Samuel Earle was born April 29, 1816, in Warren, Ohio, the sixth son and eleventh child of John and Mary (Heaton) Earl, and was raised in Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. Nancy Campbell was born May 14, 1823, in Ohio, and she and Samuel were married November 17, 1844, in Lordstown, Ohio.
Samuel and Nancy first made their home in the Lordstown district, where Samuel farmed $1625 worth of land. Three children—Delilah, Ira, and Olive—were born to them in Lordstown. When Samuel’s father died in 1850, he and his brother Charles inherited the family farm, “containing about fifty acres…to be equally divided between” them.
In the early or mid-1850s, Samuel and Nancy moved to Carter Township, Spencer County, Indiana, where Samuel farmed $800 worth of farmland. Their youngest daughter, Mary, was born to them in Carter Township. In the early 1860s, the Earles moved to Gentry County, Missouri, where Samuel farmed in the Albany area, and where their daughter Delilah was married.
In 1869, wanderlust again afflicted the Earles, and they moved to Chase County, Kansas, where they built a log cabin and homesteaded eighty acres north of the town of Bazaar. Nancy died in Bazaar in 1876. After her death, their son, Ira, assumed management responsibilities for the family farm.
In the early 1880s, Ira moved with his family to Summit Township in Chautauqua County, near Sedan, Kansas. Samuel stayed in Bazaar for about a year after Ira’s departure, then he sold his farm to A. R. Palmer and moved in with Ira and his family. Samuel lived with Ira’s family until his death October 2, 1896.
Children of Samuel Earle and Nancy Campbell:
1. Delilah A. Earle m. James Ladd Ellis
2. Ira Earle m. Anna Agnes Banks
3. Olive Earle m1. G. W. Simington; m2. Robert Carleton Madden
4. Mary Earle (b. Abt 1857, Carter, Spencer Co., IN; d. 2 Aug 1891, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles Co., CA) m. (16 Jan 1879, Chase Co., KS) Leroy Martin (b. 29 Aug 1824, Gibson Co., IN, son of James Martin and Sarah Williams; d. 14 Jul 1889, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles Co., CA)
They first lived in Cottonwood Falls, Chase Co., KS, where he worked as a retail merchant. He opened a store there 12 Dec 1878. They removed before 1885 to Eagle Rock, where they died.
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Sources:
Hannum, James S., M.D., The Earl and Arrell Families from Ireland to North America (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2000), p. 24
Ohio Marriages (1800-1958) Database Record of Samuel Earle and Nancy Campbell (hosted at FamilySearch.org)
Walker, Lizzie Madden, “Samuel Earle” in Chase County Historical Sketches, Vol. I (Emporia, KS: 1940), pp. 191-192
1875 Kansas State Agricultural Census, 1 Mar 1875, Bazaar Twp., Chase Co., KS (Roll KS1875_3, p. 8 of 15)
1885 Kansas State Agricultural Census, 1 Mar 1885, Summit Twp., Chautauqua Co., KS (Roll KS1885_18, p. 47 of 81)
1895 Kansas State Agricultural Census, 1 Mar 1895, Summit Twp., Chautauqua Co., KS (Roll v115_17, p. 18 of 60)
1850 United States Federal Census, 11 Sep 1850, Lordstown, Trumbull Co., OH (Roll M432_733, p. 10 of 32)
1860 United States Federal Census, 22 Aug 1860, Carter Twp., Spencer Co., IN (Roll M653_297, p. 3 of 31)
1870 United States Federal Census, 1 Jul 1870, Bazaar Twp., Chase Co., KS (Roll M593_430, p. 5 of 10)
1880 United States Federal Census, 7 Jun 1880, Bazaar Twp., Chase Co., KS (Roll 375, p. 12 of 20)
1880 United States Federal Census, 16 Jun 1880, Cottonwood Falls, Chase Co., KS (Roll 375, p. 12 of 20)
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