Samuel Elliott
Samuel Elliott, Retired Farmer, P. O. Anna.
Mr. Elliott was born in Licking County, Ohio, May 15, 1812, where his minority days were passed on a farm. He is a. son of Cornelius Elliott, who was born in Maryland in September, 1778. He came to Ohio some time prior to 1803, and located near Newark, Licking County, where he married Miss Elizabeth Evans, of the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott remained in Licking County until in October, 1835, when they, with twelve children, came to Shelby County, purchased and settled on 120 acres of land in section 6, Dinsmore Township, on which they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Elliott died July 20, 1839, aged forty-nine years. Mr. Elliott departed this life May 4, 1865. He served in the war of 1812. He reared a family of twelve children, viz., John, Samuel, Cornelius, Eliza, James, Joseph, William, Jane, Lorenzo, Margaret, Alexander, and Elizabeth, six of whom are yet alive, viz., Samuel, Joseph, Jane, Lorenzo, Alexander, and Elizabeth.
Samuel Elliott, subject of this sketch,came with his parents to Shelby County in October, 1835, and located near where Botkins has since been laid out. On the 14th of March, 1837, he married Miss Jane Dill, daughter of Richard C. and Hannah Dill. Miss Dill was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, December 11, 1815, and came to this county with her parents in October, 1832, as elsewhere mentioned. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott settled on a piece of land in section 31, Dinsmore Township, on which he made improvements and lived fifteen years, or until in 1852, when he sold his farm in section 31, purchased and moved on a farm in section 20, same township, remained on this farm until in October, 1880, when he sold his land, puchased and moved on a small farm in section 28, three-fourths of a mile north of Anna, on which they are now residing. They reared a family of eleven children, viz., Richard D., Joseph D., Elizabeth, Angeline and Catharina (twins), Amanda, Jane, James, Hannah, Samuel, and Minerva. Angeline died when at the age of eighteen years. Mr. Elliott served as justice of the peace for Dinsmore Township eighteen years; also filled the office of land appraiser one term, and constable one year.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883