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Sampson
got the property to the east of Gill Hall and Finleyville Road,
including what is now Ridge Road.
Now it looks like the Castor and Huffman families merged.
Lewis and Catherine Huffman were Castor's neighbors to
the east, on property north of Ridge Road.
Two Huffman daughters married the two Castor sons who
were left with the land. Sarah
Huffman married Sampson Castor, and Katherine Huffman married
Gabriel Castor. And
a William Huffman, probably a brother, now owned Piersall's
subdivision, "the farm."
More research
needed on the Huffman family.
Sampson and Sarah stayed here and prospered.
They had 8 children.
At some point they bought the elder Huffman's property
and built the house there, the one Bill Castor later lived in,
and at some point someone, probably a Bedell, built the stone
house further down the hill toward the creek.
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Sampson
and Sarah are buried at Stone Church Cemetery.
His is the nice tombstone near the road with the two
hands holding each other. He
lived from 1789 - 1869. Sarah
is lying next to him. Hers
is the tombstone with the Bible, and an inscription on the base
of the tombstone. She
lived to be 83.
Sampson
and Sarah had children, including a Sampson P Castor and a
Gabriel P Castor.
The
two sons split up the property, but this
is the subject for a later detailed presentation on the Custard
property.
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