Hillsdale-Lenawee County MI Archives Obituaries.....PIXLEY, Sampson September 12, 1912 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Eldon Hills ehills@cass.net March 16, 2006, 11:19 am Hudson Post - 6 Dec. 1912 Sampson Pixley died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Will Saltgraber. He was 86 years old and one of the oldest settlers in the township. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Source: Waldron Recorder 6 Dec. 1912 Sampson Pixley was born in New York in 1826 and moved to Michigan in 1835. He married Mary Jane Thompson in 1855, She died in 1862. They had four children, Mrs. Lucinda Kelley, Lansing, Mrs. Alzina Helmick, Jackson, Mrs. Dell Kelley, Hudson One son died in infancy, Lily Saltzgiber of Prattville. Mr. Pixley was the last of his family of 19 children. His was the second family that came to this part of Michigan, He died at the home of his daughter's, Mrs. William Saltzgiber, aged 86. Source: Hudson Post 6 Dec. 1912 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/hillsdale/obits/p/pixley826gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb