Samuel McCulloch
The late Samuel McCulloch, who for years was a funeral director at Yellow Springs, was a native of Ohio, born in the neighboring county of Clark on December 5, 1823, and was ten years of age when his parents, Samuel and Agnes (Browne) McCulloch moved down to Yellow Springs and there established their home. He finished his schooling there and when sixteen years of age began to work at the cabinet-making and house-building trade, later, as a young man, giving particular attention to the making of coffins, and when thirty-two years of age, about the time of his marriage, established himself in the undertaking business at Yellow Springs, continuing there thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring there in April, 1900, he then being in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and was buried in the cemetery at Yellow Springs, the spot in which he had during many years of service performed a similar office in behalf of those who had preceded him there. Mr. McCulloch was a member of the United Presbyterian church.
On October 16, 1855, at Yellow Springs, Samuel McCulloch was united in marriage to Hannah Herrick Blasdell, who was born in the state of Maine in 1833, and who was but a girl when she accompanied her parents. John and Mary (Herrick) Blasdell, to Ohio, the family settling in Yellow Springs. Hannah Blasdell entered Antioch College after her parents had located at Yellow Springs and afterward became engaged as a school teacher, which profession she was following at the time of her marriage to Mr. McCulloch. To that union were born six children, namely: Samuel H., who is living at Yellow Springs; Mary Agnes, deceased; Anna D., deceased; Archibald, who is now living at Ft. Riley, Kansas; one who died in infancy, and Mary, who married Charles Lucas, now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, and has two children, Joseph and Ruth. After her husband's death Mrs. McCulloch went to Texas and for six years kept house there for her son Samuel. Upon her return to Ohio she located at Dayton, but four years later returned to her old home at Yellow Springs and has since been living there.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918