Person:Samuel Conway (1)

Samuel b. 1756, d. 1830, m. Elizabeth Clemings b. 1765; m. Margerry Miller in 1812 Mary 1785 m. Brownfield, d. 1842 Elizabeth 1786 Susanna 1790 Sally 1792d. 1818 Samuel 1794 Anna 1796m. Miller, d. 1866 Benjamin 1799 Darcus 1801 Simeon 1803-1857; m.Mary McRae in 1823, d. 1825 Joseph 1805-1860

I will now take up the history of Samuel. He too was in the Revolutionary Service, but not as a soldier. He manufactured gunpowder for the army. Prior to the Revolution he was a soldier procured by Virginia against the Indians, commonly known as Dunmore’s War, and was in the sanguinary battle of Point Pleasant, where the whites were commanded by Col. Lewis and the Indians by Cornplanter (see Colonial History). After the Revolution he came to Kentucky, first settling in Bourbon Co. but after a few years, when wild game became scarce, he moved and settled on Main Licking River, about 40 miles south of Cincinnati, in what is now Pendleton Co. That portion of Ky. was at that time and for many years afterwards a veritable “Hunters Paradise”. The land with the exception of the wide river bottoms, is very broken and for many years after the settling of Ky. remained a dense almost impenetrable wilderness. Again in 1818, he sold out and moved to northeast Mo. settling in Marion Co. I don’t think he ever had but two sons, one named Ben and the other Sineon (Simeon) who died some 35 years ago in Lewis Co. Mo. And Benjamin died without children. I have met with a son of Sineon’s, Prof. D.M. Conway, at this time in chare of a high school in Shelbyville, Mo. but afterwards went down, I think to some school in southwest Mo. There were several daughters, the descendants of three of them now living in Pendleton Co. Ky. Husband of one of the daughters was Smith (so you see we have the honor to be related to the great Smith family.) Another to Mr. Beckett, another to Mr. Brownfield – this name in olden times was called Brumfield. Henry C. Ogle, Sr.

1. ↑ Mandagelo, Katherine on ancestry.com
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2. ↑ 1830 US Census.
3. ↑ Weant, Kenneth, comp.. Boone County, Missouri Obituaries, 1871-91 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Weant, Kenneth, comp.. 5558 Deaths Reported in and Chronological Index to Selected Articles from the Columbia Missouri Herald, 5 Jan 1871 - 31 Dec 1891.

   Name: Samuel Conway
   Birth Date/Age: abt 74 *
   Death Date: 12 Sep 1830

4. ↑ Continental.