U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rusmisell, Samuel Cooper (1846-1915) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Pages 565-566 SAMUEL COOPER RUSMISELL, M. D., was born March 18, 1846, at Frenchton, W. Va., then Va., son of Adam P. Rusmisell and Ann Eagle. Adam P. was a son of Adam, who was the son of Adam, who was the son of Adam, an emigrant from Germany, at the age of 18, to serve in defense of the colonies, in Washington's regiment. At the close of the Revolutionary War, this Adam married a Miss Shumaker, the daughter of a Mrs. Shumaker, who came from Germany near three hundred years ago, and brought with her a noodle box, now in the possession of the subject of this sketch. The box was used to carry the concentrated dough from which noodle soup was made. In 1862, he entered Company E, 4th West Virginia Cavalry, and served therein until the regiment was discharged. He returned home and became a student at the French Creek Academy. He then took up the study of medicine at Ann Arbor University, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1876. He has practiced medicine in Barbour and Upshur Counties ever since. He lived at Burnersville, Barbour County, 16 years and has lived at Buckhannon 15 years. On the 18th day of May, 1876, he married Margaret Virginia Hinkle, the daughter of Job Hinkle and Margaret Hadden Jackson (the granddaughter of Jonas Hinkle and Catherine Cooper), whose children were: Mary E., Judson B., Cyrus, Foster, Minter J., John S., Margaret V., Job W., Prudence S., and Catherine R. Margaret Hadden Jackson, was a daughter of Edward H. Jackson and Rebecca Love, the granddaughter of John Jackson and a Miss Hadden, the daughter of David Hadden, and the great granddaughter of John Jackson, who was the son of John Jackson and Elizabeth Cummins, English immigrants to America. The subject of this sketch has succeeded in the practice of medicine and has for his reward a sufficiency of earthly goods to take care of him and his. His children are both daughters and the names are: Annie Maud, student at Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md., and Carrie Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Upshur County, WV (Page 7) FULL-NAME: Samuel C. Rusmisell AGE-AT-DEATH: 69y-7m DEATH-DATE: October 18, 1915 MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Physician CAUSE-OF-DEATH: ----- INFORMANT: J. A. Rusmisell, Physician (wife of Samuel C. Rusmisell) From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #4384 FULL-NAME: Margaret Virginia Rusmisell BIRTH-DATE: March 29, 1848 BIRTH-PLACE: Upshur Co. DEATH-DATE: March 3, 1938 (at age 89y-11m-4d) DEATH-PLACE: (residence) S. Florida St., Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: Job Hinkle (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Margaret Jackson (born in W.Va). CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Apoplexy INFORMANT: Miss Carrie Rusmisell (of Buckhannon, W.Va.) BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------