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Francis Huey


HUEY FAMILY.—The first of the Huey family to locate in this county was Francis, a native of Fayette County, who located on a tract of land in what is now Jackson Township in 1797. He afterward went back and married Miss [Mary] Carnahan, of Fayette County, and they lived on this tract of land until their deaths. His wife died in 1825, and he in 1842. Their family consisted of William Robert, James, Francis, John, Samuel, George, David, Elizabeth, Mary [wife of James Bestwick], Samuel, David and John.

Samuel Huey was born on the homestead in Jackson Township in 1815, and attended the log school-house of that period. He learned the stone-mason trade, which he followed for a number of years, and after the death of his father he and his sister, Elizabeth, lived on the homestead for many years, and after her death he, being unmarried, made his home with his brother David, who was born on the homestead in 1828. He also attended the log school-houses, and about 1848 purchased his present farm. In 1848 he married Mary Davy, a native of England. She died in 1865, leaving four children: Leander, in Cool Spring Township, married Mary Bestwick, of Cool Spring Township, and has two children, Jennie and Hay; William, on the old homestead, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Londe, of Cool Spring Township, and has one child, Maud; Jennie, who died March 10, 1880; Walter, of Cool Spring Township, married Emma, daughter of William Fowler, of Sandy Lake Township, and has two children, Mamie and William. The second wife of David was Mary Rodenbaugh, who died March 28, 1882, leaving five children: John, Laura May, Clarence Ellsworth, Louie, Samuel. His third wife was Angeline Rodenbaugh, a sister of his second wife. By her he has no children. The Hueys have always been connected with the Democratic party, and are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1078


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