SAMUEL HINDMAN. The ancestors of this well-known gentleman were born in a land of song and story, where wild legends were told the little ones as they sat by the fireside or wandered amid the romantic scenery of Wales. But sometimes even the legends were forgotten, and tales of a far-off land, whose wealth and grandeur surpassed their wildest dreams, were told the children. Eagerly the people listened for tidings of those daring men who had crossed the ocean, and proved "truth stranger than fiction." Many a bold Welshman then sought a home in the New World, and among their number sailed Samuel Hindman with his family. They landed safely in America, and located in the State of Maryland. Mr. Hindman was twice married, and three children were born to him, among whom a son, John, is named. John Hindman was born in 1769, near Port Deposit, in Maryland. He was there married to Sarah Patten and in 1796 came to Pennsylvania, the journey being made in a six-horse wagon, which carried all their personal possessions. They were accompanied by William Patten and his wife, the former of whom was a brother of Mrs. Hindman. They first made a halt in Finley township, Allegheny county, and thence moved to Union township, this county, where Mr. Hindman, in 1798, bought seventy-two acres of one Thomas Cannon and afterward eighty-four acres of Nathan Dailey, which became the home of his descendants. It was then in an uncultivated state, only twenty acres having been cleared, and many improvements were made by Mr. Hindman. In politics he was actively identified with the Whig party, and in religion he was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Mingo. He died on the farm in 1851, being followed in 1852 by his wife, who had borne him the following children: Mary (wife of Robert Campbell), William (married to Sarah Campbell, of Union township), Sarah (wife of John Storer, of Allegheny county), Robert (married to Hannah Pollock, also of Allegheny county), Martha (Mrs. William Morrow), John (deceased at the age of seventeen years), Eliza (wife of James Morgan), Jane (Mrs. Joseph S. Gaston) and Samuel. Samuel Hindman was born August 26, 1812, in Union township, Washington Co., Penn., and received his education at the subscription school on the Pollock farm. On May 9, 1836, he married Martha J., daughter of Joseph Hull, of Allegheny county, and they resided on the home place in Union township until 1864, when they came to their present home in Gastonville. Politically Mr. Hindman was a Whig and Republican, but is now voting with the Prohibition party, having always supported the temperance cause. In religion he has been an elder of the Mingo Presbyterian Church for thirty years. Mrs. Hindman died in September, 1889, leaving no children, but they had adopted and reared two little ones, one of whom, Virginia B., is married to Harry W. Millinger, of Finleyville.

Text taken from page 932 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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