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Samuel Jackson Amacker

Male 1835 - 1862  (27 years)


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  • Name Samuel Jackson Amacker 
    Born 29 May 1835  St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 9789E0B64B8B7A47AA4237D7532BAE57CAD0 
    Died 3 Jun 1862  Military Prison Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Nathaniel Amacker Record
      Mrs. J.P. Morris, Jr. of Kentwood, Louisiana, copied this record from a paper found with the 1859 Bible of Abby Kent Amacker, copied elsewhere in the possession of Mrs. Maud Amacker Arnett of Kentwood. She gives these notes regarding them.
      "Among the colonists from Switzerland who settled Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1735 were the ancestors of the groups of Amackers of the deep South. First to Southwest Mississippi with his family in 1809 came John Jacob Amacker. He came across the state line into Louisiana and built a home in the then St. Helena Parish on the east bank of Beaver Creek in 1813. The children of the family were seven boys and two girls. Four sons and one daughter married and lived near the original homestead. The seventh child, James Albert Amacker married Lydia Tate and settled in Poplarville, Mississippi. The sixth child, Nathaniel Amacker settled near the old family home. His family records were copied from his Bible by Edgar A. Bassett of Los Angeles, California. He was the husband of Nathaniel Amacker's granddaughter, Eva Kent Bassett."
      The records copied were on three sheets of paper, with his stamp on them, and this note on the back of the three folded sheets: "Family records, Nathaniel Amacker, born 1811, Father, John Amacker, Mother, Sarah Varnado Amacker."
      RECORD
      Nathaniel Amacker was born in Parish of St. Helena AD 1811
      Misolla Pierson was born in Parish of St. Helena Dec. 13, AD 1813
      Their children:
      Mithford Amacker was born in St. Helena Parish Aug. 22, 1832
      Cindarilla Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Nov. 9, 1833
      Samuel Jackson Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph May 29, 1835
      Richard Marshall Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Feb. 7, 1837
      Obediah Pierson Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Dec. 17, 1838
      Hesekiah Thompson Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Sept. 28, 1840
      William Leonard Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Aug. 9, 1843
      Sarah Elizabeth Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph June 13, 1845
      Lilah F. Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph Aug. 17, 1849
      Margaret Missouri Amacker was born in St. Helena Ph July 25, 1854
      MARRIAGES
      Abby Means Kent and Obediah P. Amacker were married Sept. 1, 1864
      James Fluker Kent and Delilah F. Amacker were married Feb. 22, 1866
      George Kent and Eliza Dean Amacker were married Feb. 14, 1867
      Nathaniel Amacker and Mosilla Pierson were married June 15, 1831
      R.M. Amacker and Martha Spiller were married Nov. 21, 1863
      DEATHS
      Nathaniel Amacker died Dec. 30, 1881
      Mosilla Pierson Amacker died July 25, 1871
      Mithford Amacker died Sept. 17, 1836
      Sarah Elizabeth Amacker died June 30, 1848
      Hezekiah Thompson Amacker killed at Battle of Shiloh Apr. 7, 1862
      Jackson Amacker died in Military Prison June 3rd, 1862
      William Leonard Amacker died in early manhood.
    Person ID I2345  4B William Bassett of Lynn, Massachusetts
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2012 

    Father Nathaniel Amacker,   b. 1811, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Dec 1881  (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Misolla Pierson,   b. 13 Dec 1813, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jul 1871  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 15 Jun 1831 
    Family ID F805  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart