David Samson
Marion Township Bio, Pike County, Ohio
David Samson was born on the Pickaway Plains, near the present site of Circleville, October 12, 1802, while his parents, David and Sarah (Broris) Samson were en route from Berkeley County, Virginia to their new home in the Northwestern Territory. His father was of French and English descent, and his mother of German. They located in Alexandria, and a year later purchased a farm below Portsmouth, where they resided till 1816 when they removed to Pike County, where the father died in 1832 and the mother in 1847. David passed his early life in assisting his father, and on October 14, 1823, married Nancy Bennett, of Scioto County, who died in 1877 in the seventy-fourth year of her age. They had a family of ten children - Robert (deceased), Sarah , Mary Ann, Caroline, William J., David N., Nancy, Elias V., John S. and James R. Mr. Samson has been engaged in farming, and the mercantile and tanning business since his early youth. He is one of the successful citizens of Pike County. His grandmother was taken prisoner about 1763 or 1764 in the Indian war of that period, and kept prisoner for eight years, and was delivered up at the time that Bouquet invaded the heart of the Indian Territory. She was taken when a small girl and was kindly treated by them, and one of the old squaws adopted her as a daughter. Mr. Samson, in his old days, is surrounded by a large circle of relatives, who celebrate every year the anniversary of his birthday, of this the oldest man in the township.
was born on the Pickaway Plains, near the present site of Circleville, October 12, 1802, while his parents, David and Sarah (Broris) Samson were en route from Berkeley County, Virginia to their new home in the Northwestern Territory. His father was of French and English descent, and his mother of German. They located in Alexandria, and a year later purchased a farm below Portsmouth, where they resided till 1816 when they removed to Pike County, where the father died in 1832 and the mother in 1847. David passed his early life in assisting his father, and on October 14, 1823, married Nancy Bennett, of Scioto County, who died in 1877 in the seventy-fourth year of her age. They had a family of ten children - Robert (deceased), Sarah , Mary Ann, Caroline, William J., David N., Nancy, Elias V., John S. and James R. Mr. Samson has been engaged in farming, and the mercantile and tanning business since his early youth. He is one of the successful citizens of Pike County. His grandmother was taken prisoner about 1763 or 1764 in the Indian war of that period, and kept prisoner for eight years, and was delivered up at the time that Bouquet invaded the heart of the Indian Territory. She was taken when a small girl and was kindly treated by them, and one of the old squaws adopted her as a daughter. Mr. Samson, in his old days, is surrounded by a large circle of relatives, who celebrate every year the anniversary of his birthday, of this the oldest man in the township. History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - 1884
Published by the Scioto County Genealogy Society
Pike Co. Genealogy Society a Chapter of O.G.S.
P. O. Box 224,
Waverly, Ohio 45690
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