Individual Details

Samuel Wasson, a Vermont farmer, who did valued service as a soldier in the War of 1812. And his father was one of Washington's troops in the War of the American Revolution. Samuel Wasson was united in marriage with Sarah Moon, daughter of Thomas Moon, a Rutland, Vermont farmer who passed his later years in Cattaraugus County, New York. Samuel and Sarah were married in Vermont and removed to New York, where they lived a number of years. Then they removed to Michigan in June, 1837, making their home on an unbroken tract of 214 acres of Unadilla Twp, Livingston County. Their log house was a distance of 1 mile from their neighbor, a Mr. Beale, who kept the post office at Plainfield. There were then no roads except as the pathway was marked out by blazed trees between this pioneer home and Dexter. Two log houses were at that time used as hotels in this vicinity one being kept by Mr. Dunn and another by Mr. Dyer. This early settler began life here with more means than many of his neighbors as he was able to pay for his and to provide himself with a team of horses and a yoke of oxen and had some money still remaining for the necessities of life. It is now thirty-five years since he passed away from this life at the age of 72 years, and his good wife who survived his for 3 years died at the same age. Of the eleven children of this worthy couple, three are now living: John, Myron, and Polly (Mrs. House). Samuel and Sarah were possessed of genuine Christian character and were charter members of the Presbyterian Church of Plainfield, where Mr. Wasson was a Deacon and Elder for many years and often supplied the pulpit by reading a sermon when no clergyman could be obtained. He was an old-line Whig and a man who was deeply interested in both temperance and education.

Birth	6 Apr 1783	Middletown, Middlesex Co, Connecticut
Death	Jun 1855	Michigan

Father	John Wasson (1759 - 1838)
Mother	Amea Turner (1764 - 1855)
Sibling	Millicent Wasson (1784 - 1845)
Sibling	Amea Wasson (1787 - 1869)
Sibling	Jonathan Turner Wasson (1790 - 1847)
Sibling	Mabel Wasson (1791 - 1878)
Sibling	Mary Wasson (1796 - 1874)
Sibling	Benjamin Wasson (1800 - 1851)
Sibling	John Wasson (1805 - )
Sibling	Stephan Wasson (1807 - 1880)
Sibling	Almira Wasson (1809 - 1855)
Sibling	Eunice Wasson (1811 - )
Sibling	Clara Wasson (1813 - )
Sibling	Charlotte Wasson (1815 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Wasson (1817 - )