Samuel Edward Kline
Samuel Edward Kline
The fourth born child to Josiah and Susan Kline is Samuel Edward Kline born on July 6, 1878 in Wolfsville, Marylanc. Samuel grew up assisting his father on the family farm until he married Bessie Mae Leatherman and started farming his own land. The hard working couple had 11 children together. Samuel's WWI Draft Registration card shows that he was of medium build and weight with dark hair and eyes.
The 1910 Census indicates that the family lived on Gettysburg and Harrisburg Rd in the Straban Township of Adams County, Pennsylvania. The family, at this time, consisted of five children: Earl, Florence, Mary, Wilber, and Nettie. Samuel is shown to have a mortgage on a farm he owned.
The 1920 census shows the family located in Franklin Township of Adams County, Pennsylvania. Upon the time of the census the following children were still residing in the family home: Earl, Florence, Mary, Wilber, Nettie, John, Ada, Ralph. Earl was at this time working as a laborer on a farm.
The census for 1930 shows the family farm on Ringgold Road to Lietersburg Road in the Washington Township of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. At the time of the census the following children still resided at home: Mary S, who worked as a seamstress at the knitting mill, John R, who worked as a laborer on a dairy farm, Ada R, Ralph G, Samuel E. Jr., Lester D, Wilber R, who also worked as a laborer for a dairy farm, Wilbur's wife, Ethel M. and their daughter Gladys.
On May 3, 1933, Samuel passed at the age of 55 following and operation for appendicitis, as was noted in the May 6, 1966 Gettysburg Compiler, article titled "Former Countian Dies".
Upon his death, the administrator of his will, listed in the Daily Mail on November 23, 1933, titled "Public Sale of Valuable Personal Property". This listed the sale of "6 head of horses and mules, 14 head of guernsey cattle, 42 head of hogs, wagons, mowers, rakes and loaders, 4 drills, tractor tools , 2 engines, hammer mill, 6 plows, 4 harrows (SP), corn plows, blacksmith and carpenter tools, horse gears, etc,. etc."