Robert G Samuels (1846 - 1941)

Born 1846 in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1941 at about age 95 in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States

Biography

Bob Samuels is a part of US Black heritage.

Bob Samuels was interviewed in Washington, Arkansas in about 1937 about his life and his time as an enslaved person. The interview was done the last of April in 1936.

Bob recounts stories of his family history on his mother's side. The family was Spanish and came with DeSoto's expedition.

"My mother was a slave. She was held in Bowie County, Hickens Prairie, by Bob Trammel. They kept her locked up and I have heard mother say that she used whale bone, card bats and a spinning wheel. Finally they got so hot behind the Trammels in 1847-1848, they pulled up stakes and went down on the Guadalupe River and carried my mother's mother down there. Before they left Dave Block went on Trammel's bond and got my mother. He made my mother head housekeeper slave. She had been taught Spanish. She was tall and fair with straight black hair. She was married to Dick Samuels, my father."

The interviewer noted that Bob Samuels served as County Clerk of Hempstead County during Reconstruction.

Slave Owners

1. Dave Block

Interview: Bob Samuels was interviewed in Washington, Arkansas by Miss Hazel Horn as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Bob Samuels - Vol. 2, Arkansas, part 6; pages 113-117 images 118-122 of 376.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:MC48-5F3 : 13 January 2022), Household of Robert Samuels, Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,046.

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:1T5Z-XJM : 9 March 2022), Household of Robt G Samuels, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:9F84-LF8 : accessed 17 July 2022), Household of Robert G Samuel, Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 82, sheet 5B, family 57, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 52; FHL microfilm 1,374,065.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:M8Y7-1GL : 31 January 2021), Household of Robert Samuels, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:1YWW-8K3 : accessed 17 July 2022), Household of R G Samiels, Ozan, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 8B, line 53, family 174, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 76; FHL microfilm 2,339,811.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:9MXC-BH5B : 8 January 2021), Household of R G Samuels, Ozan Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 29-21, sheet 16B, line 67, family 297, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 140.

• "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJRG-3VR : 27 November 2014), Robert G Samuels, 03 Feb 1941; derived from "Arkansas, Death Index, 1914-1950," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); a multigenerational derivative citing Division of Vital Records, Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 (Arkansas: Arkansas Genealogical Society).

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:Q2Q5-Q1SJ : 17 December 2020), Entry for Robert Samuels, ; Burial, Washington, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States of America, Washington Cemetery; citing record ID 123773238, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.