HUEY
FAMILY.—The first of the Huey family to locate in this county was
Francis, a native of Fayette County, who located on a tract of land in
what is now Jackson Township in 1797. He afterward went back and
married Miss [Mary] Carnahan, of Fayette County, and they lived on this
tract of land until their deaths. His wife died in 1825, and he in
1842. Their family consisted of William Robert, James, Francis, John,
Samuel, George, David, Elizabeth, Mary [wife of James Bestwick],
Samuel, David and John.
Samuel Huey was born on the homestead
in Jackson Township in 1815, and attended the log school-house of that
period. He learned the stone-mason trade, which he followed for a
number of years, and after the death of his father he and his sister,
Elizabeth, lived on the homestead for many years, and after her death
he, being unmarried, made his home with his brother David, who was born
on the homestead in 1828. He also attended the log school-houses, and
about 1848 purchased his present farm. In 1848 he married Mary Davy, a
native of England. She died in 1865, leaving four children: Leander, in
Cool Spring Township, married Mary Bestwick, of Cool Spring Township,
and has two children, Jennie and Hay; William, on the old homestead,
married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Londe, of Cool Spring Township, and
has one child, Maud; Jennie, who died March 10, 1880; Walter, of Cool
Spring Township, married Emma, daughter of William Fowler, of Sandy
Lake Township, and has two children, Mamie and William. The second wife
of David was Mary Rodenbaugh, who died March 28, 1882, leaving five
children: John, Laura May, Clarence Ellsworth, Louie, Samuel. His third
wife was Angeline Rodenbaugh, a sister of his second wife. By her he
has no children. The Hueys have always been connected with the
Democratic party, and are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1078
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