Odell VanHooser

Odell married Essie Lou Cruce Feb 1936. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Fannie Elizabeth Hankins 5 Sep 1910. Fannie (daughter of Benjamin Hardy Hankins and Cerilda Ann Simms) was born 15 Jan 1879, Shop Springs, Wilson County, Tennessee; died 3 Aug 1969, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky; was buried , Iuka Baptist Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The following article on Isaac M. VanHooser is in the CALDWELL COUNTY KENTUCKY HISTORY BOOK, page 384. ISAAC M. VANHOOSER Isaac M. VanHooser was born about 1832 in Warren County, Tennessee, the son of Sampson S. VanHooser and Mary (Polly) Webb. In May, 1855, he married Susan Elizabeth Trammell, who was born on May 10, 1836, also in Warren County. She died on November 16, 1916, and was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Iuka, Livingston County, Kentucky. They had ten children: James J., who was born in 1857 and married Eveline Andrews; Mary Manerve, who was born in 1858 and married William J. Parrish; Josephine, who was born in 1859 and married William H. Falick; Samuel S., who was born in 1861 and married P. E. Prowell; John Morgan, who was born May 11, 1863, and married Fannie E. Hankins; William J., who was born in 1867 and died in Kentucky in May, 1880; Thomas S. who was born in 1870 and lived in Kentucky in 1880; Nancy E., who was born in 1872 and, married John Nathaniel Little; Isaac E., who was born in 1875 and married Dorothy I. Byrd; Alice M. who was born in 1877 and married Elmer Mangram. Isaac M. and John VanHooser, brothers, were both captured at the Battle of Hillsboro, Tennessee, on June 28, 1863. They were transferred to three different prisons and were finally paroled at Point Lookout, Maryland. They were then transferred to City Point, Virginia, on March 16, 1864, for exchange. Exchanged on February 10, 1865, they were in Company E, 16th Tennessee infantry. Listed on the Kentucky Mortality Schedule for 1880, page 145, was Isaac M. VanHooser, male, age 47, born in Tennessee, father and mother born in Tennessee, occupation farmer. He died and was buried in Caldwell County, Kentucky in May, 1880. Source: Family and Census Record. Submitted by: Estell VanHooser BinkIey

Isaac married Susan Elizabeth Tramel 12 Jul 1855, DeKalb County, Tennessee. Susan (daughter of Sampson Franklin Tramel and Manerva Jones) was born 10 May 1836, Warren County, Tennessee; died 16 Nov 1916, Iuka, Livingston County, Kentucky; was buried , Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Iuka, Livingston County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

Benjamin married Cerilda Ann Simms 27 May 1875. Cerilda was born 24 Mar 1851; died 15 Jul 1918, Shop Springs, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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The following article on Sampson S. VanHooser is in the CALDWELL COUNTY KENTUCKY HISTORY BOOK, page 386.

SAMPSON VANHOOSER
Sampson Samuel Van Hooser was born on February 4, 1805, in Virginia. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca--Isaac born in 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and Rebecca born about 1761 in Virginia. By 1826 Sampson S. was living in Warren County, Tennessee. He married Mary (Polly) Webb, who was born in 1812 in Warren County, Tennessee. They were the parents of eleven children: James Webb, who was born October 18, 1827, and married Melissa A. Cantrell; Isaac M., who was born about 1832; Didama, who was born February 10, 1834, and married Daniel Trammell; Elizabeth, who was born in 1836, and married Henry R. Stembridge; John, who was born November 21, 1837, and married Melvina Williams; Huston, who was born in 1840 and died January 5, 1863, in the Civil War; Andrew Jackson, who was born March 1, 1842, and married Martha Ann Riley; Nancy C., who was born in 1844 and married Andrew J. Eskew; Thomas Jefferson, who was born in 1846 and married A. E. Pippin; Sampson G., who was born in 1848 and married Marie W. Dodds; Robert W., who was born August 22, 1850 and married Margaret Jane Travis. Mary (Polly) died before 1855. All the children except James Webb, John and Huston lived in Caldwell and Crittenden Counties of Kentucky after the Civil War.
The 1860 Census of Warren County, Tennessee, listed Sampson S. VanHooser, age 55, farmer; Elizabeth Trammell, age 31, wife. They had one daughter, born in 1856. Elizabeth died before Sampson came to Kentucky in the late 1860's. The 1880 Census of Caldwell County, Kentucky, listed Sampson S. VanHooser, age 74, farmer; Rebecca Sarah Morphett, age 52, wife; Sarah Barbara, age 9, daughter. Sampson S. died in 1889 and was buried in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Rebecca Sarah died July 3, 1895. Sarah Barbara married A. S. Lucas, who preceded her in death. At the time of her death in 1957, she was living in Fredonia, Kentucky, with Billy Sherrill, a relative. She and her husband were buried in Livingston Cemetery in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Source: Family and Census Record.
Submitted by: Geneva Van Hooser Smith

Sampson married Mary Webb Abt 1827, Warren County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of James Webb and Didama Webb) was born 1812, Warren County, Tennessee; died 1852, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

Sampson — Manerva Jones. Manerva was born Abt 1818, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]