Samuel Segner ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: MR52-82F.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Baptism in Jul 1811 in Mount Zion: Zoar Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA. ² Samuel Segner b. 21 Jan 1811, the son of Georg Segner, was baptized in Jul 1811 at Zoar Evangelical. The sponsor was Jacob Bicher.

2. Samuel Segner donates land to build Palm Church on 12 May 1845 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ⁷ From Lebanon Daily News, Feb 1851, Special Mid-Century Edition...

Palm United Church of Palmyra Has Colorful History
Church services were held in Palmyra as early as 1842 but there was no established church. Eventually plans to provide a Lutheran and Reformed church were formulated and two lots were donated by Philip Matter and Samuel Segner. The site was in the 700 block on the south side of West Main Street.
Actual work was begun when on May 12, 1845, the cornerstone was laid. The church was called Palm Church. Serving as the first pastor was the Rev. J. T. Vogelbach.

3. Palm Lutheran Church: George Segner Sr., Samuel Segner, Thomas Sengner, George Henry Segner, communicants: 1852-1854. From 1847 to 1854 in Palmyra: Palm Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA. ⁸

4. Census in 1850 in Palmyra, Lebanon, PA. ³ The 1850 census recorded Samuel Segner, merchant tailor, 39, living with wife Mary, 37; George, 16; Aaron, 10; John, 8; William, 5; and Joseph, 1. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Samuel's real estate was valued at $2500. Also in their home was Henry Barnett, 25; Rosanna Miller, 23; Ruben Miller, 16; and Mary's mother, Anna Zimmerman, 60.

5. Census in 1860 in Palmyra, Lebanon, PA. ⁹ The 1860 census recorded Saml Segner, tailor, 49, living with wife Mary C., 46; Wm, 14; Joseph, 10; Annie E., 9; and Louisa C., 6. Also in the home was Jonathan Poor, junior tailor, 21; and Saml Bricker, junior tailor, 18. Samuel's real estate was valued at $5000 and personal estate $1650. Next door is Mary C.'s mother, Annie Zimmerman, 63, living with a servant, Elizabeth Bowers, 17. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

6. Residence: in 1869 in Danville, Vermilion, IL. ⁶

7. Census in 1870 in Danville, Vermilion, IL. ¹⁰ The 1870 census recorded Saml Segner, tailor, 59, living with wife Mary C., 56; Joseph, clerk in shoe store, 21; Annie, 18; and Lucy, 16. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Samuel's real estate was valued at $5000 and personal estates $650.

On the same page is Samuel's son, George H. Segner, merchant tailor, 36, living with wife Minerva, 32; Nellie, 4; and Allen, 2. George was born in Pennsylvania, Minerva in Indiana, and the children in Illinois. George's real estate was valued at $3500 and personal estate $5150.

8. Residence: in 1875 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ⁶

9. Census in 1880 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ¹¹ The 1880 census recorded on Main Street; Samuel Signer, tailor, 69, living with wife Mary C., 66, and servant Anna Baker, 17. They and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

10. Residence: in 1888 in Saybrook, McLean, IL. ⁶

11. Obituary: Lebanon Daily News: Death of Samuel Segner on 3 Aug 1891 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ¹² Death of Samuel Segner.
Mr. Samuel Segner, of Saybrook, Ill., died in that place last Wednesday, aged 83 years. The deceased was a Lebanon countian by birth and lived in Palmyra. Later, in 1876 he dwelt in this city, when he moved West and located in the above place. The Danville Commercial says: "He was noted for his honesty and integrity and his christian devotion. He was a member of the First M. E. church and held the faith during his last moments. He leaves a wife and five children -- Geo. H., of this place; Joseph, of Lafayette, Ind., William, of Philadelphia; John, of Waco, Texas, and Mrs. Anna E. Stewart, of Saybrook. They were all at the funeral except John Segner.

12. Newspaper: Lebanon Courier Weekley Report: Death of a Former Lebanon Countian, 5 Aug 1891, Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. ⁶ Mr. Morris A. Knabel, of Bloomington, Illinois, formerly of Myerstown, kindly furnished us the following from the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph:
"Mr. Samuel Segner died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Steward, in Saybrook, on Tuesday morning at four o'clock. He was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, Januey 21, 1811, and went to Danville, Illinois, in 1869. He moved to Hoopeston in 1875. He with his aged wife, have been living with his daughter in Saybrook since 1888. His wife, who survives him has been blind for thirty years. He was a merchant tailor by occupation, at which business seventy years of his life were spent.
He was a member of the M. E. church at the time of his death, having been previously connected with the German Lutheran church in Pennsylvania for most of his life.
Services will be held at the residence of Mr. M. M. Stewart, in Saybrook, at nine o'clock this morning, after which the remains will be taken to Danville for interment."

13. Newspaper: Belvidere Standard: "Samuel Segner, aged 31 years, died at Saybrook. He was engaged in tailoring for over seventy years in Danville and Saybrook.", 12 Aug 1891, Belvidere, Boone, IL. ¹³

Samuel married Maria Catherina Zimmerman, daughter of Zimmerman and Anna, on 28 Oct 1833 in Lebanon: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA.¹ (Maria Catherina Zimmerman was born on 16 Sep 1814 in , Lebanon, PA ^{3 4 5 14}, christened in Oct 1814 in Lebanon: Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lebanon, PA,¹⁴ died on 28 Dec 1891 in Saybrook, McLean, IL ^{4 5 15} and was buried on 30 Dec 1891 in Danville: Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Vermilion, IL ^{4 15}.)