Bios: Rev. Lewis Sammons, 1815 - ?: Aleppo Twp, Greene County

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History of Greene County, Pennsylvania, By Samuel P. Bates, Chicago, 1888

Pg. 569
REV. LEWIS SAMMONS, deceased, a minister of the Baptist Church, was born
January 22, 1815, and was a son of John and Mary (JONES) SAMMONS.  His
parents were of Welsh and Irish descent.  His father was a ship captain,
and in early life ran on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.  After leaving
the river he followed the carpenter trade and auctioneering.  Rev. Mr.
Sammons was an only child.  He was born in Monongahela Township, this
county, but was reared in Fayette County, Penn.  He received his
education in the common schools, and early in life learned the cooper's
trade, at which he worked until 1836.  It was in that year he accepted
his first charge as a minister, and he engaged in ministerial work
during the remainder of his life.  He was united in marriage, November
18, 1841, with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Susannah (GANS)
RUMBLE, who were of Germany ancestry.  To Mr. and Mrs. Sammons were born
six children, viz:  Lebbeus, who is a farmer; Mary, wife of Dr. PARRY;
Rossell, a prominent farmer; James J., a surveyor and teacher, who has
taught for many terms in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Nebraska;
J. L., a physician of West Virginia, and Sarah E., a teacher of music.
Mrs. Sammons is still living, and is a member of the Baptist Church.
Rev. Sammons was the minister in charge at Enon Baptist Church in 1851,
and was ordained in 1853.  He came to Greene County in 1857, settling in
Aleppo Township nine years later.  He was ever an active temperance
worker and Republican.  He was successful in all his business pursuits,
owning at the time of his death a well-improved farm where his family
reside in Aleppo Township.  The family are Republicans, and highly
educated, four of them having taught ten terms of school.

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