Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Samuel DENNEY

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Samuel Denney, a native of Chester County, Pa., where he was carefully reared in the family of Samuel Lewis, of Sadsbury township. He was a natural mechanic, and upon attaining his majority located near Christiana, Lancaster Co., where he established a cabinet-shop and manufactured various useful articles for farming and domestic use. He died at that place in 1868, aged seventy-eight years. His wife was Edith, daughter of John and Lydia Dubree, of Sadsbury township, Lancaster Co., by whom he had a family of thirteen children, viz.: Mifflin P. (deceased), a well-known mechanic and designer of machinery in this country; Lydia L., wife of Ephraim Romans, of Illinois; Sarah, who married Sylvester Williams, of Sadsbury; Samuel L.; Hannah, who married David Randolph, of Leacock township; Dewitt C., a machinist of ability in Philadelphia; Margaret A.; William, a railroad engineer, killed in the performance of duty on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad; Joanna, married Ambrose Powell, of Sadsbury; Rachel, who became the wife of David Bear, of Lancaster County; John Q., in the iron business, Harrisburg and York, Pa.; Susan, who married, first, Richard Marshall, and is now the widow of William Miller; and Washington, a machinist, of Harrisburg.

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