[1]Samuel H Jameson was married May 5, 1839, to Miss Laura A. Wells, of Licking county, Ohio. She was the daughter of Chester and Laura A. Wells [Polly (Case) Welles], and was born in 1818. They had three children.
Obit: "Died at Hanover, January 19th AD 1848 in the full assurance of a happy immortality, Lura Ann Wells, wife of Samuel H. Jameson, aged 29 years 6 months and 23 days."
Sources
↑ History of Sangamon County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. United States: Inter-state publishing Company, 1881. p.915
"U.S., High School Student Lists, 1821-1923", Original data: School Student Lists. Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2395 #1653, [Laura A Wells; Publication Year: 1838; Publication State: Ohio; School Name: Granville Female Academy; Residence: Hanover; Title: Catalogue of the officers and members of Granville Female Academy for the year ending February 22, 1838; Granville, Ohio.]
History of Sangamon County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. United States: Inter-state publishing Company, 1881.
The Jamesons in America, 1647-1900: Genealogical Records and Memoranda. Ephraim Orcutt Jameson. (1901). United States: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014. p.179
Family Record of Chester Wells and Poly Case, unpublished listing of family birth dates, original in possession of Todd Maxcy, c.1835
"Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947", FHL Film Number: 1614425, Ancestry Record 2542 #1251254, [Alice Susan Maxey death 30 Jun 1928 (born 7 Apr 1846 in Coschacton, Ohio), daughter of Samuel H. Jameson & Lura Myra Wells, in Island Grove, Sangamon, Illinois; Father Birth Place: Wheeling, West Virginia, Mother Birth Place: Coschacton, Ohio]
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