On Saturday, July 1, 2006 the descendants of John Sample & Jerry Metcalf will host a dedication at the Sample Cemetery to designate this family cemetery as a historial cemetery as noted by the state of Texas.  If you are a descendant of one of the children of John Sample & his wife, Sarah Davis Sample, who settled in Shelby County in 1838 come and join family and friends to honor this special pioneer family.  We will start gathering at the cemetery about 9am with the dedication ceremony to start at 10:30am with lunch to follow.  Bring your family and share in the history of these families.  Other related lines are Metcalf, Cummings, Luman, Kearney, Duncan, Kay, Chandler, Green, Miller, Strickland, Cruse, Tyler and Weeks.  If you have never been to the Sample family reunion come to meet your long lost cousin, share in the fellowship of the day, and share research with others who are working on the family tree.  From Center, take Highway 87 South to Shelbyville, at the top of the hill taken FM 417 E (to the left) about 2 miles at the intersection of FM 2694, bear to the right.  Go about 4 miles until you see a red gravel road to the right marked with a forestry sign (165). Turn on 165, at the dead-end turn left. Continue on this road until it ends at the Sample Cemetery.  The Cemetery is at the Hinkle Schilling Fox Pen.  For additional information contact Vickie Martin @ vsm@qzip.net or Barbara Lindley at 936-368-7176.

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