Son of Daniel Sammis and Maria Ketcham, husband of Frances Sarah "Fannie" Webber, whom he married about 1840, and from whom he was later divorced in July 1852 in New York City, and father of Nathaniel Webber, John Hanna K. (married Mary L. Trowbridge), David Sturges Sprague, Frances Maria (married Edward Nathaniel Talbott), and Jennie Sammis (married Charles Parson Walker).
Husband of Jeannie Olivia Berry Webber, whom he married about 1856 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Catherine Laura (married Edward Price Chamberlin), Oliver Ketcham, Daniel A., Cordelia (married George C. Reade), Anna Christina M. (married Lewis), Whitefield (married Sarah Barter Ford), and Raphael Sammis (married Marian Maffitt, married Hylleborg Karen Lilli Olsen).
In 1870, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 54, a physician, was living in Huntington, NY, with his wife, Jennie O.B. Sammis, aged 34, and children, Catharine Sammis, aged 13, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 12, Daniel Sammis, aged 6, Cordelia Sammis, aged 4, and Anna C.M. Sammis, aged 2, all in school.
In 1880, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 64, was living in Deer Park, Babylon, NY, with his wife, Jane O.B. Sammis, aged 46, and children, Daniel Sammis, aged 16, Cordelia Sammis, aged 14, Christina Sammis, aged 12, Whitfield Sammis, aged 7, and Raphael Sammis, aged 4. He was shown to be a Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Long Island, was a passenger on the Narrangansett on the night of the Sound disaster. His portfolio, hat, and some letters addressed to the Rev. Mr. Everet, of Jersey City, were picked up near the wrecked steamer two days after the disaster. Nothing has been heard of the Doctor since he went on board of the steamer, and his brother, D.S.S. Sammie, of Fire Island, would be greatly obliged if persons having information of the whereabouts of Dr. Sammis would communicate with him.
His body was found on June 27, 1880 on the shore at Great Neck in the town of Waterford, Connecticut, and after an inquest failed to identify the body, it was buried there on the 29th, and was later identified by the family to be Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, one of the victims of the Narrangansett disaster.
Obituary - June 11, 1880, L.I. Sound, (in Narrangansett disaster), Dr. Oliver K. Sammis, 67 years.
July 13, 1880 - The headless body which was found at Great Neck, on June 27, and which was buried without being identified, has since been exhumed and identified as Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, brother of D.S.S. Sammis, of Fire Island. The deceased was a passenger on the ill-fated Narrangansett."
(Note: Originally buried in the Eastneck Cemetery near where his body was discovered at Great Neck, Waterford, Connecticut, and was failed to be identified. His body was later disinterred and removed after it was identified by family, his brother David S.S. Sammis, and buried on Long Island. According to Evergreens Cemetery, he is not interred there with his wife and children)
(Long Island Surnames; 1870, 1880 US Federal Census; The corrector., July 03, 1880, Page 2; The New York Times, June 25, 1880; The New York Times, July 12, 1880, page 1; Deaths Taken From the Republican Watchman, 1880, page 96; Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (Buffalo, New York), 12 Jul 1880, Monday, Page 1; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 13 Jul 1880, Tuesday, Page 3; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 27 Sep 1915, Monday, Page 18)
Husband of Jeannie Olivia Berry Webber, whom he married about 1856 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Catherine Laura (married Edward Price Chamberlin), Oliver Ketcham, Daniel A., Cordelia (married George C. Reade), Anna Christina M. (married Lewis), Whitefield (married Sarah Barter Ford), and Raphael Sammis (married Marian Maffitt, married Hylleborg Karen Lilli Olsen).
In 1870, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 54, a physician, was living in Huntington, NY, with his wife, Jennie O.B. Sammis, aged 34, and children, Catharine Sammis, aged 13, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 12, Daniel Sammis, aged 6, Cordelia Sammis, aged 4, and Anna C.M. Sammis, aged 2, all in school.
In 1880, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 64, was living in Deer Park, Babylon, NY, with his wife, Jane O.B. Sammis, aged 46, and children, Daniel Sammis, aged 16, Cordelia Sammis, aged 14, Christina Sammis, aged 12, Whitfield Sammis, aged 7, and Raphael Sammis, aged 4. He was shown to be a Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Long Island, was a passenger on the Narrangansett on the night of the Sound disaster. His portfolio, hat, and some letters addressed to the Rev. Mr. Everet, of Jersey City, were picked up near the wrecked steamer two days after the disaster. Nothing has been heard of the Doctor since he went on board of the steamer, and his brother, D.S.S. Sammie, of Fire Island, would be greatly obliged if persons having information of the whereabouts of Dr. Sammis would communicate with him.
His body was found on June 27, 1880 on the shore at Great Neck in the town of Waterford, Connecticut, and after an inquest failed to identify the body, it was buried there on the 29th, and was later identified by the family to be Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, one of the victims of the Narrangansett disaster.
Obituary - June 11, 1880, L.I. Sound, (in Narrangansett disaster), Dr. Oliver K. Sammis, 67 years.
July 13, 1880 - The headless body which was found at Great Neck, on June 27, and which was buried without being identified, has since been exhumed and identified as Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, brother of D.S.S. Sammis, of Fire Island. The deceased was a passenger on the ill-fated Narrangansett."
(Note: Originally buried in the Eastneck Cemetery near where his body was discovered at Great Neck, Waterford, Connecticut, and was failed to be identified. His body was later disinterred and removed after it was identified by family, his brother David S.S. Sammis, and buried on Long Island. According to Evergreens Cemetery, he is not interred there with his wife and children)
(Long Island Surnames; 1870, 1880 US Federal Census; The corrector., July 03, 1880, Page 2; The New York Times, June 25, 1880; The New York Times, July 12, 1880, page 1; Deaths Taken From the Republican Watchman, 1880, page 96; Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (Buffalo, New York), 12 Jul 1880, Monday, Page 1; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 13 Jul 1880, Tuesday, Page 3; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 27 Sep 1915, Monday, Page 18)
Son of Daniel Sammis and Maria Ketcham, husband of Frances Sarah "Fannie" Webber, whom he married about 1840, and from whom he was later divorced in July 1852 in New York City, and father of Nathaniel Webber, John Hanna K. (married Mary L. Trowbridge), David Sturges Sprague, Frances Maria (married Edward Nathaniel Talbott), and Jennie Sammis (married Charles Parson Walker).
Husband of Jeannie Olivia Berry Webber, whom he married about 1856 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Catherine Laura (married Edward Price Chamberlin), Oliver Ketcham, Daniel A., Cordelia (married George C. Reade), Anna Christina M. (married Lewis), Whitefield (married Sarah Barter Ford), and Raphael Sammis (married Marian Maffitt, married Hylleborg Karen Lilli Olsen).
In 1870, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 54, a physician, was living in Huntington, NY, with his wife, Jennie O.B. Sammis, aged 34, and children, Catharine Sammis, aged 13, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 12, Daniel Sammis, aged 6, Cordelia Sammis, aged 4, and Anna C.M. Sammis, aged 2, all in school.
In 1880, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 64, was living in Deer Park, Babylon, NY, with his wife, Jane O.B. Sammis, aged 46, and children, Daniel Sammis, aged 16, Cordelia Sammis, aged 14, Christina Sammis, aged 12, Whitfield Sammis, aged 7, and Raphael Sammis, aged 4. He was shown to be a Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Long Island, was a passenger on the Narrangansett on the night of the Sound disaster. His portfolio, hat, and some letters addressed to the Rev. Mr. Everet, of Jersey City, were picked up near the wrecked steamer two days after the disaster. Nothing has been heard of the Doctor since he went on board of the steamer, and his brother, D.S.S. Sammie, of Fire Island, would be greatly obliged if persons having information of the whereabouts of Dr. Sammis would communicate with him.
His body was found on June 27, 1880 on the shore at Great Neck in the town of Waterford, Connecticut, and after an inquest failed to identify the body, it was buried there on the 29th, and was later identified by the family to be Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, one of the victims of the Narrangansett disaster.
Obituary - June 11, 1880, L.I. Sound, (in Narrangansett disaster), Dr. Oliver K. Sammis, 67 years.
July 13, 1880 - The headless body which was found at Great Neck, on June 27, and which was buried without being identified, has since been exhumed and identified as Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, brother of D.S.S. Sammis, of Fire Island. The deceased was a passenger on the ill-fated Narrangansett."
(Note: Originally buried in the Eastneck Cemetery near where his body was discovered at Great Neck, Waterford, Connecticut, and was failed to be identified. His body was later disinterred and removed after it was identified by family, his brother David S.S. Sammis, and buried on Long Island. According to Evergreens Cemetery, he is not interred there with his wife and children)
(Long Island Surnames; 1870, 1880 US Federal Census; The corrector., July 03, 1880, Page 2; The New York Times, June 25, 1880; The New York Times, July 12, 1880, page 1; Deaths Taken From the Republican Watchman, 1880, page 96; Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (Buffalo, New York), 12 Jul 1880, Monday, Page 1; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 13 Jul 1880, Tuesday, Page 3; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 27 Sep 1915, Monday, Page 18)
Husband of Jeannie Olivia Berry Webber, whom he married about 1856 in Brooklyn, NY, and father of Catherine Laura (married Edward Price Chamberlin), Oliver Ketcham, Daniel A., Cordelia (married George C. Reade), Anna Christina M. (married Lewis), Whitefield (married Sarah Barter Ford), and Raphael Sammis (married Marian Maffitt, married Hylleborg Karen Lilli Olsen).
In 1870, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 54, a physician, was living in Huntington, NY, with his wife, Jennie O.B. Sammis, aged 34, and children, Catharine Sammis, aged 13, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 12, Daniel Sammis, aged 6, Cordelia Sammis, aged 4, and Anna C.M. Sammis, aged 2, all in school.
In 1880, Oliver K. Sammis, aged 64, was living in Deer Park, Babylon, NY, with his wife, Jane O.B. Sammis, aged 46, and children, Daniel Sammis, aged 16, Cordelia Sammis, aged 14, Christina Sammis, aged 12, Whitfield Sammis, aged 7, and Raphael Sammis, aged 4. He was shown to be a Doctor of Medicine.
Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Long Island, was a passenger on the Narrangansett on the night of the Sound disaster. His portfolio, hat, and some letters addressed to the Rev. Mr. Everet, of Jersey City, were picked up near the wrecked steamer two days after the disaster. Nothing has been heard of the Doctor since he went on board of the steamer, and his brother, D.S.S. Sammie, of Fire Island, would be greatly obliged if persons having information of the whereabouts of Dr. Sammis would communicate with him.
His body was found on June 27, 1880 on the shore at Great Neck in the town of Waterford, Connecticut, and after an inquest failed to identify the body, it was buried there on the 29th, and was later identified by the family to be Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, one of the victims of the Narrangansett disaster.
Obituary - June 11, 1880, L.I. Sound, (in Narrangansett disaster), Dr. Oliver K. Sammis, 67 years.
July 13, 1880 - The headless body which was found at Great Neck, on June 27, and which was buried without being identified, has since been exhumed and identified as Dr. O.K. Sammis, of Deer Park, brother of D.S.S. Sammis, of Fire Island. The deceased was a passenger on the ill-fated Narrangansett."
(Note: Originally buried in the Eastneck Cemetery near where his body was discovered at Great Neck, Waterford, Connecticut, and was failed to be identified. His body was later disinterred and removed after it was identified by family, his brother David S.S. Sammis, and buried on Long Island. According to Evergreens Cemetery, he is not interred there with his wife and children)
(Long Island Surnames; 1870, 1880 US Federal Census; The corrector., July 03, 1880, Page 2; The New York Times, June 25, 1880; The New York Times, July 12, 1880, page 1; Deaths Taken From the Republican Watchman, 1880, page 96; Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (Buffalo, New York), 12 Jul 1880, Monday, Page 1; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 13 Jul 1880, Tuesday, Page 3; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 27 Sep 1915, Monday, Page 18)
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Gravesite unknown, but presumed to be reinterred at Babylon Rural Cemetery by brother David SS Sammis
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Nathaniel Webber Sammis
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John Hanna Sammis
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David Sturges Sprague Sammis
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Fannie M Sammis Talbott
1851–1925
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Catherine Laura "Kate" Sammis Chamberlin
1857–1942
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Oliver Ketcham Sammis
1858–1889
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