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MILLENGER, SAMUEL, farmer, Fancy Creek, post office, Cantrall. Son of Henry and Polly (Mickel) Millenger, natives of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he was born January 27, 1832. There were eleven children of his father's family, five sons and six daughters, ten of whom lived to be adults, Susannah, Polly, Nancy, William, Elizabeth, Jacob, Henry, Sarah, Harry, Samuel and Catharine. His father died in Franklin county about 1860, at the age of one hundred and one. In 1851, Samuel left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio where he remained one year, and in 1852, came to Sangamon county, where he married Miss Almira Cantrall. She died in 1857, leaving one son, Samuel I. He again married Maranda Cantrall, a widow of Wm. Snelson, by whom one child was born, Chas. H. Mrs. Millenger was born in Fancy Creek township, May 12, 1826. There was four children, viz: Wm. C., Mahala, Debbie and Lucy E. In 1869, enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, Company C. His first engagement was at the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, siege and capture of Vicksburg, battle of Guntown, Tupelo, Spanish Fort, Ft. Blakely - and served three years - and was honorably discharged at Camp Butler. Has eight acres of land valued at $50 per acre. Raises twenty acres of corn, twenty-five acres of wheat, turns of twenty-five head of hogs.