Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

SAMUEL H. TANNER, Butler County, is a son of Alexander Branch Tanner and 
Catharine Hill, daughter of James D. Hill, an early settler of Butler 
County.  His father was a native of Virginia, and removed to Butler 
County many years ago and settled on a farm and married in 1843, and 
subsequently removed to Rochester, this county, where he and his wife 
still reside.  His grandfather was Branch Tanner.  Our subject was born 
in the county of Butler, May 19, 1844, and received a good common school 
education.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, First Kentucky State Guard, 
and served as a non-commissioned officer, and January 13, 1865, was 
mustered out of the service.  AFter the war he commenced farming in 
Fillmore Precinct, Logan County.  He subsequently purchased a fine farm 
of 150 acres in Rochester Precinct.  In 1882, he was elected sheriff for 
the county of Butler, and in 1884 was re-elected.  He was married 
February 8, 1866, to Eliza, second daughter of A. C. McReynolds, Esq., 
of London Precinct, Butler County, where she was born in 1843.  There 
were born to them seven children: Alice A. (deceased), Thomas J., 
Alexander Campbell, John Virgil, James Davis, Elizabeth Maud, Samuel 
Edward.  Mr. and Mrs. Tanner are members of the Protestant Methodist 
Church, and Mr. Tanner is a member of the Masonic fraternity, No. 477.  
Mr. Tanner's record, both as a private citizen and public officer, is 
first class.

Tanner Hill McReynolds
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VA Logan-KY

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