Samuel Allison MEANS
1761 - 1813 (52 years)-
Name Samuel Allison MEANS Born 1761 Rockingham Co, NC 
Gender Male Died 5 Mar 1813 Christian Co, KY Person ID I9837 Williams Genealogy Last Modified 5 May 2007
Father William MEANS, b. Abt 1750, Lancaster Co, PA , d. 1825, Christian Co, KY (Age ~ 75 years) Mother Mary Ann ALLISON, b. Abt 1752, Orange Co, NC , d. 1847, Christian Co, KY (Age ~ 95 years) Family ID F12772 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Ann BRUNK, b. Abt 1779, VA , d. Between 1856 and 1869, TX (Age ~ 77 years) Married 17 Sep 1797 Hardin Co, KY Children 1. William Brunston MEANS, b. 1 Feb 1800, Christian Co, KY , d. 20 Jan 1885, Clinton, Henry Co, MO (Age 84 years)2. Elijah S. MEANS, b. Abt 1803, Christian Co, KY 3. Robert K. MEANS, b. 5 Jul 1806, Christian Co, KY 4. Young J. MEANS, b. 19 Nov 1809, Christian Co, KY , d. 1897, Hopkinsville, Christian Co, KY (Age 87 years)5. Samuel E. MEANS, b. 2 Sep 1812, Christian Co, KY , d. Sep 1888, Hopkinsville, Christian Co, KY (Age 76 years)Last Modified 25 May 2007 Family ID F12792 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1761 - Rockingham Co, NC 
Married - 17 Sep 1797 - Hardin Co, KY 
Died - 5 Mar 1813 - Christian Co, KY = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Emigrated to Kentucky with his father. Was active in the early development of Christian Co. Ky. As a surveyor he helped lay off the town of Elizabeth, now Hopkinsville. Will dated 11 Feb. 1813, probated May 1813.
Samuel Means was a surveyor, and assisted inlaying of the original site of Elizabeth, afterward Hopkinsville, and was besides one of the earliest Justices of the Peace of the county. About 1806 he built a schoolhouse, the first in the precinct, in which his brother William afterward taught. The old Means school is memorial not only from the fact that some eminent men have taught in it, but also from the further fact that from its classic precincts many of its scholars have gone forth into the world to win fame. As teachers after William Means may be mentioned, among others Joseph Bozarth, Otho Graves, Addison Stevenson, Thomas Smith (who afterward became a distinguished Unitarian minister), and John Mimms. Among the scholars have been such men as Nehemiah Cravens, Judge Walter Scates, of Illinois, Gustavus A. Henry (the 'eagle orator" of Tennessee), Patrick Henry, A. Stephenson, Judge W. W. McKenzie, Y. J. Means and Gano Henry.
(Perin, William Henry; Counties of Christian and Trigg KY. Historical and biographical; F. A. Batty Publishers 1884)
- Emigrated to Kentucky with his father. Was active in the early development of Christian Co. Ky. As a surveyor he helped lay off the town of Elizabeth, now Hopkinsville. Will dated 11 Feb. 1813, probated May 1813.