Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 14 July 2004

• photos of Samuel S. French and Eliza (French) Lollar Tingle on the Lollar Family page
• Samuel Burrows (ca. 1805-1875) - Obituary, The Western Star 29 April 1875

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SAMUEL S. FRENCH, farmer, P. O. Lebanon; was born on the place where he resides, in 1829; he is a son of Samuel French, who was born in New Jersey, in 1788, and was reared in Pennsylvania; his mother, Nancy Sibbett, was also born in New Jersey. Mr. French came to Ohio in 1801, and was only 13 years old at the time; he worked for some years as a hand at odd jobs; he was married three times; first to Nancy Brandenburg, by whom he had two children – Anner A. and Eliza; his second wife was Nancy Sibbett, who bore him two children – Samuel S. and Joseph; by his third wife, Eliza Meeker, he had no children. He died in 1862, aged 73 years. Mr. French was a self-made man, as when he came to Ohio he was only a boy in years, and entirely destitute of means; by unremitting toil and industry, coupled with good management, he built up a good property, as at his death he left 226 acres of choice land. Our subject was married in 1853, to Sarah Burrows, who has borne him two children – Joseph B. and Mary E. He owns the “Old Home” farm, 133 acres, which is largely in cultivation and comfortably improved. Mrs. French was born in New Jersey, in 1829; her parents, Samuel and Amelia (Hunt) Burrows, were natives of New Jersey; they settled in Lebanon in 1831; he was a shoemaker by occupation, a trade he followed in Lebanon. To them were born four children – Sarah, Mary, Samuel S. and John M. He died in 1875; she in 1874. Both were members of the M. E. Church, to which they belonged for forty-five years.