Son of Conrad and Hannah Slates.
1st Spouse-Mary Long
2nd Spouse Lucretia Summers
3rd Spouse Sarah Thomas
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Following from Contributor: Richard Culler (46848597) richardpculler@msn.com: This next is a letter that I have that, Samuel Slates, sent to my great-great-grandfather Phillip Harding, from Holbert Bluff, Martin County, Indiana, October 15, 1860.
Dear Friend, It is with pleasure I take my pen in hand to write you a few lines to let you know that we are all well at present and hope this letter will find you all enjoying the same blessing.
Now Mr. Harden as I learn through Samuel Albaugh that you are coming to our country in the spring I want to rent my farm to you if you want to rent, as I am a going to quit farming for a year or two and run a saw mill, I would like to rent to you for one year or more you can have just as much ground to tend as you want to tend and I will give you a good chance, Now I want you to make up your mind if you have not got it made up about renting or buying I would just say to you, you had better not buy till you stay here awhile you can quit yourself better without you get a good chance to buy cheap.
Now Phillip I intend to make sale I think about Christmas and sell my horses and cows, and some other things plow, harrow and so on, now if you intend to come here and rent or buy and want two horses and a cow and so on such things, I will not make sale, and I will sell to you. You please write immediately and let me know about it.
Solomon, Isaac and myself we intend to get a portable sawmill and set it up about a mile and a half from here I think we can get five thousand logs at one place to saw, and they will average four and five hundred feet of plank to the log. So, I think we can make it pay we feel willing to try it any how our logs will be mostly poplar.
So, no more but remain your friend, Samuel Slates
This was written at the end of the letter, Phillip Harden and family, please wright immediately, Douglas I think will run a tolerable good pole here, But I say hurrah for Bell G. Everitt
This was in the Carroll Free Press, Carrollton, Ohio, Wednesday, January 28, 1880. (In the Loudon Township news section)
Mr. Samuel Slates, of Shelby County, Iowa, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Mary J. Salmon. He has two sisters and one brother in this county. Mr. Slates was born in this township and in the fall of 1854, he moved with his family to Putnam County, in this State. He lived there one year, and sickness compelled him to leave. From there he went to Southwestern Indiana. After living there a few years he concluded to try the "far west." He sold his farm and started with his family to make an overland trip. After traveling for forty days, he found a place to locate about forty miles above Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he has been living for the last seventeen years. He owns a farm of one thousand acres and has it all under cultivation.
Family Members
Parents
Conrad Slates
1798–1869
Hannah Funk Slates
1800–1877
Spouses
Mary Jane Long Slates
1826–1858
Lucretia Summers Slates
1830–1881
Sarah J. Thomas Slates
1833–1913
Siblings
John William Slates
1820–1899
Drusilla Slates Hibbs
1822–1902
Margaret Slates Burrier
1824–1855
Catherine Slates Colar
1829–1907
Leah Slates Allbaugh
1831–1910
Solomon Slates
1833–1894
Joseph Slates
1836–1915
Mary Ann Slates Hull Hamilton
1840–1917
Harvey Slates
1843–1914
Infant Son Slates
1846–1846
Children
Jerimiah Slates
1848–1939
William Perry Slates
1850–1853
Franklin Slates
1853–1941
Mary Jane Slates Salmon
1855–1928
John Slates
1860–1881
Hannah Slates Ames
1862–1928
Alice Slates Adams
1865–1945
Edward Slates
1874–1949
Infant Son Slates
1876–1876
