HUEY
FAMILY.—The first of the Huey family to locate in this county
was Francis, a native of Fayette County, who located on a tract of land in
what is now Jackson Township in 1797. He afterward went back and married
Miss [Mary] Carnahan,
of Fayette County, and they lived on this tract of land until their
deaths. His wife died in 1825, and he in 1842. Their family consisted of William
Robert, James, Francis, John, Samuel, George, David, Elizabeth, Mary [wife
of James Bestwick],
Samuel, David and John.
Samuel
Huey was born on the homestead in Jackson Township in 1815, and
attended the log school-house of that period. He learned the stone-mason
trade, which he followed for a number of years, and after the death of his
father he and his sister, Elizabeth, lived on
the homestead for many years, and after her death he, being unmarried,
made his home with his brother David, who was
born on the homestead in 1828. He also attended the log school-houses, and
about 1848 purchased his present farm. In 1848 he married Mary
Davy, a native of England. She died in 1865, leaving four children:
Leander, in Cool Spring Township, married Mary
Bestwick, of Cool Spring Township, and has two children, Jennie
and Hay; William, on the old
homestead, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel
Londe, of Cool Spring Township, and has one child, Maud;
Jennie, who died March 10, 1880; Walter,
of Cool Spring Township, married Emma,
daughter of William Fowler, of Sandy Lake
Township, and has two children, Mamie and William.
The second wife of David was Mary Rodenbaugh,
who died March 28, 1882, leaving five children: John,
Laura May, Clarence Ellsworth, Louie, Samuel. His third wife was Angeline
Rodenbaugh, a sister of his second wife. By her he has no children.
The Hueys have always been connected with the Democratic party, and are
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
History of
Mercer County, 1888, page
1078.
