one of the first births in Nemaha County. Mr. Stiers has followed the occupation of farmer and carpenter ever since his settlement, and is now a resident of Aspinwall Precinct.
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SAMUEL L. STIERS, farmer, P. O. Nemaha City; born in 1831, in Guernsey County, Ohio. Located, April 10, 1855, in Brownsville, working as a carpenter on Richard Brown's saw-mill, the first in the county. Mr. Stiers has the honor of being the first man married in Nemaha County, as he was united, June 10, 1855, to Miss Nancy Swift, the Rev. Joel Wood performing the ceremony in a log building near the present site of Nickell's drug store. They reared a family of ten children--Sarah B., Mary J., Joseph, Leila, Samuel (deceased), John, Elmer, Maggie, Ida and Minnie, both deceased. The eldest was born August 19, 1856, it being one of the first births in Nemaha County. Mr. Stiers has followed the occupation of farmer and carpenter ever since his settlement, and is now a resident of Aspinwall Precinct.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/nemaha/nemaha-p18.html#aspinwall
http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/nemaha/nemaha-p18.html#aspinwall
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