Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameSamuel Howe HOLYOKE 
, M
, MBirth24 Jul 1824, Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
Death22 Jun 1902, Lyndon, Osage, KS
BurialLyndon Kansas Cemetery; Lyndon, Osage, KS53
FatherJacob HOLYOKE , M (1791-1853)
MotherLydia HOWE , F (1796-1875)
Spouses
1Hannah SHERFICK , F
, FBirth3 Dec 1831, Washington, Fayette, OH
Deathaft 1910
FatherBenjamin SHERFICK , M (1794-1870)
MotherSarah Catherine BLUE , F (1799-1852)
Marriage17 Oct 1850, , Washington, OH
ChildrenFrank , M (~1852-)
William Edwin , M (~1855-1935)
Millie E , F (~1856-<1860)
Clara Maria , F (~1859-1933)
Henry Julian , M (1862-)
Notes for Samuel Howe HOLYOKE
• Some records has his middle name spelled as How.
• Some records record his date of birth as “4 Jul 1824”
• Samuel H. HOLYOKE served in the Civil War with K Company, 57 Mass. Infantry, the same unit as his younger brother “Eugene” served.
• Description - dark complexion, blue eyes with dark hair, about 5 feet 8.9 inches tall.
• Enlisted as a Private in Company K, 57th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts at the age of 39; Absent (sick) from 20 June 1864 to 28 September 1864; Captured & POW on 25 March 1865, exchanged on 29 March 1865 and returned on 11 May 1865.; Mustered out on 30 July 1865 in Delaney House, Washington, DC.
• Lived in Valley Brook, Osage, KS in 1900.
• Was a member of the “Grand Army of the Republic” in Lyndon, Osage, KS
• The Holyoke family moved to the Diminished Reserve in 1867, there were Indian houses all along Salt Creek … they moved into one of the abandoned houses. In Charles Green’s book, The Annals of Lyndon, Samuel stated that his house had been “built for one of the Fox Chiefs….a large and commodious house, built of native lumber, near an excellent spring of water, and near which, some years before, had been an Indian town of 4 or 5 hundred Indians, in their bark wigwams……We moved here on December 3, 1867, and it has been our home ever since, the same old Indian house, only fixed over and added to.” In 1874, Samuel purchased 80 acres from Wells Bailey his neighbor
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• Some records record his date of birth as “4 Jul 1824”
• Samuel H. HOLYOKE served in the Civil War with K Company, 57 Mass. Infantry, the same unit as his younger brother “Eugene” served.
• Description - dark complexion, blue eyes with dark hair, about 5 feet 8.9 inches tall.
• Enlisted as a Private in Company K, 57th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts at the age of 39; Absent (sick) from 20 June 1864 to 28 September 1864; Captured & POW on 25 March 1865, exchanged on 29 March 1865 and returned on 11 May 1865.; Mustered out on 30 July 1865 in Delaney House, Washington, DC.
• Lived in Valley Brook, Osage, KS in 1900.
• Was a member of the “Grand Army of the Republic” in Lyndon, Osage, KS
• The Holyoke family moved to the Diminished Reserve in 1867, there were Indian houses all along Salt Creek … they moved into one of the abandoned houses. In Charles Green’s book, The Annals of Lyndon, Samuel stated that his house had been “built for one of the Fox Chiefs….a large and commodious house, built of native lumber, near an excellent spring of water, and near which, some years before, had been an Indian town of 4 or 5 hundred Indians, in their bark wigwams……We moved here on December 3, 1867, and it has been our home ever since, the same old Indian house, only fixed over and added to.” In 1874, Samuel purchased 80 acres from Wells Bailey his neighbor
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Notes for Hannah (Spouse 1)
• The widow of Samuel that served in the Civil War, she received a pension from the Civil War Pension, she filed in 1902 from Kansas.
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