Samuel Buckwalter    

SAMUEL BUCKWALTER, farmer, is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Witwer) Buckwalter, natives of Lancaster County, Penn. The father of our subject in the fall of 1843, removed with his family from Lancaster County, and settled upon a large tract of land known as the Hezlip property, in Wilmington Township, Mercer County, and in 1852 he removed from there upon the Paup Mills property, in the same township. In 1853 he removed to Grundy County. Ill., where he died in 1872, at the age of seventy-nine, his wife surviving him until July 7, 1882, when she died, aged eighty-two years. They had six sons and three daughters: John, the eldest, and Elizabeth died in this county; Daniel died in Lancaster County, and David died in Illinois: Benjamin and Michael reside in Illinois ; Mary, Mrs. Isaac Showalter, of Illinois ; Ann, Mrs. W. E. Weber, of Indiana. Our subject was born November 23 1827, in Lancaster County, Penn., where he received his early training. Upon the removal of his father to Illinois he purchased his present home, and has since been engaged in general farming. In 1879 he was elected county commissioner, which position he filled for three years. He has always been identified with public affairs connected with his township, filling nearly all the local offices. He married Miss Mattie, daughter of Jacob Bixler, of Shenango Township, and by this marriage they had four children: Benjamin, who married Mary Mussellman, and resides in Lancaster County; Abraham, died May 29, 1864; Samuel W. and Nancy J. , died in 1864. Samuel W. married Miss Lydia M. Cowden, daughter of I. Cowden, Esq., and resides on the homestead with his father.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 849.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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