Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

FIELD SAMPLE, Virginia House, Beardstown; was born near 
Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Ill., March 26, 1828, where he 
lived on a farm till 1879. At twenty-one years of age he 
began farming on his own account, which occupation he 
followed till 1879, when he rented his land and came to 
Beardstown. In addition to farming, he had followed brick-
making for eleven years. In 1879, he and his brother, F.M. 
Sample, bought the furniture and fixtures of the Virginia 
House, which they ran under the firm name of Sample Bros., 
till May, 1882, when F.M. retired, leaving Field sole 
proprietor. Mr. Sample was twice elected Coroner of Morgan 
County, Ill., and also served as Deputy Sheriff of that 
county. In 1857, in Morgan County, Ill., he married Mary, 
daughter of David Ribelin, a farmer of that county. They 
have had six children, four of whom are living. John 
Sample, the father of our subject, was born in Warren 
County, Ky., about 1797, and when fourteen years old, came 
to Bond County, Ill., with his parents, who settled there. 
He served in the war of 1812. In Bond County, Ill., about 
the year 1816, he married Sarah Prewitt, a native of 
Kentucky, and in 1824 he settled on a farm near 
Jacksonville, where he resided the remainder of his life; 
he died in 1869, aged seventy-two years. He served as 
County Commissioner of Morgan County for three years; he 
was a Democrat. Field is the seventh child of a family of 
nine sons and four daughters, of which six sons and two 
daughters are living.

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