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Champion Samantha
Female 1811 - 1889

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  • Birth  1811  Avon, Livingston, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Female 
    _UPD  07 JAN 2009 22:28:43 GMT-5 
    Died  15 Feb 1889  Amadore, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID  I3304  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Champion Selden,   b. 17 Mar 1774, East Hampton, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Mar 1873, Winnebago, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Hart Huldah 
    Family ID  F1373  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Willitis Abraham Wilson,   b. 1810, New Lisbon, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Mar 1875, Amadore, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Y  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Willitis Charles Wilson,   b. 08 Oct 1834, Medina, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1863
     2. Willitis Malissa,   b. 27 Sep 1836, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Willitis Amanda Melvina,   b. 18 Jun 1837,   d. 31 May 1865, Worth, Sanilac, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Willitis Stafford Lawrence,   b. 1840
     5. Willitis Seymour,   b. 1842
     6. Willitis Nancy Maria,   b. 1844
     7. Willitis Addaline,   b. Jul 1847
     8. Willitis Rebecca,   b. Apr 1849
    Family ID  F1378  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • 293. Samantha Champion (Selden, Nathan, John, Thomas, Henry), born _____ 1811, in Avon, N.Y.; died 15 February 1889, in Amadore, Mich.; was married to Abraham Wilson Willits, born _____ 1810, in New Lisbon, Ohio; died 13 March 1875, in Amadore.*

      Mr. Willits was a cabinet maker by trade. About 1845 he settled in Port Huron, Mich., where he engaged in the furniture business, but two or three years later he removed with his family to a farm, all timber land, in Sanilac County, near what is now the village of Amadore. Here he cleared and developed his land, reared his family, and became one of the prominent farmers and influential citizens of the county. In religion he was a Methodist and in politics a Republican.

      [Willits] Children:
      i. Charles Wilson, b. 8 Oct. 1834, in Medina, O.; m. Melissa Berges. He was overtaken by a snow storm, while at work in his timber, and frozen to death in Jan, 1863. Children born in Amadore: - William Wilson; Charles; Stafford.
      ii Malissa, b. 27 Sept. 1836, in Cleveland, O.; m., 1st, 7 Aug. 1852, Rev. George N. Annes, a minister of the Baptist Church. Children:-Adrian Wilson, b. 8 Aug. 1854, in Amadore, m. in Galesburgh, Mich., 1 Feb. 1888, Ella Frances Chadwick (35. iv), b. 8 Nov. 1857, in Arcadia, N.Y., who d. 15 Mar. 1889, in Windom, Minn. He was graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1877 with the degree of Ph.B.; he then became a teacher and was the principal of the Madelia schools for three years after coming to Minnesota. He came to Windom, his present residence, in September, 1881, taking charge of the schools of that village for two years, and then went to Dakota, with the intention of establishing himself in merchantile business, but after spending a summer there he altered his plans, and entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1885. In July of that year he turned to Windom and opened a law office. He has built up an extensive practice, is a man of the strictest integrity, and is esteemed both as a businessman and an exemplary citizen; in politics he affiliates with the Republican party, and is present Mayor of Windom; he is an Odd Fellow and Free Mason, and is one of the prominent attorneys of the county. Ch.: Erle Chadwick, b. 29 Nov. 1888; Jessie Melvina, b. 17 Sept. 1856, in St. Clare, Mich., m. 7 Feb. 1877, Thomas H.Mitchell, b. 31 Mar. 1850, in Palmyra, Wis., who was formerly a merchant, but is now proprietor of Hotel Lake View in Medical Lake, Wash. Ch.: 1. Ira Clare, b. 21 Nov. 1879, in Palmyra; 2. Jessie Pearl, b. 1 Apr. 1886, in Hitchcock, Dak.; Franklin Eugene, b. 4 Sept. 1860, d. 18 July 1862; Effie May, b. 4 May 1868, in Middleville, Mich., d. 22 Sept. 1881. Mrs. Malissa Annes obtained a divorce fromher husband in 1880, and m., 2d, 25 Feb. 1884, Willis Clemmons Wesley, b. 2 Nov. 1832, in Greece, N.Y. They reside in Minneapolis, Minn.
      iii. Amanda Melvina, b. 18 June 1837; m. in Worth, Mich., 17 July 1855, John Galbraith, a Canadian, b. 4 Jan. 1826. She d. 31 May 1865, in Worth. He is a grain merchant and farmer in Amadore, Mich. Children born in Worth:- Ulysses, b. 11 Jan. 1857; William, b. 1859, d. 1860; Angeline, b. 1860; Emma, b. 16 Oct. 1862.
      iv. Stafford Lawrence, b. _____ 1840; was a sergeant in the Union Army and fought under Rosecrans at Nashville, Tenn., where he was taken prisoner. He died in Libby Prison.
      v. Seymour Selden, b. _____ 1842.
      vi. Nancy Maria, b. _____ 1844.
      vii. Addaline, b. July 1847.
      viii. Rebecca, b. Apr. 1849.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S199] The Champion genealogy : a history of the descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, together with some account of other families of the same name V.1, 245 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S199] The Champion genealogy : a history of the descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, together with some account of other families of the same name V.1, 250 (Reliability: 3).

  

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