Samuel Jones Huston (1800 - 1893)

Born 29 Sep 1800 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Leonard) Huston — married 28 May 1823 in Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio

Descendants

Died 27 Feb 1893 at age 92 in Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio

Biography

Samuel Jones Huston lived in Appalachia. See Appalachia Project.

Name

Name: Samuel Jones Huston^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Birth

Date: 29 SEP 1800

Place: Winchester, Frederick, Virginia^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Census

Date: 1820

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[16]

Occupation:Farmer

Date: 1830

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[17]

Date: 1840

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[18]

Occupation:Ship Carpenter

Date: 1850

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[19]

Date: 1880

Place: Clay, Scioto, Ohio^[20]

Occupation:Ship Carpenter

Date: 1860

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[21]

Occupation:Retired

Date: 1870

Place: Clay, Scioto, Ohio^[22]

Occupation

River Steamboat Captain and Builder

Date: BET 1840 AND 1870

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[23][24]

Occupation: State Legislature

Date: 1854^[25][26]

Event

Type: Moved

Date: JAN 1802

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[27][28]

Type: Obituary

Date: 01 MAR 1893

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio

Type: Will Filed

Date: 11 MAR 1893

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[29]

Type: Will Probated

Date: 20 MAR 1893

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[30]

Marriage

Husband: Samuel Jones Huston

Wife: Elizabeth Leonard

Child: William S. Huston

Child: Elizabeth Leonard Huston

Child: Maria Louise Huston

Child: Margaret R. Huston

Child: Sarah L. Huston

Child: Cecilia A. Huston

Child: Hempstead Huston

Child: Hellen M. Huston

Child: Thomas J. Huston

Child: James L. O. Huston

Child: Franklin Huston

Child: Leora Irene Huston

Child: Samuel Jay Huston

Child: Barker L. Huston

Date: 28 MAY 1823

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^{[31][32][33][34][35][36]}

Husband: William Huston

Wife: Susannah Boyd

Child: Mary Huston

Child: Julia Huston

Child: John Huston

Child: Samuel Jones Huston

Child: Hiram Huston

Child: Elizabeth Huston

Child: Sidney Anne Huston

Child: James Marcus Huston

Child: Mark Huston

Date: 24 AUG 1791

Place: Cecil, Maryland^[37][38]

Death

Date: 27 FEB 1893

Place: Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^{[39][40][41][42]}

Burial

Place: Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio^[43]

Sources

1. ↑ Source:#S39 24 May 1873, Page 2
2. ↑ Source:#S68 Smith, Addy Robert Worcester, Self Written Memoir (Self-Published, 1919).
3. ↑ Source:#S88Volume 71, Page 152
4. ↑ Source:#S805 Record for Samuel J Huston
5. ↑ Source:#S696 Year:1850; Census Place:Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio; Roll:M432_727; Page:204A; Record for B D Huston
6. ↑ Source:#S1021 Record for Samuel J Huston
7. ↑ Source:#S689 Year:1880; Census Place:Clay, Scioto, Ohio; Roll:1064; Family History Film:1255064; Page:52A; Enumeration District:162; Image:0244. Record for Samuel Huston
8. ↑ Source:#S695 Year:1860; Census Place:Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio; Roll:; Page:429; Image:310.Record for Saml J Huston
9. ↑ Source:#S692
10. ↑ Source:#S68
11. ↑ Source:#S805
12. ↑ Source:#S696
13. ↑ Source:#S1021
14. ↑ Source:#S689
15. ↑ Source:#S695
16. ↑ Source:#S716 Year:1820; Census Place:, Scioto, Ohio; Roll:M33_95; Record for William Huston
17. ↑ Source:#S717
18. ↑ Source:#S697
19. ↑ Source:#S696 Year:1850; Census Place: Portsmouth
20. ↑ Source:#S689
21. ↑ Source:#S695
22. ↑ Source:#S692
23. ↑ Source:#S39 31 Jan 1890
24. ↑ Source:#S39 14 Aug 1886, p.2, col.4
25. ↑ Source:#S59 1 Mar 1893, Page 1
26. ↑ Source:#S68
27. ↑ Source:#S59 1 Mar 1893, Page 1
28. ↑ Source:#S39 24 May 1873, Page 2
29. ↑ Source:#S39 March 11, 1893. p. 1.
30. ↑ Source:#S1060 18 Mar 1895. p. 4.
31. ↑ Source:#S59 1 Mar 1893, Page 1
32. ↑ Source:#S68
33. ↑ Source:#S39 18 Jan 1873,Page 3; 24 May 1873, Page 2
34. ↑ Source:#S43 p. 64
35. ↑ Source:#S805 Record for Samuel J Huston
36. ↑ Source:#S1078
37. ↑ Source:#S60 Cecil County, Maryland Marriages, 1777-1840, Page 72.
38. ↑ Source:#S938 Record for Susannah Boyd
39. ↑ Source:#S38 Page 80
40. ↑ Source:#S59 1 Mar 1893, Page 1
41. ↑ Source:#S805 Record for Samuel J Huston
42. ↑ Source:#S1021 Record for Samuel J Huston
43. ↑ Source:#S38 Page 80

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• Source:S60Cecil County, Maryland Marriages, 1777-1840
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• Source:S938 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Title: Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850 Publication: Name:Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location:Provo, UT, USA; Date:2004

Notes

Samuel J. Huston, Sr. was born Sept. 29, 1800, in Winchester, Virginia, a son of William and Susan or Susannah (Boyd) Huston. His parents removed to Ohio in 1802 and he was reared and educated in Portsmouth. In 1823, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Leonard, of Portsmouth. Mr. Leonard is a descendant of Sampson Leonard and Margaret Fiennes from the House of Hurst-Monceux of Sussex, England. Their family consisted of fourteen children, of whom eight still survive:Elizabeth, Cecelia, Sarah, Helen, Margaret, Maria, Irene, and Samuel J. Soon after his marriage he moved to Brush Creek, where he assisted in building steamboats, after which he built one of the best boats on the Ohio River. He has ten acres of valuable land on which he has a neat residence, situated just outside the corporate limits of Portsmouth. He is now in his eighty-third year, and is an active old gentleman. His father was a native of Virginia, of Irish descent. He came to the Scioto Valley in 1802 and built the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. He was a tailor by trade, but did not work much at that, but followed keel-boating a number of years. Our subject's mother was born near Brandywine, Maryland and died in 1854.

History of Scioto County [Ohio]...Pioneer Sketches, 1883

Old Time Steamboatmen

Questions asked of a Mr. Jim Hannabe for the article:

Didn’t S. J. Huston - the old gentleman - used to be a river man?

“Yes; he was himself a practical ship-carpenter, and built several boats and ran them South. He built the Eureka about 1843. He built the hull at the foot of court Street and took it to Cincinnati, where the boat was finished. He took her round to Mobile and ran her on the Alabama River. That country was just then waking up to the importance of steamboating, and most of their boats came from the Ohio River. Adam Leonard - who I believe was a relative of Captain Huston - was clerk.

His son William was clerk on some of his boats, wasn’t he?

"Yes; on the Eighth of January. She was built here about 1848, and was named by Mr. Huston in honor of “Old Hickory”. She was a side-wheeler. Later he built the Irene. Some of his boats burned, and I believe came near breaking him up."

The Portsmouth Times, August 14, 1886.

Samuel J. Huston

In the death of the venerable Samuel J. Huston Scioto county loses her oldest pioneer citizen. He was born with the century, came here in his infancy, and for ninety years has been a resident of Portsmouth. His was an active life until he had reached the allotted span of life, while for a quarter of a century he has enjoyed the calm serenity of a happy and contented old age.

The oldest landmark is gone. He is older than our city, and has seen every year of its growth.

Mr. Huston was a man of honest purposes and firm convictions. He was an old Jackson Democrat in deed and in truth. He voted for Andrew Jackson in 1824 and also in 1828 and 1832, and bravely he stood by the party and the principles of "Old Hickory" amid all vicissitudes until the close. Last November he was driven to the polls in Clay township. He remarked that it was probably his last vote - certainly the last presidential vote - and feeble though he was, he was anxious to cast his ballot for Grover Cleveland. He evinced that firmness of which heroes are made, and battled for his principles to the last. The Times - in no partisan spirit - would place a bright chaplet upon the grave of the Grand Old Democrat.

- The Portsmouth Times. 4 Mar 1893.

Samuel Jones Huston

Was born in Winchester, Virginia, on the 29th of September, 1800. His father, William Huston, was a native of the Old Dominion and his mother, whose maiden name was Susanna Boyd - was born in Maryland. In January, 1802, his parents emi grated to this place, coming down the river in what was called a Kentucky flat-boat. The ice MRS running so thick in the river that they were compelled at night to cut trees down on the bank, falling them in the river, and then work their boats between the trees and shore to protect it from ice. Fires were made of logs on shore to keep them warm, by which they spent the nights. Other relatives of Mr. Huston's parents landed here but continued their journey from this place to Walnut Plains, in the central part of the State. The parents of Mr. Huston when they came to this town, moved into a log cabin on a spot now west of Scioto street, about half way between the Scioto bridge and Front street. Here he lived until his father built a dwelling house, which was about the fourth in the town. The Bacom house on the lot near where the rolling mill store now stands, or the Morgan house, was the first erected in the place. The family and children consisted of Mary, widow of Uriah White, dead; Julia, who married a Mr. Anderson of Illinois, dead; Mark died in 1829. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at Erie when peace was proclaimed. The army came down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to this place on flat boats and keel boats, and was marched to Chillicothe where it was discharged. Sidney, relict of the late Samuel Williams; Hiram, dead; John living in Indiana, whither he removed in 1847. Wm Huston commanded a company after the surrender of Hull at Detroit. At the general call in 1813, he raised a company of light horse, which, with other companies went to Sandusky and received orders from General Harrison to be disbanded. They held an indignation meeting. Judge Osborn of this place presiding, censuring Harrison for not allowing them to enter active service. John R. Turner, for years clerk of the court, and Mr. Smith, father of Charles S. Smith, were members of the company referred to. In 1806-7 or 8, William Huston who followed keel boating, took a load of produce up the Scioto to Chillicothe, his return trip being government scrip from the Chillicothe land office, on route for the National Capital. This money was securely packed in iron bound boxes, with-a-rope-attached to each end and a buoy, so that in case the boat should strike a snag or be attacked by roughs at the mouth of Big Sandy, as was feared, the buoys would indicate to those in the secret where the money could be found. Six men armed with rifles guarded it. Mr. Huston took the boat to Pittsburg and from thence the money was taken in wagons to its destination.

He remembers seeing the flotilla of Aaron Burr, pass down the Ohio in the winter of 1806-7 intended for the capture of Louisiana, for which conspiracy he was afterward tried at Richmond and for want of evidence acquitted.

Among some of the early recollections of the place, Mr. Huston calls the following to mind:The building of Jacob Lingman's brick house in the year 1806, the first brick building in Portsmouth. In the fall of that year, he and two brothers, with, other children were playing under the bank and the leaves from the sycamore and elm trees had taken fire from the fires left by the women who in those days did all their washing at the river, when his brother Hiram's clothing took fire. The screams of the children attracted the workmen on the Clingman house who came to the rescue, but his brother, a little boy of four years was burned so severely that death ensued that night. About that time Frank Adams built a mill a little north-west of the Portsmouth machine works and found ry, on what is now the Scioto bottom and dug a race to a bend in the Scioto river to bring the water to his mill. The first rise destroyed his enterprise, eventually changed the current of the river and swept away the mill which was never put in successful operation. Land at his earliest recollection was entered at the Chillicothe land office at .25 per acre. In 1809 or 10, a ship was built by a man named Simmons, above Turkey creek, which was taken to New Orleans, rigged and sent to Europe. A report gained credence that she was chased by a pirate, but proved to be too fast a sailor-for the highwayman of the seas and-escaped. John H. Thornton and wife, parents of the blind musician Geo. Thornton, Elijah Glover, father of the present Elijah Glover, and Mr. Huston went to see the ship launched, but were compelled to come away disappointed, it being put in the water the following day. This was the first and last ship built in the county.

The punishment for larceny in that day sounds strange to us now. Mr. Huston was a tailor and the late Elijah Glover had bought a cloth overcoat pattern to be cut and made up by Mr. Huston. Before it was cut out the garment was stolen, with a large iron washing kettle left at the river by the women, and minor articles. Suspicion rested on a family who were about to remove from the place. Sam Brady, the teamster, who lived near where Amos B. Cole now lives, who was to move them, was requested by the citizens to take them no farther than his father's house that night. A search warrant was put in the hands of Jacob Moore, constable, who went up there that night and found the missing articles in a feather bed with the plunder of the moving. The guilty parties were brought to town and confined until their trial, when man and wife were tied to a whipping post and received a severe castigation at the hands of sheriff Parrish, Alex Curran the first clerk of the county witnessing the punishment.

Mr. Huston was married May 27th, 1823, to Miss Elizabeth Leonard, a biography of whom, with the history of her children appeared in our paper last January, at the time of her death. The subject of this sketch has been several times elected to positions of trust, which he had filled with marked ability. He was wharf master for several years, member of Council, and in 1833 was elected to represent his county in the Legislature. He ran as the Democratic anti-Maine law candidate against George Hered, Whig, and A. R. Cannady, Maine-law candidate. That Legislature is the only one since the adoption of the Constitutional Convention that has held but one session. He was also Ensign, afterwards Lieutenant, and still later, Captain of the Light Infantry Militia, a company formerly commanded by John McDowell, who served five years and resigned. In the regiment to which this company was attached was a rifle company, commanded by Capt. Loop, and a volunteer company, commanded by Capt. John Lucas, brother of Gov. Lucas. This company was known by the light linsey hunting shirts its members wore. It was in Detroit when Hull surrendered, and the boys straggled home as best they could. The following incident is remembered by Mr. Huston. Wm. Carey, member of Loop's company, was working at the Kanawha Salt Works when his company received orders to join the army. Learning of their departure, he walked home, Wm. Huston giving him a gun with the remark, "Billy, all I ask of you is an Indian's scalp." Carey pushed on, joined his company, and at Brownsville was taken prisoner. Upon his return home he said to Mr. Huston's father, "At the Brownsville fight I took a dead rest at an Indian one hundred yards off," and he added, with a twinkle of his eye, "that is as near as I got to the Indian's scalp, but you know how your gun shot." Cary was elected Sheriff in the county some time after his return.

Mr. H. is a ship carpenter, and has built five boats in this county, and three in the adjoining county of Lawrence, besides assisting in boat building in Cincinnati. In the year 1822 the river froze up, and he walked from Cincinnati home. The first steamboat he ever saw was a little thing resembling a canal boat, with stern wheel in a recess, that created quite a panic at the river landing. It was named the Comet, and has long since given place to more reliable luminaries.

Game in town was plenty in the early days. Jos. Saulsbury, Jas. Bacom, and Mr. Huston killed a bear in the river in front of town, while a buck crossing the river near where the Water Works now stands, was captured by Mr. Huston in the novel way of jumping out of a canoe on its back. He got a good ducking, but held on to his venison. Levi C. Barker stood on the bank with the advance guard of civilization in his hand in the shape of a long rifle, which would have settled the antlered racer, if Mr. Huston's hold had been a frail one. How strong was the arm of the early pioneer. Fire, field, nor flood had terrors for him.

Our interviews with these sterling men grow more interesting, and we will present next week the third of the series, feeling confident the articles will supply missing links in the chain of our hitherto neglected pioneer history.

(Capt. Loop should read Capt. Roop/Rupe.)

- Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers of Scioto County - Number Two. The Portsmouth Times, Saturday, May 24, 1873. p.2.

Samuel J. Huston, Sr. was born Sept. 29, 1800, in Winchester, Virginia, a son of William and Susan or Susannah (Boyd) Huston. His parents removed to Ohio in 1802 and he was reared and educated in Portsmouth. In 1823, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Leonard, of Portsmouth. Mr. Leonard is a descendant of Sampson Leonard and Margaret Fiennes from the House of Hurst-Monceux of Sussex, England. Their family consisted of fourteen children, of whom eight still survive:Elizabeth, Cecelia, Sarah, Helen, Margaret, Maria, Irene, and Samuel J. Soon after his marriage he moved to Brush Creek, where he assisted in building steamboats, after which he built one of the best boats on the Ohio River. He has ten acres of valuable land on which he has a neat residence, situated just outside the corporate limits of Portsmouth. He is now in his eighty-third year, and is an active old gentleman. His father was a native of Virginia, of Irish descent. He came to the Scioto Valley in 1802 and built the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. He was a tailor by trade, but did not work much at that, but followed keel-boating a number of years. Our subject's mother was born near Brandywine, Maryland and died in 1854.

- History of Scioto County [Ohio]...Pioneer Sketches, 1883

Old Time Steamboatmen

Questions asked of a Mr. Jim Hannabe for the article:

Didn’t S. J. Huston - the old gentleman - used to be a river man?

“Yes; he was himself a practical ship-carpenter, and built several boats and ran them South. He built the Eureka about 1843. He built the hull at the foot of court Street and took it to Cincinnati, where the boat was finished. He took her round to Mobile and ran her on the Alabama River. That country was just then waking up to the importance of steamboating, and most of their boats came from the Ohio River. Adam Leonard - who I believe was a relative of Captain Huston - was clerk.

His son William was clerk on some of his boats, wasn’t he?

"Yes; on the Eighth of January. She was built here about 1848, and was named by Mr. Huston in honor of “Old Hickory”. She was a side-wheeler. Later he built the Irene. Some of his boats burned, and I believe came near breaking him up."

- The Portsmouth Times, August 14, 1886.

Captain Samuel Huston

Captain Samuel Huston is ninety years old. He was born in Winchester, Va., and his parents came to this place in 1801. Portsmouth has been his home ever since. The old gentleman has led an active life, and still has a wonderfully bright and vigorous mind, though disabled physically by the dislocation of one of his hips, the result of a fall two or three years ago. Mr. Huston is brimming over with interesting reminiscences. He saw the first steamboat that ever passed down the Ohio. When a very small boy, he thinks it was the year 1809, he accompanied his father aboard the strange craft at the landing here. The boat was named The Comet, and was about the size of a common canalboat.

There was a roof above for shelter, and the sides were simply curtains. In later years he became a boat-builder and owner. Among the steamers he has built may be mentioned the Transit, Sylph, Ohio (not one of the modern Ohios), Belvidere, Eight of January, Diana, Irene, Columbus, Marmion, Lark, and Eureka. There were several others for distant trades, not christened until they reached their destination, and he has forgotten their names. When a small boy he saw Aaron Burr's celebrated expedition from Blennerhassett's Island pass this place in their rugged bateaux. The boats were strong and well closed in. The oars were thrust through holes in the side, like the keel boats of that time. Opposite each hole was a bench on which the rower sat.

Captain Huston also went out in his canoe to the keelboat containing the historic expedition of Clark, sent by the Government from Pittsburg to the headwaters of the Missouri. His first Presidential vote was for Jackson, in 1824. He has never missed a Presidential election since, and has always been a staunch Democrat and was a member of the Legislature at one time. For years he was a steamboat captain, in which capacity he has navigated from Pittsburg to Mobile, and up the Mobile River and the larger tributaries of the Mississippi. Having acquired a snug competence, he retired, years ago, to his handsome residence where he has spent his declining years with his diligent and devoted daughter, Miss Irene.

The Portsmouth Times. 31 Jan 1890.

Built the Marmion (1837), Transit (1838), Columbus (1842), Lark (1843), Eureka (1845), Eight of January (1846), Belvidere (1848), Irene (1850), and Diana (1857).

Passing Away of Samuel J. Huston, Sr.

Samuel J. Huston, Sr., died Monday evening at five minutes past seven. By his death Scioto county loses its oldest pioneer, a man, up to the hour of his death, of great mental capacity, honest and fair in all his dealings and above all, a Christian gentleman. His life as a citizen was above reproach, and he earned and held the respect of all who knew him. The history of his life, which lacked but a few years of covering the nineteenth century, is one of much interest. He died aged 92 years and five months, an age that but few attain, after an illness of but a little over a day.

The deceased was a son of William and Susan Boyd Huston and was born at Winchester, Virginia, September 29th, 1800.

In 1802 his parents removed from Virginia into the Scioto Valley, his father building in that year the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. His father, was a native of Virginia, of Irish descent, and was a tailor by trade. He did not give much attention to that trade, however, devoting himself to keel boating. His mother was a native of Maryland and died in 1854. When quite young, the deceased learned the trade of making spinning wheels and followed it for a number of years.

In 1823 he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Leonard, a neighbor of the Hustons. Shortly after his marriage, he removed to Brush Creek where he assisted in building steamboats. Afterwards he built one of the best steamboats on the Ohio River. In 1847 he built a saw mill on Brush Creek which he ran for some time.

In politics Mr. Huston was a Democrat, and in 1854 was elected by that party to a seat in the state legislature. While a member of that body he distinguished himself by his ability to cope with any question that came before it. During his active business life, Mr. Huston amassed quite a fortune. For a number of years past, however, he has lived a quiet retired life, attended by his ever faithful and loving daughter, Miss Irene, at his beautiful home on the Chillicothe pike just outside of the city corporate limits. Sunday he complained of feeling badly and during the afternoon was compelled to seek his bed. Kidney troubles were his complaint and he steadily grew worse until relieved by death. His family consisted of fourteen children.

The surviving children are Mrs. Margaret Shelby, Lexington, Mo; Mrs. Cecelia Collins, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Sarah Washington and Mrs. Helen Jacobs, of Richmond, Mo.; Samuel J. Huston, of Lexington, Mo.; and Miss Irene , of this city. Mrs. Shelby arrived in the city Monday night. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, from the residence.

The Portsmouth Blade. 1 Mar 1893. p.1.

Passing Away of Samuel J. Huston, Sr.

Samuel J. Huston, Sr., died Monday evening at five minutes past seven. By his death Scioto county loses its oldest pioneer, a man, up to the hour of his death, of great mental capacity, honest and fair in all his dealings and above all, a Christian gentleman. His life as a citizen was above reproach, and he earned and held the respect of all who knew him. The history of his life, which lacked but a few years of covering the nineteenth century, is one of much interest. He died aged 92 years and five months, an age that but few attain, after an illness of but a little over a day.

The deceased was a son of William and Susan Boyd Huston and was born at Winchester, Virginia, September 29th, 1800.

In 1802 his parents removed from Virginia into the Scioto Valley, his father building in that year the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. His father, was a native of Virginia, of Irish descent, and was a tailor by trade. He did not give much attention to that trade, however, devoting himself to keel boating. His mother was a native of Maryland and died in 1854. When quite young, the deceased learned the trade of making spinning wheels and followed it for a number of years.

In 1823 he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Leonard, a neighbor of the Hustons. Shortly after his marriage, he removed to Brush Creek where he assisted in building steamboats. Afterwards he built one of the best steamboats on the Ohio River. In 1847 he built a saw mill on Brush Creek which he ran for some time.

In politics Mr. Huston was a Democrat, and in 1854 was elected by that party to a seat in the state legislature. While a member of that body he distinguished himself by his ability to cope with any question that came before it. During his active business life, Mr. Huston amassed quite a fortune. For a number of years past, however, he has lived a quiet retired life, attended by his ever faithful and loving daughter, Miss Irene, at his beautiful home on the Chillicothe pike just outside of the city corporate limits. Sunday he complained of feeling badly and during the afternoon was compelled to seek his bed. Kidney troubles were his complaint and he steadily grew worse until relieved by death. His family consisted of fourteen children.

The surviving children are Mrs. Margaret Shelby, Lexington, Mo; Mrs. Cecelia Collins, Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Sarah Washington and Mrs. Helen Jacobs, of Richmond, Mo.; Samuel J. Huston, of Lexington, Mo.; and Miss Irene , of this city. Mrs. Shelby arrived in the city Monday night. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, from the residence.

The Portsmouth Blade. 1 Mar 1893. p.1.

Notice of Appointment

Estate of Samuel J. Huston, Sr., Deceased

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have been appointed and qualified executors of the last will and testament of Samuel J. Huston, Sr., late of Scioto county, Ohio, deceased, by the Probate Court of said county.

Samuel J. Huston

Margaret R. Shelby

March 20, 1893

- The Portsmouth Times. 15 April 1893. p. 7.

Age:69, Retired, Place of Birth:Virginia

Samuel Jones Huston

Was born in Winchester, Virginia, on the 29th of September, 1800. His father, William Huston, was a native of the Old Dominion and his mother, whose maiden name was Susanna Boyd - was born in Maryland. In January, 1802, his parents emi grated to this place, coming down the river in what was called a Kentucky flat-boat. The ice MRS running so thick in the river that they were compelled at night to cut trees down on the bank, falling them in the river, and then work their boats between the trees and shore to protect it from ice. Fires were made of logs on shore to keep them warm, by which they spent the nights. Other relatives of Mr. Huston's parents landed here but continued their journey from this place to Walnut Plains, in the central part of the State. The parents of Mr. Huston when they came to this town, moved into a log cabin on a spot now west of Scioto street, about half way between the Scioto bridge and Front street. Here he lived until his father built a dwelling house, which was about the fourth in the town. The Bacom house on the lot near where the rolling mill store now stands, or the Morgan house, was the first erected in the place. The family and children consisted of Mary, widow of Uriah White, dead; Julia, who married a Mr. Anderson of Illinois, dead; Mark died in 1829. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at Erie when peace was proclaimed. The army came down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to this place on flat boats and keel boats, and was marched to Chillicothe where it was discharged. Sidney, relict of the late Samuel Williams; Hiram, dead; John living in Indiana, whither he removed in 1847. Wm Huston commanded a company after the surrender of Hull at Detroit. At the general call in 1813, he raised a company of light horse, which, with other companies went to Sandusky and received orders from General Harrison to be disbanded. They held an indignation meeting. Judge Osborn of this place presiding, censuring Harrison for not allowing them to enter active service. John R. Turner, for years clerk of the court, and Mr. Smith, father of Charles S. Smith, were members of the company referred to. In 1806-7 or 8, William Huston who followed keel boating, took

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