Samuel Brosius

  General Notes:

Samuel Broscious, son of Jacob, was a native of the Swabian creek valley; born in 1821, and farmed in Shamokin township the greater part of his life, also engaging in the hotel business near Paxinos, on the Tulpehocken road. He dealt rather extensively in horses and cattle,and in the pursuit of his various interests became a widely known man. He died at his home in Stonington, in Shamokin township, in 1904, at the advanced age of eighty-three years, and is buried at Snydertown.In religious matters he was connected with the Lutheran church, and in politics he was a Democrat, taking interest in the success of his party and in the local welfare; he served as supervisor and overseer of the poor. Mr. Broscious's first wife, Rebecca (Hepner), daughter of George and Eve (Weiser) Hepner, died in 1859, aged forty-two years,the mother of three children: David, Henry and Elizabeth (who married Jacob Eister and lives in Sunbury). His second marriage was to MaryAnn Hartline, daughter of George Hartline, and she survives him. Twochildren were born to this union: Sevilla, who married John Richie;and Rebecca, who died young.
David Broscious, son of Samuel, was born in 1842 in the MahantangoValley, and died in Lower Mahanoy township, Sept. 4, 1902.

Samuel married Rebecca Hepner, daughter of George Hepner and Eve Weiser. (Rebecca Hepner was born about 1817 and died in 1859.)

Samuel next married Mary Ann Hartline.