Tuesday morning Samuel Wade died at his home on Fourth street after a gradual decline extending over many years. He was born in Miami county, Ohio, February 28, 1829, making him seventy-five years of age at the time of his death. While he was yet an infant his parents moved to southwestern Indiana, where his father soon afterward died. Four years later his mother died, leaving Samuel alone in the world. He was bound out and at seventeen years of age was released by a defect in the bonds under which he was held. At that age he entered the academy at Milton, Wisconsin, and by the most prudent economy and diligent application completed his course of study. On the 18th of April, 1850, he married Miss Margaret Merrington, at Madison, Wisconsin. Two years later he removed to West Union, Iowa, where he engaged with unusual success in business as an architect and builder. In 1859 he moved to Esterville, Emmet county, Iowa, where he was elected to the office of county clerk. He enlisted in the Federal cause at the outbreak of the Civil war, and was sent with his troop to guard the frontier against the hostile Sioux. He was commissioned first lieutenant of volunteers in 1865 and assigned to company A 2nd U. S. V. composed of enlisted prisoners of war, from the prisons at Rock Island, Illinois. His company was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. where he served till the end of the war. After being mustered out he resumed his former business, but on account of disease contracted in the service he was obliged to give up contracting, and devote his entire time to architecture and superintending. He superintended the erection of several noted buildings in Missouri, Kansas and Texas. His health still remaining poor, he sought relief in the mountains of Colorado, where he arrived in 1874. The next year he became interested in mining in San Juan county and met with a fair degree of success. In 1880 he closed out his mining interests and removed to the town of Pitkin, then in the county of Gunnison, where in concert with Governor Pitkin he succeeded in having a daily mail and post office established. He then removed to Delta county, and selected a site on the north fork of the Gunnison river at what is now known as Paonia. There he was said to have the most beautiful and best stocked fruit ranch in the state of Colorado. He received a medal at the World's Columbian Exposition for the best and finest display of apples, and on October 12, 1889, he received first prizes at Colorado State Fair for the best and largest variety of apples and for the best grapes. In 1894 Mr. Wade sold his fruit ranch and moved to Blaine, having during his stay in Colorado represented the counties of Gunnison, Pitkin, Montrose, Delta and Mesa in the lower branch of the legislature.

Mr. Wade's first wife died in Paonia, Col. He was married to Mrs. A. M. Blue in Paonia, October 12, 1892. During his stay in this city Mr. Was has held and improved considerable real estate, some of which he sold and the rest was retained by him. His residence on Fourth street is one of the handsomest homes in the city. Mr. Wade was a Mason of high standing. He was a true friend and firm believer in Blaine even during the hard times and has linked his name inseparable with our early history. He has served his God faithfully. He was a true patriot, a faithful soldier, and enterprising and progressive citizen and a true friend and devoted husband. The example of the life but now gone out, we may all well look. He leaves mourning him a bereaved wife. The remains were taken to Paonia, Col. for interment.
(From The Blaine Journal, March 18, 1904)


from a FAG visitor:
I saw a link to Samuel Wade's burial on the Sioux City Cavalry Regiment website.
It listed that Samuel Wade died in Blaine, WA in 1904 and there was a link to the burial.

Samuel Wade is my great-great-grandfather. I have always known his burial to
have occured in Cedar Hill cemetary in Paonia, Delta County, Colorado. I visited his gravesite several years ago. His body was shipped back to Paonia,
where his first wife was buried, upon his death.