Samuel Bly
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Samuel Thomas Bly (1873 - 1945)

Samuel Thomas Bly
Born in Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USAmap
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Husband of — married 11 Mar 1908 in Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montanamap
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Died at age 72 in Sweet Grass County Montana, USAmap
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Biography

Samuel Thomas Bly was born and reared in the North Mountain neighborhood, a few miles west of Strasburg, in Shenandoah County, Virginia.[1] When only about eighteen years old he left home and by the spring of 1895 was living and working on a farm near the community of Mullinsville, Kiowa County, in south-central Kansas.[2] Samuel cannot be found in the 1900 Federal census, but according to family accounts, he lived in Iowa, before moving to Montana in 1906. Samuel married Queen Curtis, daughter of Montana pioneers, at Manhattan, in Gallatin County in 1908, and they were living in the Cameron School District of Gallatin County when the 1910 census was taken.[3] Samuel was listed as a farmer, and he even had a hired man, living in the household. Their first child, Bluferd, born June 20, just missed the census by a few days. About 1914, Samuel and his growing family moved about 80 miles east to Sweet Water County, Montana, and settled about 20 miles east of Big Timber, between Greycliff and Reed Point. Samuel listed his occupation as "farmer" and gave his address as Greycliff, when he registered for the draft, that was established when the United States entered World War I, in 1917.[4] Samuel obtain a patent from the United States government for just a little over 304 acres near Reed Point in Gallatin County, June 9, 1919.[5] Samuel, Queen and their three children, Bluferd, Luther and Letha, were living there when the 1920 census was taken.[6] In 1925 they sold their ranch near Reed Point and moved back to Gallatin County, to take over operation of his aging father's-law and mother's-in-law, ranch near the railroad stop and post office called Central Park, about 15 miles north west of Bozeman, county seat of Gallatin County. Queens, father, William Curtis died in 1929, and Samuel, Queen and the children were listed in the 1930 census in the household of her, mother, Annabell, in the 1930 census.[7] After the death of Queen's mother, Annabell, in 1932, Samuel and Queen took up a ranch a few miles further west in the community of Belgrade, in Gallatin County and remained there. After Samuel's death his widow, Queen, lived in Bozeman. They are both buried at Meadow View Cemetery in Manhattan, Montana.

Sources

  • United States Census, 1880, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
  • Gallatin County, Montana Marriage Records 1904-1911, license #1796. Digital image at Ancestry.com.
  • United States Censuses, Montana, 1910, 1920, 1930.
  • Tombstone inscription, Mountain View Cemetery, Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montana, Find A Grave: Memorial #66941583.

References

  • Daniel W. Bly, A History of the Bly Family, Baltimore (1992), p. 78.

Footnotes

  1. United States Census, 1880, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Davis Dist. family #9,p. 236A.
  2. Kansas State Census, 1895. Kiowa County, Martin Township. p. 3. Digital image at familysearch.org.
  3. United States Census, 1910, Montana, Gallatin County, Cameron School District, family # 77, p. 6A.
  4. United States World War I Draft Cards, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Digital images at familysearch.org.
  5. Land Grants, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. Acquisition #684686, patent #010115, Bozeman District. Transcript and digital image at glorecords.blm.gov.
  6. United States Census, 1920, Montana, Sweet Grass County, School District #10, family #10, p. 7A.
  7. United States Census, 1930, Montana, Gallatin County, Central Park, Precinct #18, family #9, p. 1.(Samuel is erroneously listed as "Daniel Bly.")




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