Person:Samuel Samples (8)

Samuel W. 'Nicholas County Sam' Samples

• Long Sam Samples was only one of four Samuel Samples' that lived in the Twistabout community during his life time.
• The other Samuel's were

Short Sam

Nicholas County Sam and

Lion Sam

• Long Sam and Short Sam were neighbors and were never known to agree on anything, except that there should be a fence between their properties. However, each had his inflexible idea of where the property lines ran, and each built a fence where he thought the line laid. These two fence were from eight to twelve feet apart, leaving a lane between then that was about a half mile long and that was locallyknown as "Samples Lane."

1.   Don Norman. Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants, Inc.

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   DON NORMAN FILES INTRODUCTION
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   Samuel Samples
   http://hackerscreek.com/norman/SAMPLES/SAMUEL.htm