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BIOGRAPHY For the family of Samuel Nacy Hufstedler & Susan Galloway Polk SAMUEL NACY HUFSTEDLER was born on 12 August 1859 in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee, son of Pinckney Hufstedler and Louisa Jane Randel. SUSAN GALLOWAY POLK was born on 31 August 1862 in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of John Alexander Polk and Frances A. Taylor. Susan’s middle name of “Galloway” is very interesting. It is not a normal “middle” name and I suspect that it is the maiden name of one of her grandmothers or great grandmother’s. It was very common in these days to name children in this way.
Samuel and Susan were both born in the same town, they were sure to have grown up together and met through school, church, or some social function. A marriage license was applied for on 15 December 1879 in Perry County Tennessee. They were married on 16 December 1879, when Samuel was 20 and Sudie (as Susan was apparently known) was age 17.
The first record I have of them after their marriage is on the 1880 federal census. They are listed as living with Samuel’s parents (P. & L. J. Hufstedler) in District 6, Perry County, Tennessee. By the 1900 federal census, they are living in their own house with 6 children having been born to them, still living in the 6th district, Perry County, Tennessee. By 1910, they are living with their two youngest children, along with their divorced or separated daughter Kyle Largent and her daughter Goldie. They are still living in Perry County, Tennessee.
There is a family story about the Samuel Hufstedler family that was published in “The Hufstedler Book” by Lena Jo Glaser. She writes that around 1912 or 1913, Joe & Ada Bridges (their oldest daughter’s family) had moved to Paragould Arkansas and persuaded Samuel and family to come and join them. The family traveled by train from Memphis. They made one crop in Arkansas but were unhappy with the move. So Joe Bridges & Samuel Hufstedler and families went back to Tennessee. First they went to Bogato, Tennessee by train, and then on to Dyer County. The settled near Newbern and remainder there.
We find them next in the 1920 federal census, living on Santown Road in District 6, Dyer County, Tennessee. Living with them is their two youngest children, their daughter Kyle and her daughter Goldie. In the 1930 census, they are living on Church Grove Road, in the 6th district, Dyer County, Tennessee. Living with them is their daughter Kyle. Around them in the adjacent households are two of their sons, Ralph and Pink. It may be that Samuel divided up some of his land for his sons upon obtaining age. This will have to be checked further with land records. Samuel’s occupation throughout his life was that of a farmer.
Susan died on 10 February 1940 at her home in Newbern, Dyer County Tennessee at age 77. Samuel died on 7 June 1949 at home on West Williams Street in Newbern, Dyer County, Tennessee at age 89. He died of pulmonary edema, which is an abnormal or excessive accumulation of fluid in intercellular tissue spaces or body cavities. The elderly are often at risk for this. Both Samuel and Susan are buried in the old section of the Fairview Cemetery in Newbern.
They had seven children, six of whom lived to adulthood. All were born in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee.
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