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Samuel C. Hanna

1775 – 16 Sep 1837

Birth1775
Death16 Sep 1837
CemeteryWhitehouse Cemetery
Arnett , Washington County , Arkansas , USA
Added byLee - Ann on 05 Jul 2008
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14710453

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Samuel Hanna married Mary Cassidy in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on 15 November 1796. Their first known child, Joseph B., was born two years later, and they went on to have eight more children while living in Kentucky, the last being born in 1817: James, Cynthia Ann, Jesse Pearce, Samuel, Ebenezer, Margaret, Mary, and Jeremiah Cassiday. Samuel was enumerated in the 1810 and 1820 censuses for Floyd County, Kentucky. His proximity to Ebenezer Hanna in that county has given credence to the theory that Samuel and Ebenezer were the minor brothers named in the 1785 will of Samuel Hanna of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. (This Samuel and Ebenezer were not found in later Pennsylvania records.) Our Samuel was born between 1775-1778, according to the census, putting him at the right age to be a minor in that will. Furthermore, two of Samuel's children said in the 1880 census that their father was born in Pennsylvania, and an article in Goodspeed's History of Northwest Arkansas, written while those two children were still alive, said that he was born in Pennsylvania and of Irish descent. Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that Samuel was probably the son of Samuel Hanna and Mary Brady of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. By 1828, Samuel and many of his children and other Floyd County families spent a year or so in Vermillion County, Illinois, before traveling on to Washington County, Arkansas. Goodspeed says that Samuel was a Baptist and one of the pioneering ministers of the county. Samuel Hanna died in Washington County on 18 September 1837. Update Based on the gravestone uploaded by D. Westphal the death date should read 16 Sept 1837

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