Person:Samuel Chantry (1)

Birth: Nov. 13, 1829 Lancaster County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Apr. 18, 1912 Guthrie County Iowa, USA

Samuel B. Chantry, one of the prominent men of Thompson township, is a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was born on the 13th day of November, 1829. When seven years old, he with his father emigrated to Van Buren county, Iowa, in the year 1837. Remained there ten years, then moved to Henry county, where he began working out; earned money and entered eighty acres of land in Warren county in the year 1853, and lived there until 1859; sold his land in Warren county and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Grant township, Guthrie county, Iowa, in December, 1855; remained in Warren county until 1859, and then went to Guthrie county and remained there since. Mr. Chantry was married on the 9th of May, 1860, to Miss Sarah E. Coleman, a native of Indiana. They have seven children living--Thomas, living at home; Jennie, wife of H. W. Grieve; Allen, Nettie, Arbie, Rhoda, Robert, and Hattie, dead.

above from: History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.

Thompson Township Transcribed by Bobbi Pohl http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iabiog/guthrie/g1884/g1884-thompson.htm

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Parents:
 Thomas Chantry (1795 - 1864)
 Hannah Passmore Chantry (1805 - 1893)

Spouse:
 Sarah E. Coleman Chantry (1840 - 1891)*

Siblings:
 Eliza R Chantry Bassett (1825 - 1896)*
 William A. Chantry (1827 - 1896)*
 Samuel Bernarn Chantry (1829 - 1912)
 Hannah Mariah Chantry Cook (1838 - 1915)*
 Marcus Newton Chantry (1847 - 1933)*

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SAMUEL B. CHANTRY DIED 4M 18 1912 AGED 82Y 5M 5D

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Burial: Spring Valley Cemetery Casey Guthrie County Iowa, USA