Samuel Wesley Roe ¹²

  General Notes:

Prominent among the successful grain and stock raisers of Howard county, Nebraska, the gentleman here named occupies a foremost place. Mr. Roe resides on the northeast quarter of section fourteen, township fourteen, range eleven, situated in the above named county and state, where he has a well improved and fully-equipped grain and stock farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and also has a pleasant home built thereon.
Although Mr. Roe's birthplace was on Canadian soil, he could quite truthfully be called a life-long resident of his present abiding place, as he was brought here by his parents, Henry and Mary (McCracken) Roe, when but a baby of three months. Samuel Wesley Roe was born in Huron county, Ontario, Canada, December 26, 1871. Three months later, in 1872, his parents located in Howard county, Nebraska, homesteading the northeast quarter of section fourteen, township fourteen, range eleven, which, as before stated, is now the home of Samuel Roe, who also owns a section of farming land in another part of Howard county.
Howard county has been Mr. Roe's continuous residence place, with the exception of a time spent at the college at Central City. The Roe family were well known and highly respected pioneers of Nebraska. Our subject, Samuel Wesley Roe, was the fifth child. The father, Henry Roe, died February 11, 1908, at his home in St. Paul, to which place he had retired seven years before his death. His widow continues to make her home there. Mr. Roe is republican in politics, and has served his precinct in various local offices.
On September 17, 1902, Mr. Roe was married to Miss Jessie M. Ward, of Ord, Valley county, Nebraska, who was the second in a family of three children, all of whom are living. Her parents, Asahel and Amanda Ward, are still living in Valley county, the father in his ninety-second year, having been born in 1819. He is a well known pioneer citizen of Nebraska, coming to Howard county in 1871 from Iowa. This county remained his home for a few years, and he then moved to Valley county, where he has since resided.
Mr. and Mrs. Roe have had three children: Edgar Ward, born July 24, 1903; Claud Morris, born December 1, 1907, and Henry Howard, born June 9, 1909.
Mr. Roe is a prosperous and successful man of affairs, interested in the welfare of his county and state, and prominent in church circles.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration.

• Immigration, 1872, Nebraska.

Samuel married Jessie M. Ward, daughter of Asahel Ward and Amanda Jane Honnold, on 17 Sep 1902 in Howard County, Nebraska. (Jessie M. Ward was born in Aug 1879 in Ord, Valley County, Nebraska.)