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The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

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"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

".....Washington Co. Ind., where he grew up on a farm;...He enrolled at Browntown, Ind., the "8th day of June, 1862, as a private in Co. G. 54th Regt., Indiana Volunteers." After three months in this regiment, he enlisted in the 22nd Indiana Veteran Vol. Inf. He was wounded on May 14, 1864; participated in many battles; and was given an honorable discharge, 7-24-1865. The National Archives records describes him as follows: (1865): "Age 20, Height 5 feet, 8 inches; Complexion, light; Hair, light; Eyes, gray. . . ."
While in the service, Samuel H. had the difficult mission of taking the news of the death of Kinchen Kelley to his widow, Margaret Applegate Kelley, and her five children. This meeting later resulted in the marriage of Samuel H. and Margaret, about 1866. Mrs. Clarence L. Turmail, dt of Ellen Elizabeth Kelley, writes:

Margaret's parents were Philip Dailey and Ellen Applegate. Both of her parents were interred at Russell's Chapel, about eight miles from Crothersville, Indiana. The children of Margaret and Kinchen Kelley were: Kinchen Lee, Jr., Frank, Philip, Ellen, Elizabeth.

Samuel H. and Margaret (Kelley) Trueblood res. in Jackson Co., Ind. from 1866 to 1871, in the Bethany neighborhood, near Crothersville, where they farmed. Three sons were born to this marriage, and added to the five Kelley children constituted a fairly large family, even for those days. Hard times prevailed after the Civil War, for the North as the South. New lands were being opened for settlement farther west, and the lure this time was for a better way of life in an Eden where the virgin soil was said to be rich even beyond dreams. Thus, this family was one of the many who brought out the old covered wagon again and followed the sun, very much as so many other Truebloods had done sixty years before in the exodus from North Carolina.
There was the baby John, too, just as there was the baby Aseneth on a similar trip in 1815. The comparison stops there, however, as tragedy struck this family as it did many others. Death was never a stranger on these long migrations west, and in this case the mother, Margaret, was the one to be taken. The records say that she died in the fall of 1871, at Arcola, Illinois. Whether the Kelley children were on this trip is unknown. Samuel was left with at least three small children. What else could he do but send his wife's body back to Indiana to her people rather than bury her along the trail as many were forced to do. His father, Charles Grice, had gone to Missouri in 1867, so he knew that there wouldbe help for the children if he could get to his father's place in Nodaway County. This was 1871, and the railroad must have seemed a real blessing to him then, even though the expense of shipping his wife's body home must have worked a hardship on him and the children. Nevertheless, he sent her home for a family burial because he was that kind of man.
Samuel's parents cared for the three boys until Samuel m (2) on 1-16-1872, another widow, Harriet (Morehouse) Bratcher. Samuel and Harriet took the two older boys, while the grandparents kept and reared the baby, Johnny.
Samuel Hamilton moved from Nodaway County, Mo., to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1912, and lived there untill his death. He and Harriet began married life on a farm in Atchison township, later moving to Maryville, Mo. He was a guard at the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City for some time early in his life. He passed away January 7, 1925, at his home in the Argentine district of Kansas City; burial was in Maple Hill Cem. Harriet Ellen was very ill at the time; she recovered, however, and lived about nine more years before her death on 2-4-1934 at Clearmont, Mo. She was b in MArion, Marrow County, Ohio." pg 119, 120

The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from
"The Trueblood Family in America
by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

".... Samuel m (2) on 1-16-1872, another widow, Harriet (Morehouse) Bratcher. Samuel and Harriet took the two older boys, while the grandparents kept and reared the baby, Johnny." pg 120