Samuel Eachus

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research of Brian Eachus on genforum message board - Eachus is an English name, I have traced it back to 1304 in Minshull Vernon,Cheshire England. it comes from a norman word "Ecel" which means a piece of land added to an estate. the piece of land being Old Hoolgrave and the estate being the Kinnerton Estate. The lane down to the farm at Old hoolgrave is still called Eachus Lane (I asked the post man) The field at the bottom left of the lane is called Eachus field and was written as Eachus plan in 1304. We is only one family in the world called Eachus. we have NO German connection.

research of S. Eachus on genforum message board -
Samuel Eachus, b. PA 1795, m. Mary Dooley (of MD). She d. 1856 in Henry Co, IA. He moved to CA and d. in Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co, CA in 1885.



(Research of H T Eachus on Genforum message board)
Samuel Eachus
Aged 55 in the census taken October 17, 1850 in Jackson county, Illinois. Was born in Pennsylvania about 1795. – He and his wife had seven children born in Virginia between 1817 and 1830.
The 1840 Census in Jackson Country, Illinois indicates that he and his family were living there. Samuel and Mary moved in about 1855 or 56 to Henry Country (Jefferson Township), Iowa to be near three of their sons—David, William and James and their families. Mary died and Samuel moved to live with his son James in Wayland, Iowa in 1856. He went with the Eachus brothers on the 1865 trip. Everett Eachus of Carmichael writes to Herbert Brandson Eachus in 1959 that his grandfather died about 1885 in Los Gatos, Santa Clara Country, California and was approximately 85-90 years old.
Samuel Eachus may have gone with his son Benjamin to California than 1865. Benjamin Eachus was already residing near Red Bluffs when the three brothers, James, David and William came west to California in 1865. James stayed with William on 20 Sep 1865 for two days following the five month trip from Iowa.



The seven children of Samuel and Mary Eachus were (from the census of 1840 from Jackson County Illinois):
David Winchester Eachus 13 Sep 1817 Virginia
James Dooley Eachus 21 Oct 1820 Virginia
Samuel Eachus about 1822-23 Virginia
Benjamin Eachus about 1824-25 Virginia
Daughter (no name given) about 1826-7 Virginia
Julia F. Eachus 1828 Virginia
William A. Eachus 1830 Virginia



1850 Jackson County, IL
Samuel EACHUS 1795
Mary 1785
William 1831 Virginia

Samuel married Mary Dooley. (Mary Dooley was born circa 1785 in Maryland, died in 1856 in Henry County, Iowa and was buried in Methodist church graveyard in Wayland, Iowa.)