Henry H. Sampsell and Unknown

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Husband Henry H. Sampsell ¹

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           Born: 2 Jul 1832 - ? Schuylkill Co, PA 1
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           Died: 2 Jun 1902 - Vandergrift, Armstrong Co, PA
         Buried:  - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pinoak, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Peter Sampsell (      -      ) 1
         Mother: [Unk] Miller (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Anna Disher (1840-1890) 1

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Wife Unknown

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General Notes: Husband - Henry H. Sampsell

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He moved to Clarion County, PA, when sixteen years old, locating near Shippensville, and followed the customary employments of the region at that time, running rafts on the Clarion River to Pittsburgh, carrying lumber and iron, working at the old iron furnaces, burning charcoal, and doing farm labor. When the early oil excitement prevailed at Oil City and in the Oil Creek territory he drove team in that section, hauling oil along the creek for a number of years. He had a farm in Rockland Township, Venango County, and was a huckster for a number of years, selling his produce in Oil City; for a few years he conducted a meat market on State Street, in the city, dealing in meats, butter, eggs, chickens, etc., and he also had a billiard room on State Street for a few years, about where the south side post office was later located. His wife dying, he bought a farm near Shippensville and moved there, following general farming on that tract, which was large and well improved. His death occurred while he was on a visit to a daughter at Vandergrift, PA, and he is buried with his wife in Pinoak (Mount Pleasant) cemetery in Cranberry Township, Venango County. He was a Republican, a member of the Evangelical Church, and affiliated with Petrolia Lodge, No. 589, I. O. O. F., of Oil City. [HVC 1919, 890]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 890.