Person:Samuel Hague (1)

Biography

Samuel Hague11 Carroll 1765-1815: The Settlements, By John Perry Alderman; Published by Alderman Books, 1985, p. 248. Samuel was from Quaker stock. His widowed mother, Anne, remarried William Wileman (the name may be Wildman) in 1777 (6 Hinshaw 499) and settled in Bedford County. Samuel apparently grew up in Bedford and had bought land there by 1793. In 1803 he sold his Bedford property and moved to Grayson. He bought one of the finest farms in the county, 400 acres on Daniels branch adjoining Jacob Coulson, and he paid $1000 for it, quite a sum of money for land in his day. He lived there for fourteen years, selling it in 1818 to Elisha Beller for $700 (Grayson, D. B. 2-96; D. B. 4-18). He was active in county affairs and loved to attend court. He was frequently on the jury and was overseer of two road precincts (Grayson, Orders 1806-1811). He was probably the father of Mary Hague wo married John Edwards in 1816 and probably of Nancy who married Lewis McClain in 1814; he was a surety on both marriage bonds. John Wileman who lifed for a time on Little Reed was his half-brother, and Deborah Wileman Newman (wife of Nimrod Newman the younger) was his half-sister, as shown by the will of William Wileman (Bedford, W. B. 3-96). Samuel Hague’s wife, as indicated by the Bedford deeds, was named Eleanor.