Mother: Jane Williams
From the Tuscola County Advertiser:
SAMPY WELLS
One of Tuscola County's oldest citizens, Sampy Wells, 90, died Sunday at his home in Wells Township after a long period of failing health. Funeral services were held from the Bethel Stone Church Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock under the direction of the Huston Funeral Home, with Rev. C. S. Edgerton of Port Sanilac. Burial was made in East Dayton Cemetery.
Mr. Wells was born May 1, 1886 at Wahjamega, the youngest of 13 children of Joseph & Jane Wells. With such a large family, Mr. Wells used to say, there was a dearth of available names and he chose his own name. His parents were natives of New York state and first came to Michigan in 1856 to live at Saline. The trip from that town to Tuscola County was made by ox team over the Indian trails in 1871. The father was the first settler in the Wells area and the township was named after him.
The family lived most of the time in Wells, but were Wahjamega residents when Sampy was born.
May 15, 1890, Mr. Wells married Jane Green and except for 16 years when they operated a store at East Dayton they lived on the same Wells township farm in Section 31.
For 48 years Mr. Wells was a school officer of the Fourtowns School and the East Dayton school and was a member of the Bethel Stone Church, the Gleaners and the Wells-Dayton Farmers' Club.
His span of life included the old lumbering days and he has told of watching the log drives on Sucker Creek when boats were tied to the front porch of his home.
Mr. Wells is survived by four sons: Ernest and Orville of Caro, Lee of Detroit and Harry of Washington; 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren,
From the Tuscola County Advertiser:
SAMPY WELLS
One of Tuscola County's oldest citizens, Sampy Wells, 90, died Sunday at his home in Wells Township after a long period of failing health. Funeral services were held from the Bethel Stone Church Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock under the direction of the Huston Funeral Home, with Rev. C. S. Edgerton of Port Sanilac. Burial was made in East Dayton Cemetery.
Mr. Wells was born May 1, 1886 at Wahjamega, the youngest of 13 children of Joseph & Jane Wells. With such a large family, Mr. Wells used to say, there was a dearth of available names and he chose his own name. His parents were natives of New York state and first came to Michigan in 1856 to live at Saline. The trip from that town to Tuscola County was made by ox team over the Indian trails in 1871. The father was the first settler in the Wells area and the township was named after him.
The family lived most of the time in Wells, but were Wahjamega residents when Sampy was born.
May 15, 1890, Mr. Wells married Jane Green and except for 16 years when they operated a store at East Dayton they lived on the same Wells township farm in Section 31.
For 48 years Mr. Wells was a school officer of the Fourtowns School and the East Dayton school and was a member of the Bethel Stone Church, the Gleaners and the Wells-Dayton Farmers' Club.
His span of life included the old lumbering days and he has told of watching the log drives on Sucker Creek when boats were tied to the front porch of his home.
Mr. Wells is survived by four sons: Ernest and Orville of Caro, Lee of Detroit and Harry of Washington; 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren,
Mother: Jane Williams
From the Tuscola County Advertiser:
SAMPY WELLS
One of Tuscola County's oldest citizens, Sampy Wells, 90, died Sunday at his home in Wells Township after a long period of failing health. Funeral services were held from the Bethel Stone Church Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock under the direction of the Huston Funeral Home, with Rev. C. S. Edgerton of Port Sanilac. Burial was made in East Dayton Cemetery.
Mr. Wells was born May 1, 1886 at Wahjamega, the youngest of 13 children of Joseph & Jane Wells. With such a large family, Mr. Wells used to say, there was a dearth of available names and he chose his own name. His parents were natives of New York state and first came to Michigan in 1856 to live at Saline. The trip from that town to Tuscola County was made by ox team over the Indian trails in 1871. The father was the first settler in the Wells area and the township was named after him.
The family lived most of the time in Wells, but were Wahjamega residents when Sampy was born.
May 15, 1890, Mr. Wells married Jane Green and except for 16 years when they operated a store at East Dayton they lived on the same Wells township farm in Section 31.
For 48 years Mr. Wells was a school officer of the Fourtowns School and the East Dayton school and was a member of the Bethel Stone Church, the Gleaners and the Wells-Dayton Farmers' Club.
His span of life included the old lumbering days and he has told of watching the log drives on Sucker Creek when boats were tied to the front porch of his home.
Mr. Wells is survived by four sons: Ernest and Orville of Caro, Lee of Detroit and Harry of Washington; 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren,
From the Tuscola County Advertiser:
SAMPY WELLS
One of Tuscola County's oldest citizens, Sampy Wells, 90, died Sunday at his home in Wells Township after a long period of failing health. Funeral services were held from the Bethel Stone Church Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock under the direction of the Huston Funeral Home, with Rev. C. S. Edgerton of Port Sanilac. Burial was made in East Dayton Cemetery.
Mr. Wells was born May 1, 1886 at Wahjamega, the youngest of 13 children of Joseph & Jane Wells. With such a large family, Mr. Wells used to say, there was a dearth of available names and he chose his own name. His parents were natives of New York state and first came to Michigan in 1856 to live at Saline. The trip from that town to Tuscola County was made by ox team over the Indian trails in 1871. The father was the first settler in the Wells area and the township was named after him.
The family lived most of the time in Wells, but were Wahjamega residents when Sampy was born.
May 15, 1890, Mr. Wells married Jane Green and except for 16 years when they operated a store at East Dayton they lived on the same Wells township farm in Section 31.
For 48 years Mr. Wells was a school officer of the Fourtowns School and the East Dayton school and was a member of the Bethel Stone Church, the Gleaners and the Wells-Dayton Farmers' Club.
His span of life included the old lumbering days and he has told of watching the log drives on Sucker Creek when boats were tied to the front porch of his home.
Mr. Wells is survived by four sons: Ernest and Orville of Caro, Lee of Detroit and Harry of Washington; 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren,
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