Samuel B. McCrory
Samuel was a son of John McCrory and Lillie Akin McCrory; his siblings were Robert McCrory, William McCrory, Margaret McCrory Saxon, and Jane McCrory who died young.
A. G. Saxon 1940 'speech': "In 1828 Samuel McCrory, Andrew Moffett and John Scott walked to Cincinnati and there took a steamboat to Maysville, Kentucky. There they hired out on a keel boat belonging to Armstrong Grant and Company at fifty cents per day."
Samuel McCrory married Elsie Parrish on 9-11-1828 in Fayette Co., IN. Their children were Jane McCrory Wikoff, Phobia McCrory Irvin, Mary Caroline McCrory Gray, Susan McCrory Rea, Elizabeth 'Margaret' McCrory Caldwell, John Q. McCrory, and Sarah McCrory.
Washington Twp. Rush Co., IN 1860 Census (Samuel McCrary 57 yrs 1803 Ireland family #595).
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 2 "The death of Uncle Sammy McCrory on last Saturday evening, although daily expected for some time, was received with feeling of sorrow. He was one of the oldest settlers of this county, being near 75 years of age. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Fairview on Monday, the last sad rites being witnessed by a large concourse of sorrowing friends."
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 3 "Samuel McCrory, an old citizen of Fairview township, died Saturday. He was about eighty years of age."
Obituary received from McCrory descendant mjcm "Jacksonian, 24th Died, at his residence, near Falmouth, on Saturday, March 19th, 1881, Samuel McCrory, in the 78th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Cold Home, County Antrim, Ireland, and with his parents embarked in the ship St. Cuthbert, from Belfast for America in 1811. This was before the day of steam ships, when the emigrant passage to this country was much longer and filled with more dangers than now. After ... about on the ocean a month, ... sprung a leak and was compelled to put into Lisbon, from whence they again sailed for America in the ship Alex. Hamilton, and after a rough passage of four months arrived in Baltimore in February, 1812, having spent five long months on the ocean. During the passage he was seized by a British man of war and about to be taken away, but was allowed to remain at the earnest request of the mate. The family remained in Baltimore three months, and then moved to Cumberland county Penn., where they remained seven years, and then moved to Cincinnati, in 1819, making the passage in a small boat rowed by the deceased and an elder brother, Robert. The following fall the family moved to Little York the Stillwater, seven miles north of Dayton, from whence they moved to Williams Creek, Fayette county, in the winter of 1820-21. The first night of their arrival they camped in a log in the snow, and lived in that manner until a house could be erected. The deceased assisted in cutting out the state road between Connersville and Rushville, and is the last of that hardy band who made this one of the pioneer improvements of this county. He entered and settled on the farm he owned in Washington township in 1828, and turned the forest into one of the best farms in the county. He was married to Elsie Parrish on September 11th, 1828, and she with six children survive the hardy pioneer. His kind and jovial disposition drew toward him and added to the number of his friends. He was kind and hospitable to a fault and none ever left his door hungry. His welcome was quiet, but the shake of his hand convinced one of his sincerity. The last of earth of one who labored patiently and faithfully to make a great ... and was followed to the quiet churchyard at Fairview on the 21st inst., by a large concourse of relatives and friends, testifying their love and esteem for one who has been ... among them for so many years and laid to rest by the side of the friends who had shared the hardships of other years, and who had gone before to the happiness of that other home where the toils and sorrows of this life are unknown, and joy, and peace, and quiet are always.")
Fairview Cemetery Union Township Rush County, Indiana transcriptions booklet Fayette Co., IN library IN RM R929.5 IN G FA 1 "McCrory, Samuel B. born Oct. 20, 1803. Died Mar. 19, 1881."
Samuel was a son of John McCrory and Lillie Akin McCrory; his siblings were Robert McCrory, William McCrory, Margaret McCrory Saxon, and Jane McCrory who died young.
A. G. Saxon 1940 'speech': "In 1828 Samuel McCrory, Andrew Moffett and John Scott walked to Cincinnati and there took a steamboat to Maysville, Kentucky. There they hired out on a keel boat belonging to Armstrong Grant and Company at fifty cents per day."
Samuel McCrory married Elsie Parrish on 9-11-1828 in Fayette Co., IN. Their children were Jane McCrory Wikoff, Phobia McCrory Irvin, Mary Caroline McCrory Gray, Susan McCrory Rea, Elizabeth 'Margaret' McCrory Caldwell, John Q. McCrory, and Sarah McCrory.
Washington Twp. Rush Co., IN 1860 Census (Samuel McCrary 57 yrs 1803 Ireland family #595).
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 2 "The death of Uncle Sammy McCrory on last Saturday evening, although daily expected for some time, was received with feeling of sorrow. He was one of the oldest settlers of this county, being near 75 years of age. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Fairview on Monday, the last sad rites being witnessed by a large concourse of sorrowing friends."
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 3 "Samuel McCrory, an old citizen of Fairview township, died Saturday. He was about eighty years of age."
Obituary received from McCrory descendant mjcm "Jacksonian, 24th Died, at his residence, near Falmouth, on Saturday, March 19th, 1881, Samuel McCrory, in the 78th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Cold Home, County Antrim, Ireland, and with his parents embarked in the ship St. Cuthbert, from Belfast for America in 1811. This was before the day of steam ships, when the emigrant passage to this country was much longer and filled with more dangers than now. After ... about on the ocean a month, ... sprung a leak and was compelled to put into Lisbon, from whence they again sailed for America in the ship Alex. Hamilton, and after a rough passage of four months arrived in Baltimore in February, 1812, having spent five long months on the ocean. During the passage he was seized by a British man of war and about to be taken away, but was allowed to remain at the earnest request of the mate. The family remained in Baltimore three months, and then moved to Cumberland county Penn., where they remained seven years, and then moved to Cincinnati, in 1819, making the passage in a small boat rowed by the deceased and an elder brother, Robert. The following fall the family moved to Little York the Stillwater, seven miles north of Dayton, from whence they moved to Williams Creek, Fayette county, in the winter of 1820-21. The first night of their arrival they camped in a log in the snow, and lived in that manner until a house could be erected. The deceased assisted in cutting out the state road between Connersville and Rushville, and is the last of that hardy band who made this one of the pioneer improvements of this county. He entered and settled on the farm he owned in Washington township in 1828, and turned the forest into one of the best farms in the county. He was married to Elsie Parrish on September 11th, 1828, and she with six children survive the hardy pioneer. His kind and jovial disposition drew toward him and added to the number of his friends. He was kind and hospitable to a fault and none ever left his door hungry. His welcome was quiet, but the shake of his hand convinced one of his sincerity. The last of earth of one who labored patiently and faithfully to make a great ... and was followed to the quiet churchyard at Fairview on the 21st inst., by a large concourse of relatives and friends, testifying their love and esteem for one who has been ... among them for so many years and laid to rest by the side of the friends who had shared the hardships of other years, and who had gone before to the happiness of that other home where the toils and sorrows of this life are unknown, and joy, and peace, and quiet are always.")
Fairview Cemetery Union Township Rush County, Indiana transcriptions booklet Fayette Co., IN library IN RM R929.5 IN G FA 1 "McCrory, Samuel B. born Oct. 20, 1803. Died Mar. 19, 1881."
Samuel B. McCrory
Samuel was a son of John McCrory and Lillie Akin McCrory; his siblings were Robert McCrory, William McCrory, Margaret McCrory Saxon, and Jane McCrory who died young.
A. G. Saxon 1940 'speech': "In 1828 Samuel McCrory, Andrew Moffett and John Scott walked to Cincinnati and there took a steamboat to Maysville, Kentucky. There they hired out on a keel boat belonging to Armstrong Grant and Company at fifty cents per day."
Samuel McCrory married Elsie Parrish on 9-11-1828 in Fayette Co., IN. Their children were Jane McCrory Wikoff, Phobia McCrory Irvin, Mary Caroline McCrory Gray, Susan McCrory Rea, Elizabeth 'Margaret' McCrory Caldwell, John Q. McCrory, and Sarah McCrory.
Washington Twp. Rush Co., IN 1860 Census (Samuel McCrary 57 yrs 1803 Ireland family #595).
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 2 "The death of Uncle Sammy McCrory on last Saturday evening, although daily expected for some time, was received with feeling of sorrow. He was one of the oldest settlers of this county, being near 75 years of age. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Fairview on Monday, the last sad rites being witnessed by a large concourse of sorrowing friends."
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 3 "Samuel McCrory, an old citizen of Fairview township, died Saturday. He was about eighty years of age."
Obituary received from McCrory descendant mjcm "Jacksonian, 24th Died, at his residence, near Falmouth, on Saturday, March 19th, 1881, Samuel McCrory, in the 78th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Cold Home, County Antrim, Ireland, and with his parents embarked in the ship St. Cuthbert, from Belfast for America in 1811. This was before the day of steam ships, when the emigrant passage to this country was much longer and filled with more dangers than now. After ... about on the ocean a month, ... sprung a leak and was compelled to put into Lisbon, from whence they again sailed for America in the ship Alex. Hamilton, and after a rough passage of four months arrived in Baltimore in February, 1812, having spent five long months on the ocean. During the passage he was seized by a British man of war and about to be taken away, but was allowed to remain at the earnest request of the mate. The family remained in Baltimore three months, and then moved to Cumberland county Penn., where they remained seven years, and then moved to Cincinnati, in 1819, making the passage in a small boat rowed by the deceased and an elder brother, Robert. The following fall the family moved to Little York the Stillwater, seven miles north of Dayton, from whence they moved to Williams Creek, Fayette county, in the winter of 1820-21. The first night of their arrival they camped in a log in the snow, and lived in that manner until a house could be erected. The deceased assisted in cutting out the state road between Connersville and Rushville, and is the last of that hardy band who made this one of the pioneer improvements of this county. He entered and settled on the farm he owned in Washington township in 1828, and turned the forest into one of the best farms in the county. He was married to Elsie Parrish on September 11th, 1828, and she with six children survive the hardy pioneer. His kind and jovial disposition drew toward him and added to the number of his friends. He was kind and hospitable to a fault and none ever left his door hungry. His welcome was quiet, but the shake of his hand convinced one of his sincerity. The last of earth of one who labored patiently and faithfully to make a great ... and was followed to the quiet churchyard at Fairview on the 21st inst., by a large concourse of relatives and friends, testifying their love and esteem for one who has been ... among them for so many years and laid to rest by the side of the friends who had shared the hardships of other years, and who had gone before to the happiness of that other home where the toils and sorrows of this life are unknown, and joy, and peace, and quiet are always.")
Fairview Cemetery Union Township Rush County, Indiana transcriptions booklet Fayette Co., IN library IN RM R929.5 IN G FA 1 "McCrory, Samuel B. born Oct. 20, 1803. Died Mar. 19, 1881."
Samuel was a son of John McCrory and Lillie Akin McCrory; his siblings were Robert McCrory, William McCrory, Margaret McCrory Saxon, and Jane McCrory who died young.
A. G. Saxon 1940 'speech': "In 1828 Samuel McCrory, Andrew Moffett and John Scott walked to Cincinnati and there took a steamboat to Maysville, Kentucky. There they hired out on a keel boat belonging to Armstrong Grant and Company at fifty cents per day."
Samuel McCrory married Elsie Parrish on 9-11-1828 in Fayette Co., IN. Their children were Jane McCrory Wikoff, Phobia McCrory Irvin, Mary Caroline McCrory Gray, Susan McCrory Rea, Elizabeth 'Margaret' McCrory Caldwell, John Q. McCrory, and Sarah McCrory.
Washington Twp. Rush Co., IN 1860 Census (Samuel McCrary 57 yrs 1803 Ireland family #595).
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 2 "The death of Uncle Sammy McCrory on last Saturday evening, although daily expected for some time, was received with feeling of sorrow. He was one of the oldest settlers of this county, being near 75 years of age. His remains were interred in the cemetery at Fairview on Monday, the last sad rites being witnessed by a large concourse of sorrowing friends."
Connersville News Examiner 3-24-1881 p. 3 "Samuel McCrory, an old citizen of Fairview township, died Saturday. He was about eighty years of age."
Obituary received from McCrory descendant mjcm "Jacksonian, 24th Died, at his residence, near Falmouth, on Saturday, March 19th, 1881, Samuel McCrory, in the 78th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Cold Home, County Antrim, Ireland, and with his parents embarked in the ship St. Cuthbert, from Belfast for America in 1811. This was before the day of steam ships, when the emigrant passage to this country was much longer and filled with more dangers than now. After ... about on the ocean a month, ... sprung a leak and was compelled to put into Lisbon, from whence they again sailed for America in the ship Alex. Hamilton, and after a rough passage of four months arrived in Baltimore in February, 1812, having spent five long months on the ocean. During the passage he was seized by a British man of war and about to be taken away, but was allowed to remain at the earnest request of the mate. The family remained in Baltimore three months, and then moved to Cumberland county Penn., where they remained seven years, and then moved to Cincinnati, in 1819, making the passage in a small boat rowed by the deceased and an elder brother, Robert. The following fall the family moved to Little York the Stillwater, seven miles north of Dayton, from whence they moved to Williams Creek, Fayette county, in the winter of 1820-21. The first night of their arrival they camped in a log in the snow, and lived in that manner until a house could be erected. The deceased assisted in cutting out the state road between Connersville and Rushville, and is the last of that hardy band who made this one of the pioneer improvements of this county. He entered and settled on the farm he owned in Washington township in 1828, and turned the forest into one of the best farms in the county. He was married to Elsie Parrish on September 11th, 1828, and she with six children survive the hardy pioneer. His kind and jovial disposition drew toward him and added to the number of his friends. He was kind and hospitable to a fault and none ever left his door hungry. His welcome was quiet, but the shake of his hand convinced one of his sincerity. The last of earth of one who labored patiently and faithfully to make a great ... and was followed to the quiet churchyard at Fairview on the 21st inst., by a large concourse of relatives and friends, testifying their love and esteem for one who has been ... among them for so many years and laid to rest by the side of the friends who had shared the hardships of other years, and who had gone before to the happiness of that other home where the toils and sorrows of this life are unknown, and joy, and peace, and quiet are always.")
Fairview Cemetery Union Township Rush County, Indiana transcriptions booklet Fayette Co., IN library IN RM R929.5 IN G FA 1 "McCrory, Samuel B. born Oct. 20, 1803. Died Mar. 19, 1881."
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Shared tombstone "Samuel McCrory Born Oct. 20, 1803. Died Mar. 19, 1881"; reverse side "Elsie wife of Samuel McCrory born Sept 11, 1810 Died Jan 1899".
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