Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia HISTORY OF
MACOUPIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCENERY,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS.
Among the most successful agriculturalists of this township is
Samuel Huddleston, who was born October 24th, 1823, in Hardin
county, Kentucky. His father, John Huddleston, was also a native
of Kentucky. He emigrated to Illinois from Indiana in 1825 and
to Macoupin County, Illinois, in 1831, being among the early
settlers of the county; he had a family of seven chldren, six of
whom are now living, as follows: Samuel, Melvina, Robert W.,
Melinda, Mary Ellen and Lydia; Elizabeth is dead. Samuel's
mother's name was Nancy Huddleston. She was born in Kentucky,
Jan. 2d, 1808, and died in 1879. Samuel Huddleston marreid Miss
Elizabeth Buck, July 7, 1842, who died March 18th, 1862; by this
union he had six children. By his second marriage he had four
children. His life has been a successful one, starting in life
as he did with a bare pittanc