Family Group Sheet
NameSamuel J. Slusher, 1C5R
Birth1 Dec 1836, Hendricks Co., Indiana
Death19 Mar 1878, Stillwell, Jackson Co., Kansas
FatherStephen Slusher (~1800-1865)
MotherCharlotte Hylton (1804-1894)
Marriage19 Aug 1873, Jackson Co., Kansas
SpouseSusan Levina Van Huss
Birth18 Jan 1851
Death25 Oct 1885, Stillwell, Jackson Co., Kansas
FatherV. W. Van Huss
MotherLevina [Van Huss]
Notes for Samuel J. Slusher
Although Samuel was born in Indiana, he lived in Floyd Co., Virginia from about age 9 until he entered the Confederate army in 1862.
Samuel J. Slusher was a Lt. in Co. D of the 54th Virginia Infantry; his older brother Henry was the Captain of the company. After Samuel was mustered out of the army in 1865, he moved to Kansas and married there.
His middle name was probably Johnson, since a nephew was named Samuel Johnson Slusher, but no known record lists his middle name.
Two letters from Samuel Slusher, one to his first cousin Jacob S. Harmon informing him of Jacob’s son Eli’s death, and one to Barbara E. (Huff) Hylton, wife of his first cousin Lorenzo D. Hylton, informing her of Lorenzo’s death, are included in the Huff-Hylton papers collection at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
See this web site for an overview of the collection:
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/huffhylton.htm
(Samuel’s father Stephen Slusher, Jacob Harmon’s mother Elizabeth Slusher, and Lorenzo Hylton’s mother Mary Ann Slusher were all siblings.)
I have included a transcription of the letter from Samuel to Jacob S. Harmon in the notes for Eli W. Harmon.
Samuel J. Slusher was a Lt. in Co. D of the 54th Virginia Infantry; his older brother Henry was the Captain of the company. After Samuel was mustered out of the army in 1865, he moved to Kansas and married there.
His middle name was probably Johnson, since a nephew was named Samuel Johnson Slusher, but no known record lists his middle name.
Two letters from Samuel Slusher, one to his first cousin Jacob S. Harmon informing him of Jacob’s son Eli’s death, and one to Barbara E. (Huff) Hylton, wife of his first cousin Lorenzo D. Hylton, informing her of Lorenzo’s death, are included in the Huff-Hylton papers collection at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
See this web site for an overview of the collection:
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/huffhylton.htm
(Samuel’s father Stephen Slusher, Jacob Harmon’s mother Elizabeth Slusher, and Lorenzo Hylton’s mother Mary Ann Slusher were all siblings.)
I have included a transcription of the letter from Samuel to Jacob S. Harmon in the notes for Eli W. Harmon.
