Samuel Marquart
b. 17 April 1839, Perry County, Ohio, to Jonathan and Catherine (Bashore) Marquart
d. 22 May 1923, Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
m. 17 February 1861, Fontanelle, Adair County, Iowa
Susanna Emerson Miller
b. 7 August 1845, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, to George and Mary Jane (Histe) Miller
d. 23 November 1902, Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
Children with Susannah Miller:
- Ida A. (b. 16 August 1863) married George B. Baker
- Samuel Lorn (14 May 1867–18 July 1870)
- Oran Glen (b. 16 November 1869) married Edith Mae Segrist
- Emerson Lavern “Vern” (b. 5 September 1886) married Lelia Vencent August
Samuel immigrated to Marion Township, Allen County, Indiana, with his parents when he was four or five months old, in the fall of 1839. He moved to Marshall County, Indiana, in 1850 but soon afterward moved back to Allen County, Indiana. He joined the George Miller family in moving to Fontanelle, Somerset Township, Adair County, Iowa, in the summer of 1857.
In 1866, Samuel’s brother, Frederick and his son Daniel W. Marquart, joined Samuel in Fontanelle, where Daniel married Sam’s wife’s sister, Mary Etta Miller, on 18 March 1868.
In February 1898, Samuel, with his nephew Daniel W. Marquart, and ten other men, organized a party to go to the Klondike gold fields. They tried to get through to Dawson by way of White Horse Pass, but snows in the mountains proved too great an obstacle. They returned without reaching the gold fields.
Submitted by:
Virgil V. Marquart
Fort Wayne IN