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SAMPLE, JOHN T., far., S. 6; P. O. West Point; second son of Wm. Sample, who was born in Kentucky in 1792, and in the 21st year of his age, enlisted at the breaking-out of the war of 1812, in which he served three years and three months under officers Whitesides and Armstrong, and soon after its close, married Sarah Cole, who was born near the line between Indiana and Ohio, in 1802; they first settled near Jacksonville, Ill., and in 1836, were among the pioneers of Lee Co., and erected their cabin on Sec. 36, Marion Tp., where he entered 420 acres; his son John T. still retains 112 acres of the original farm, now valued at $40 per acre; the father lived to the ripe old age of 81 years, and died the 27th of September, 1873; the mother, the 9th of October, 1875, leaving a family of four sons and one daughter; all but one settled in Iowa; the fifth was John T., born in Morgan Co., Ill., the 17th of April, 1830; he was 6 years of age when he came to this county; and with of an education such as was afforded at the log-schools of his day. On the 23d December, 1869, he married Miss Annie M., daughter of Francis J. and Barbara Bunn, natives of Germany, and emigrated to America in 1850; they settled at Fort Madison, where his father died in 1853, and his mother in 1855; Mrs. Sample was born in Germany the 21st of May, 1848; have five children — John A., born October, 1870; Nellie, 10th of February, 1872; Charles, 8th of September, 1873; Eliza J., January, 1876; and Annie, 8th of November, 1877. Democratic; Mrs. Sample is a member of the Baptist Church.