Samuel Bly was the youngest child of John and Barbara and was only a small boy when his family moved from the Cedar Creek neighborhood of Frederick County back to the Mulberry neighborhood of Shenandoah County.[1]
Samuel married Flora Rosenberger, daughter of Rudolph and Barbara Rosenberger in 1836 and lived on a tract of land he purchased from her brother Asa, along the Back Road, near present-day St. Stephens Church. [2]
Samuel Bly was a carpenter and was reputed to be the last man in the county who could still hew a log properly. He was building a house for Lewis Chrisman in Edinburg, Virginia, at the time of his death.[3] The heirs of Samuel Bly are named in a chancery case regarding the settlement of his estate.[4]
Sources
Birth and death dates from Samuel Bly's Family Bible, in possession of Annalea Pyne Dawson, Berkeley Springs, WV (now deceased) Typed copy made in 1962, in possession of Daniel W. Bly, Grottoes, VA).
Public records, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
United States Census, 1850, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Dist. 58, p. 42A, family #588.
United States Census, 1860, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Strasburg, p. 761, family #2077.
United States Census, 1870, Virginia, Shenandoah County, Davis Dist. p. 656A, family #49.
Footnotes
↑ John Bly's Revolutionary War pension application #S37780, National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives, Washington, DC.
↑ Shenandoah County Deed Books, "RR", p. 464 and "WW, pp. 41-2. and United States Census 1850, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Family #588, p. 42.
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Shenandoah County Chancery Causes: Adm of Samuel Bly vs. Lewis Chrisman and George J. Zimmerman, 1880-052, Local Government Records Collection,
Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
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George Funkhouser, vs. Heirs of David Bly ETC, 1882-036, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. (Indexed as Heirs of David Bly, Etc. but should read "David Bly ETC, heirs of Samuel Bly."
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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.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Daniel Bly :
Y-Chromosome Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269
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