Walter Frances Sample was the son of Rev. Thomas Dudley Sample and Frances Sarah (Cooper) Sample. He was born in Lyons, Indiana. He was the youngest of 10 children.
He married Emily Ann Hanks on Aug 30, 1900 in Greenbrier, Bollinger, Missouri. They met when Walter worked for Emily's father who owned a lumber company. They traveled with her father's company for a few years and later settled in rural Poplar Bluff, MO. Here he managed his family farm and raised his family
John Thomas Sample (1900 - 1942),
Florence Fannie Sample Anderson (1903 - 2006),
Ross R Sample(1905 - 1967),
Myrtle Bertha Sample Brown(1908 - 1996),
Theodore Fred Sample(1913 - 1964),
Delbert Glenn Sample(1920 - 1983).
His brother Eugene Sample and his family lived on an adjoining farm.
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor..the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder how you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
He married Emily Ann Hanks on Aug 30, 1900 in Greenbrier, Bollinger, Missouri. They met when Walter worked for Emily's father who owned a lumber company. They traveled with her father's company for a few years and later settled in rural Poplar Bluff, MO. Here he managed his family farm and raised his family
John Thomas Sample (1900 - 1942),
Florence Fannie Sample Anderson (1903 - 2006),
Ross R Sample(1905 - 1967),
Myrtle Bertha Sample Brown(1908 - 1996),
Theodore Fred Sample(1913 - 1964),
Delbert Glenn Sample(1920 - 1983).
His brother Eugene Sample and his family lived on an adjoining farm.
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor..the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder how you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Walter Frances Sample was the son of Rev. Thomas Dudley Sample and Frances Sarah (Cooper) Sample. He was born in Lyons, Indiana. He was the youngest of 10 children.
He married Emily Ann Hanks on Aug 30, 1900 in Greenbrier, Bollinger, Missouri. They met when Walter worked for Emily's father who owned a lumber company. They traveled with her father's company for a few years and later settled in rural Poplar Bluff, MO. Here he managed his family farm and raised his family
John Thomas Sample (1900 - 1942),
Florence Fannie Sample Anderson (1903 - 2006),
Ross R Sample(1905 - 1967),
Myrtle Bertha Sample Brown(1908 - 1996),
Theodore Fred Sample(1913 - 1964),
Delbert Glenn Sample(1920 - 1983).
His brother Eugene Sample and his family lived on an adjoining farm.
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor..the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder how you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
He married Emily Ann Hanks on Aug 30, 1900 in Greenbrier, Bollinger, Missouri. They met when Walter worked for Emily's father who owned a lumber company. They traveled with her father's company for a few years and later settled in rural Poplar Bluff, MO. Here he managed his family farm and raised his family
John Thomas Sample (1900 - 1942),
Florence Fannie Sample Anderson (1903 - 2006),
Ross R Sample(1905 - 1967),
Myrtle Bertha Sample Brown(1908 - 1996),
Theodore Fred Sample(1913 - 1964),
Delbert Glenn Sample(1920 - 1983).
His brother Eugene Sample and his family lived on an adjoining farm.
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor..the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder how you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
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