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SAMUEL LILLY. 



ftiOTQS. BY EVANS. 



MRS. ELIZABETH LILLY. 



SAMUEL LILLY. 



The paternal grandfather of Samuel Lilly was a native of 

 Wales; his maternal grandfather was a native of Germany. 

 His Grrandmother Lilly came to America and settled in North- 

 ampton Co., Pa., many years before the Revolutionary war. 

 She had several children, of whom John F., the father of 

 Samuel, was the youngest. John F. was born in Northampton 

 Co., Pa., and married Miss Catherine Bowlender, a native of 

 the same place. Of this union seven children, four sons and 

 three daughters, were born, of whom Samuel was the sixth child 

 and youngest son. John F. was a blacksmith by occupation. 

 In 1818, John F. and family went to Pickaway Co., Ohio, and 

 he died there in August, 1820. The following November, 

 Samuel took his mother to Columbia Co., Pa., and resided there 

 four years. His mother lived to be about one hundred years old. 

 Samuel Lilly was born in Northumberland Co., Pa., Aug. 7, 

 1793. He worked with his father at the blacksmith trade 

 when young ; also for some fifteen years was engaged in the 

 distilling business, and the remainder of his life was engaged 

 upon the farm. He married Miss Mary Wooliver, daughter of 

 Jacob Wooliver, of Columbia Co., Pa., May 5, 1814. Of this 

 union three sons were born, viz., John, Jacob, and Elisha. 

 Jacob is now dead. Mrs. Lilly died November, 1819, while 

 living in Pickaway Co., Ohio. Mr. Lilly married for his second 

 wife Miss Elizabeth Wooliver, sister of his first wife, Septem- 



ber, 1821. She was bom June 23, 1799. Of this union ten 

 children, two sons and eight daughters, were bom, namely : 

 Catherine, Hester, Louvina, Mary Ann, Alvin J. (was killed 

 by an accident in his eighth year), Clarissa, Elizabeth, Miranda, 

 Matilda, and Willis S., who was born June 23, 1845, and is 

 now at home with his father, and is the owner of the old 

 home. Mrs. Lilly died April 15, 1865, the same day that 

 President Lincoln died. 



In politics Mr. Lilly was formerly a Democrat, but later in 

 life a Republican. Mr. Lilly and his second wife are members 

 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



Mr. Lilly is now an old man of eighty-six years, in good 

 health, living at the old home in Hornby, where he settled 

 in 1831. His son was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion ; 

 enlisted Sept. 15, 1864, in Company F, 188th Regiment New 

 York Volunteers ; said regiment was in nine engagements, and 

 Mr. Lilly was in all of them save one. He was honorably dis- 

 charged July 8, 1865, and returned home to remain with his 

 parents. 



He married Cynthia, daughter of Daniel Buck, of Beaver 

 Dam, Schuyler Co., N. Y., Jan 24, 1866. She was bora Feb. 

 21, 1847. Of this union two children, Cassia and Roy, are 

 born. Mr. Samuel Lilly's son, Elisha, was also in the war of 

 the Rebellion, and was honorably discharged. 



