Samuel
Wilson
Armistead
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Alice Curle (Armistead) Benson, Willie Armistead, Elizabeth (Armistead) Benson, Robert Jefferson Armistead and Moss William Armistead Sr.
Husband of
Jane McDonald (Lindsay) Armistead
— married
22 Sep 1885 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
Father of
Rebecca Curle Armistead, Samuel Armistead Jr, Ambrose Harvey Lindsay Armistead and Moses William Armistead
Died
at age 33
in San Francisco, California, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Mar 2016
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Biography
Samuel was born in 1861 in Portsmouth, Virginia. He married Jane Lindsey in 1885 and together they had at least 4 children. He died in 1895 from an accident on the USS Olympia after a hawser broke.
Sources
- "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR4Q-H4W : 29 January 2020), Saml. Wilson Armistead, 1885.
- "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFGY-189 : household of Moss W Armistead, Virginia, United States; citing p. 49, family 428, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,166.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38100163/samuel-wilson-armistead: accessed 27 March 2023), memorial page for Samuel Wilson Armistead (26 Sep 1861–27 Jan 1895), Find A Grave: Memorial #38100163, citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Portsmouth City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Steve Poole (contributor 46833083).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel:
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~3.12%
Brandon (Ring) Comer
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member MBrandonRC3
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~1.56%
Alexander Perez :
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