Samuel J. married his second wife, Eliza S. Filmer, in New York city.

The evidence

• “In 1885 he went to live with his daughter, Mary A., at Evanston, 111., but on her death two years later he made his home at Janesville, Wis., till his decease, March 5, 1901. In May, 1853, Samuel J. married in New York city his second wife, Eliza S. Filmer, who was born in England in 1815 and came to this country alone.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 465 / book p. 953

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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