Samuel Burnham McClennen Hanson (1842 - 1938)

Born 15 Mar 1842 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah T. (Rice) Hanson — married 16 Sep 1866 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Husband of Hannah (Horn) Hanson — married 20 Jun 1869 in Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Dec 1938 at age 96 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Descendant of Thomas and Joan Mildenhall.

Civil War

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Samuel Hanson served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: August 12, 1862
Mustered out: August 12, 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 15th Regiment Pennsylvania

Samuel Hanson was a Prisoner of War during the United States Civil War.

Military Service: 15th Regiment Pennsylvania
12 AUG 1862-12 AUG 1865
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Samuel Burnham Hanson, was captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., Wikipedia after a horse fell on him, crushing his leg.

He was sent to Libby Prison^[4]. He spent 7 months and 18 days and was exchanged for a confederate prisoner on May 8, 1864.

Excerpts from Inquirer Staff Reporter June 29, 1938

Phila veterans make valiant Gettysburg Unit. June 29, 1938

Philadelphia came to Gettysburg today only six strong, but a more valiant six you never saw before in your life.

Samuel B. Hanson, 96 year old veteran “I went to war in a cattle car” he said as he stepped off of the train at 3 P.M. “and I wouldn’t mind riding in a cattle car again to come to Gettysburg. But it was no cattle car this time. No, sirree. Nothing was good enough but a special car. We sure could have used a special car in “63”.

It was the fifth time at Gettysburg for Hanson. He attended a G.A.R. national encampment here twice; visited the battlefield once; came to the 50th anniversary celebration of the big battle in 1913, and here he is again as chipper as ever.

June 29, 1938.

He is accompanied by one of his two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Shields. “She’s my bodyguard” he said “She is going to keep the girls away from me.” Hanson remembers that in 1913 the Philadelphia contingent of boys in blue numbered about 700. “We had a good time then, all right”, he said. “But you just watch me this time, provided I can get away from my bodyguard.”

Mrs. Shields who is used to that sort of talk, just smiled. “His legs aren’t any good,” she confided “He’s not going to do much running around.”

Later that day Samuel Hanson suggested a pinochle game, and they all gathered in his tent for an hour of social pastiming.

Hanson looked up from his dealing and gave a broad wink. “This reminds me of a meeting of Gen George Meade Post No. 2 G.A.R, Philadelphia.” He said

Others in the Philadelphia delegation were Samuel S, Fowler, 94 of 501 W. Hortter St., Germantown; William Ritter, 92 of 152 W. Queen La., Germantown; Allan T. McFarland, 92 of 2226 S. 67th St., Zachary T. Kirk, 90, of 1619 Fillmore St., Frankford, and James Burns, 92 of Upper Darby.

Fowler, quartermaster general of the Grand Army of the Republic. Arrived with his sergeant major’s sword, and his daughter, Mrs. Mae Carter.

The only two Philadelphia veterans who actually took part in the battle of Gettysburg had not yet arrived. They are William J. Baker, 90, of 22nd and Fitzwater sts., who was a drummer boy in the famous battle, and William Jackaway, 97, of 2621 N. Hutchinson St., who saw action against Pickett’s division in that Pickett’s charge that will be long remembered.

Jackaway is one of the very few survivors of that charge on either the Northern or Southern side who is still living. He was a member of the 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, a Philadelphia regiment, and was with the company which defended Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863. His name is carved on the monument marking the site of the Cemetery Ridge battle.

The other Philadelphians who have not arrived, although their tents have been assigned and are waiting, are Frederick J. McWade, 98, of Cottage and Decatur sts., Holmesburg, and John G. Tillett, 94, of 2513 S. 3rd St.

transcribed by John J Heine (Elizabeth4 Shields, Sarah Ritter3 Hanson, Samuel Burnham McClennen2 Hanson, Joseph Maitland1 Hanson)

Rev Richard Partington author of "My Reminiscences of the G.A.R., Samuel is mentioned “Daddy Hanson” his term for Samuel, with Samuels' Great Grandson John J Heine.

Bricks at the Civil War museum at Harrisburg For John, Samuel and Warrick Hanson[5] [6]

SAMUEL BURNHAM MCCLENNEN HANSON was born on 15 Mar 1842 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Named for Samuel Burnham McClennen (1819 - 1840) husband of Mary Ann Mendehall’s sister Sydney Bryson Mendenhall (1811 - 1876).). He died on 03 Dec 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We know he married several times, It is believed that his first wife is HANNAH T RICE in 1866. She was born in 1840 in Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. She died on 16 Oct 1868 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (4742 Washington Burial Date: 20 Oct 1868 Lot 18 Sec 5 Age at Death: 28. Dropsy). However if you note Charles date of birth it does open the question of a previous marriage. They were married September 16, 1866 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[7]

Samuel Burnham McClennen Hanson and Hannah T Rice had the following children:

i. CHARLES EUGENE HANSON was born on 14 May 1862 in Pennsylvania. He died on 11 Feb 1916 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Leverington Cemetery. Cert# 24444). He married Ellen Cecelia Carlin , daughter of James Carlin and Martha Matilda Reed, on 14 Dec 1882. She was born on 11 Oct 1864 in Pennsylvania. She died on 28 May 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Burial Date: May 31, 1938 Leverington cet # 41425).

ii. WARRICK HANSON was born on 10 Jun 1868 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in Sep 1868.

His second marriage is to HANNAH HORN on 20 Jun 1869 in Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania. She was born on 17 Aug 1845 in Pennsylvania. She died on 09 Sep 1911 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They married June 20, 1869 in Quakertown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania^{[citation needed]}

Samuel Burnham McClennen Hanson and Hannah Horn had the following children:

iii. MARY ELIZABETH HANSON was born on 09 Jun 1870 in Pennsylvania. She died on 22 Aug 1935 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oakland Cemetery). She married George Henry Zinn in 1888 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (18490). He was born on 23 Jun 1869 in Germany. He died on 25 Feb 1950.

iv. JOSEPH MAITLAND HANSON was born on 29 Jan 1872 in Pennsylvania (Named for his Grandfather Joseph Maitland Hanson (1806 - 1873)). He married Mary Greiss on 05 May 1898 in Bridesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (102403 St Stephen´s Episcopal Church Witness: Samuel Hanson, Mary Verner). She was born in Feb 1878 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

v. SARAH RITTER HANSON was born on 25 Jun 1874 in Pennsylvania. She died on 03 Aug 1949 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She married (1) JOHN JOSEPH MCCONNELL in 1896. He was born in 1871 in New Jersey. He died on 28 Dec 1915. She married (2) JOSEPH JOHN SHIELDS. He was born on 06 Dec 1886 in Carrigart, Donegal, Ireland. He died on 20 Oct 1974 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

vi. SAMUEL BURNHAM MCCLENNEN HANSON JR was born on 19 Jan 1875 in Pennsylvania. He died on 28 May 1960 (Age: 85). He married Gertrude Youngkin, daughter of Milton Youngkin and Katherine Sterner, in 1907 (2nd Marriage). She was born in 1881 in Pennsylvania. She died on 20 Oct 1918 in Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Oakland Cemetery, Age: 37).

vii. LEWIS F HANSON was born in 1878 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died on 18 Feb 1879 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Buried at Leverington).

viii. ESTHER LUETTA HANSON was born on 10 Jan 1880 in Pennsylvania. She died on 07 Jul 1972. She married Frederick Keller in 1896. He was born in Nov 1875 in Pennsylvania. He died on 05 Jul 1916.

ix. CATHERINE HANSON was born on 06 Jul 1881 in Manayunk, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died on 07 Dec 1884 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Leverington Cemetery).

x. JOHN WINPENNY HANSON was born on 15 Apr 1884 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died on 19 Jul 1960. He married Elizabeth Ruppert on 19 Jan 1905 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (182127). She was born on 03 Mar 1884 in Pennsylvania. She died on 30 Mar 1954.

xi. MARGARET ANN HANSON was born on 20 Feb 1887 in Pennsylvania. She died on 18 May 1985. She married (1) WILLIAM JOSEPH COOPER on 14 Jan 1905 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (169658). He was born on 07 Nov 1882 in Pennsylvania. He died on 30 May 1918. She married (2) BERNARD L HAGEN in 1940 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (720535). He was born on 18 Sep 1891 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in 1956 in Pennsylvania.

Samuel with Great Grandson Oscar Sinex

Like his father before him and many of his brothers he worked in the paper mills. He died at home at the grand age of 96 from coronary thrombosis, he was one of the eldest civil war veterans in Pennsylvania ^[8]. He is buried in the Leverington Cemetery, Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA^[9], where many of the Hanson family and their descendants are also interred. He rests not far from his parents.

Mendenhall Person: I5510

Census

1850 Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[10]

1860 21st Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[11]

1870 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[12]

1880 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[13]

1900 Philadelphia city Ward 25, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[14]

1910 Philadelphia Ward 45, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[15]

1920 Philadelphia Ward 45, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[16]

1930 Philadelphia (Districts 1001-1236), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C
2. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. T288, 546 rolls.
3. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Applications for Headstones for U.S. military veterans, 1925-1941; National Archives Microfilm Publication: A1, 2110-C; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General; Record Group Number: 92.
4. ↑ http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Libby_Prison
5. ↑ https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/memorial-bricks/
6. ↑ John J Heine (Elizabeth4 Shields, Sarah Ritter3 Hanson, Samuel Burnham McClennen2 Hanson, Joseph Maitland1 Hanson)
7. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V26T-HY4 : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel B. Hanson and Hannah T. Rice, 16 Sep 1866; citing Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 1,765,116.
8. ↑ Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates #104866, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
9. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #9587265
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4CP-94K : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel B Hanson in household of Joseph M Hanson, Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 377, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)..
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXRD-WMB : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel Hanson in household of Joseph Hanson, 21st Ward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 65, household ID 463, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 805,172..
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ5B-MJN : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel Hanson in household of Chas Dutell, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 16, family 117, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,908..
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWJL-2LF : accessed 11 June 2015), Sarne Hanson, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district 428, sheet 125B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1180; FHL microfilm 1,255,180.
14. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3WH-V25 : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel B Hanson, Philadelphia city Ward 25, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 1A, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,466.
15. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG7F-8DS : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel Hanson in household of Fredrick C Heller, Philadelphia Ward 45, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1148, sheet 1B, family 19, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,427.
16. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFYR-B8M : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel B Hanson in household of George Zinn, Philadelphia Ward 45, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 7B, family 146, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,821,637.
17. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH4F-W8H : accessed 11 June 2015), Samuel B Hanson in household of Mary Zinn, Philadelphia (Districts 1001-1236), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1114, sheet 7B, family 111, line 62, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2138; FHL microfilm 2,341,872.