Samuel Newton Van Voorhis and Sarah Myers

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Husband Samuel Newton Van Voorhis ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Samuel Newton Van Voorhees 3
           Born: 12 Jul 1774 - Long Island, NY 4
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           Died: 24 Feb 1857 - near Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH 5
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         Father: Daniel Van Voorhees (1738-1819) 3
         Mother: Sarah Van Voorhees (      -1777) 3

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       Marriage: 22 Jun 1800 4

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Wife Sarah Myers ⁴

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           Died: 20 Sep 1848 - near Bucyrus, Crawford Co, OH 5
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Children

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1 M Daniel Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 13 Apr 1801 - Dutchess Co, NY 4
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2 M William R. Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 25 May 1803 - Dutchess Co, NY 4
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           Died: 4 Aug 1893 - Crawford Co, OH
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         Spouse: Hannah Jones (      -      )

         Spouse: Almeda Johnson (1818-1910)

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3 M Charles Edward Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 11 Oct 1809 - Dutchess Co, NY 4
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         Spouse: Susan Jones (1813-1870) 5
           Marr: 9 Jul 1832 - Crawford Co, OH 5

         Spouse: Ellen Fergeson (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 27 Apr 1871 5

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4 F Susan R. Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 7 Jan 1812 - Washington Co, PA 4
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5 F Sarah Ann Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: May 1816 - Washington Co, PA 4
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6 M Isaac Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 1 Mar 1821 - Crawford Co, OH 4
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7 F Harriett Van Voorhis ⁴

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           Born: 20 Feb 1826 - Crawford Co, OH 4
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Newton Van Voorhis

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Somewhere between the years 1809 and 1812, he left New York state with his family to seek a new home in western Pennsylvania. They traveled in a two-horse wagon, rigged with yankee harness and other accoutrements, after the style of that day. They came direct to his father's location, and in a short time were domiciled in an old log house that stood near the entrance to VanVoorhis cemetery. For a while he taught school in what was then known as Hair's school house. After a short time he moved into a log house on the Joel Butler farm, near where the Black Diamond Railroad Station was later located, above Monongahela City. Sometime prior to 1820 he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, and located near where now stands the city of Bucyrus, which was then considered on the frontier of settlement. They moved in a two-horse wagon drawn by a stout yoke of oxen and one horse in the lead; they took with them one cow and calf. Here he and his wife spent the remnant of their days.

He was for a long time a successful merchant of New York City. About the beginning of the 1800s he came to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and lived for a short time in a cabin near where the Black Diamond Coal Works were later situated, and afterwards removed to Bucyrus, Ohio, where he died at an advanced age.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 695.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1058.

3 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 187.

4 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 188.

5 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 189.