Washington County ID Archives Obituaries.....Denney, Samuel R. 1922
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The News 5-12-1922
The News
Cambridge, Idaho
Friday, May 12, 1922
 
AGED PIONEER DIES
 
As a consequence of the exposure he sustained when he wandered away from home 
one cold day last December, Samuel R. Denney died at his home in Cambridge, 
Wednesday morning, May 10.  
 
Samuel R. Denney was born Jan. 13, 1850 in Galapois, Ohio and at the age of 
twenty-five years crossed the plains and settled in the Salubria Valley in 
September in 1875.
 
In 1880 he married Mary E. Colson who survives him.  Ten children were born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Denney, eight of whom survive him.  They are:  Mary M. Dryden, 
Meadows, Idaho, S. J. Denney, Goodrich, Ida., O. M. Denney, Tamarack, Ida., 
Anna B. Preston, Midvale, Idaho, G. N. Denney, Lucile, Ida., and A. J. Denney, 
C. A. Denney, and Eva L. Rippen of Cambridge.  He also leaves twenty-two 
grandchildren.
 
Mr. Denney was a good husband, a kind father, an upright citizen and held the 
distinction of conducting the first general store in the old town of Salubria.
 
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church on May 11, Rev. Hansen 
officiating and burial was in the Salubria cemetery.

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