Family:Samuel Houston and Esther Waugh (1)

Samuel Huston a son of Samuel Huston and Isabella (Sharon) Huston, born in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, after 1750. Esther Waugh was the daughter of John and Martha (Rankin) Waugh, also born in East Pennsboro, probably around 1761. The Waugh farm where Esther grew up was about 2 miles to the northwest of the Huston farm.

Samuel married Esther Waugh about 1779 and they lived and worked on the family farm. The children of Samuel and Esther (Waugh) Huston were: • John Huston • Samuel Huston • James Huston • Esther (Huston) Quin • William Huston • Richard Huston

Samuel fought in the Revolutionary War as part of the 3rd Battalion of Cumberland Associators during at least 1777 , 1778 , 1780 and 1781, serving alongside friends and neighbors including Captain James Sample (their neighbor to the south), 1st Lt. John Clendenin (his first cousin), and Ensign/Captain John McCormick (James Sample’s brother-in-law.) Note that many attribute Samuel's records to his father, but that is very unlikely given their respective ages and the militia law at that time.

Esther’s father, John Waugh, died in 1783. The next year, Samuel’s father made out his will and died a short time later, granting the Huston farm in East Pennsboro Township to Samuel’s two youngest brothers, John and Jonathan, with the condition that they pay Samuel 50 pounds over three years.

In the chapter on St. Clair Township, History of Columbiana County describes early settlers, saying “in 1798, Samuel Huston upon section 21.”

In December 1804, after Esther’s mother passed away, Samuel and Esther went before the Orphans’ Court in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and made requests for partition and valuation of the lands owned by Esther’s deceased parents John and Martha Waugh, both of whom died without a will. John had died in 1783 and Martha Waugh and her sons continued working the farm, and Martha was granted two Warrants for a total of 500 acres in 1789. So, when Martha died in 1803, the amount of land was quite valuable.

Samuel Huston died in Columbiana County, Ohio, around June of 1811. Esther and their son John Huston were named the administrators of Samuel’s estate on 2 Jul 1811.

According to of History of Columbiana County, Ohio , Samuel was buried in a plot on John McLaughlin’s farm: The first burying ground in St. Clair township was a spot on John McLaughlin’s farm, now owned by A.B. Hickman, about a mile north of Calcutta. Graves were dug under a little clump of trees, but no headstones marked the resting places of those who slept there, although marks of the graves are said to be seen there yet. Who were buried there cannot now be told, but it is certain that Samuel Huston, one of St. Clair’s pioneers, and father of James Huston, now living in St. Clair, was one of the number.

Esther lived with son James after Samuel’s death. James was drafted in the War of 1812 but secured a substitute so that he could care for his widowed mother.

By 1820, the census indicates Esther and James were still living alone on the farm in St. Clair, Columbiana County, Ohio.

Esther likely died between 1820 and 1830, as none of the 1830 Censuses for the children included a female that would have been her age, but we know for certain that she had passed away before 1 May 1838 when the Martha Trimble petition was filed.

1. ↑ Page 47, in Samuel Huston and Esther Waugh : Pioneers of Columbiana County, Ohio
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