Page 3 - In an article in the Western Pioneer George Sample states that in 1806, he loaded two flat boats with flour at his residence on Ohio Brush Creek and took them from there to New Orleans.
Page 15 - From Sample's Tavern at the crossing of Brush Creek...
Page 121 - A petition for road in 1803 from Shoemaker's Crossing of Brush Creek - Surnames of signers: Sample, Shoemaker, Hatfield and others.
Page 126 - Sample's on Brush Creek
Page 505 - James Anderson (1796 - 1886) was fond of telling humorous stories. He was fond of telling of David Bradford's celebrated drive down the Dunbarton Hill. Bradford, who had a coach at Dunbarton, just repaired, wanted it down at the Sample Tavern at the foot of the hill. It was winter and the hill was covered with ice. He hitched two horses to the coach in front of the tongue and drove them from Dunbarton down the hill to the Sample Tavern. Bradford said it was a poor horse that could not keep out of the way of the coach.
Page 511 thru 513 - Samuel Grimes Bradford was born in West Union, December 3, 1813. His father was Samuel Bradford and his mother, Ruth Shoemaker. They were married August 11, 1811, by Job Dinning. Her Father was Peter Shoemaker, who lived below the iron bridge, and whose will was recorded in 1799. Samuel Grames Bradford was Sheriff of Adams County in 1812 and 1813.
In October of 1810, he was appointed Recorder of Adams County to succeed General Darlington. On the seventh of July, 1813, he was Captain of a militia Company. He left a deed partly recorded and started with his company for the war. He never returned. He died August 13, 1813, in the army and is buried at Urbana. His widow was married June 1, 1815, to Col. Samuel R. Wood, by whom she had five children, Mrs. S. P. Kilpatrick, of Dunbarton; Mrs. George Sample, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Rev. Lock, of Illinois; Mrs. Herdman, of Iowa; David Wood, of Newport, Ky., and Frank Wood, of Urbana, Ohio. David Bradford the brother of Samuel our subject, who married a daughter of Rev. John Meek, lived and died in West Union. His father General Bradford...
Page 649 - Captain Samuel R. Wood was born September 06, 1788. He died September 23, 1867. Ruth Shoe maker, whom he married as the widow of Samuel Bradford, was born August 18, 1793. She died August 25, 1879. The following children were born to them: James Hervey, Angeline, Caroline, John Nelson, David, Matilda, Ann Elizabeth, George W., Joseph William and Francis Marion.
Ruth Shoemaker is said to have been stolen by the Indian's in 1796 while residing on Ohio Brush Creek at Shoemaker's Crossing, in the vicinity of the mouth of Lick Fork.
Page 671 - In 1811, Mr. Treber, with George Sample, made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat loaded with produce for that market. On their way, they, with others bound on a like voyage, tied their boats at New Madrid, Mo. At this time occurred the terrible earthquake at that place, a short description of which is given by Mrs. Treber.
Page 746 - John W. Fristee was born July 13, 1851, at the old homestead in the great bend of Brush Creek. His father was Richard Fristoe, and his mother, Anna Sample...Richard Fristoe, father of John bought the Sample farm, where Sample's Tavern had been kept and went to farming in 1833...(Note: The Fristee's were German, The Sample's were Scotch-Irish)
