U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Semmelman, Samuel Lewis (1845-1927) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 470 Samuel Lewis Semmelman, born 1845 in Baltimore, Maryland, son of Albright and Mary Ann (Neeb) Semmelman, was married March 4, 1877, at Newburg, Preston County, West Virginia, to Mrs. Mary M. Hubbard, daughter of William and Nellie (Harden) Dehaven. Children, Alice M., Jessie L., Charles A., Lula Gay, John Henry, Bobbie, (deceased) and Carrie May. He is a member of the following secret orders: A. F. and A. M. Lodge No. 52, Philippi; Copestone Chapter No. 12, A. F. and A. M., and DeMolay Commandry No. 11, Knights Templar, Grafton, West Virginia. In politics he is a Republican, and lives on Teter's Creek, where he owns 160 acres, 130 cleared. It is the farm on which lived John Ryan, one of the earliest settlers. He also owns two houses and eight acres of land in Old Moatsville. He is engaged in general farming, stockraising and merchandizing. He came to Barbour in 1879 from Thornton, Taylor County, where he had been operating a store for N. Rogers. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Nestorville till 1884, when he sold out to C. W. Haller and moved to the farm he now owns. In 1890 he moved to Scottsdale, Pennsylvania; then moved to Moatsville, where he had a store five years, and then sold the stock to J. M. Compton, and moved back to the farm where he has cleared thirty acres in the last two years. He was educated in the public schools of Baltimore. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #9 FULL-NAME: Samuel L. Semmelman BIRTH-DATE: June 19, 1845 BIRTH-PLACE: West Va. DEATH-DATE: January 13, 1927 at age 81y-6m-24d DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Philippi District, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Wid. OCCUPATION: Retired Farmer FATHER: Albert Semmelman (born in Germany) MOTHER: Mary Ann Neeb (born in Germany) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: General Arteriosclerosis / Uremia BURIAL-PLACE: Philippi From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #8552 FULL-NAME: Mary Matilda Semmelman BIRTH-DATE: Jan 30, 1848 BIRTH-PLACE: Somerset County, PA DEATH-DATE: July 7, 1932 DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Philippi District, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: FATHER: William DeHaven (born in Pa.) MOTHER: Nellie Hardin (born in Pa.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Cerebral Softening / Cerebral Hemorrhage BURIAL-PLACE: Philippi There are side-by-side footstones with a shared SEMMELMAN headstone in the Masonic Cemetery, Philippi, Barbour County, WV S. L. Semmelman Mary M. Semmelman 1845-1927 1848-1932 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------