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Samuel Sigler
Made a claim near Turkey Creek. His log
cabin is still standing on the first sand hill north of the Sykes
place. His date of settlement is 1837. He had four sons and three
daughters. One of the daughters married Hon. B.
Woods, another married Joseph Mundell, and the third one, -not third
as to age- married--- Walton, on Twenty Mile Prairie. Of the sons,
Samuel is a merchant at Wheeler, Eli and Daniel are
merchants at Hebron, and William Sigler is a merchant at Lowell. The
father, Samuel Sigler, died a few years ago at Hebron. The sons have
been for several years prominent business men. Some of the
grandchildren are now in manhood and womanhood, and are scattered
abroad and entering for themselves into active life.
By T.H. Ball-1873
History of Lake County
Hobart Pioneers- by Alice Mundell Demmon
in 1934
The first permanent settlements in what
is now the city of Hobart were made by a group of related families,
three in number. My great- grandfather, Samuel Sigler, settled at
the intersection of Liverpool road and Ridge road on September 4,
1837. With him in his little company of immigrants were the families
of his two eldest daughters, Elmira Sigler Hurst and Melvina Sigler
Mundell. The Hursts settled almost a mile south of the Sigler claim,
on what later was known as the Francen place. Mundell family settled
on Ridge Rd near Wisconsin St., the Mundell school is now occupying
part of the original grant.
This land was Government land and cost
$1.25 per acre. Some of it eventually sold for $1,000 per acre.
Samuel Sigler, son of Adam Sigler, a Methodist circuit-rider in the
Shenandoah Valley and adjoining Potomac and New Creek regions and Elizabeth Michaels, was born near Fort
Cumberland, MD, Sept 1, 1788. On Sept 28, 1809, he was married to
Nancy Ann Taylor of Hampshire Co., Virginia, born Nov. 10, 1788, a
daughter of Daniel Taylor and Margaret Thatcher, both natives of
Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Daniel Taylor served as an officer
during the seven years of the revolutionary war, and he received a
large tract of land in Fairfax Co., VA at the close of the war, this
immense region formerly owned by Lord Fairfax, being confiscated by
Colonial Govt. and given to loyal Americans. The Taylor homestead is
still in the hands of lineal descendants. After the National Road
was partly completed, Samuel Sigler and family emigrated to Harrison
County, VA. Here the two elder daughters married William Hurst and
Joseph Mundell. In 1834, all three families emigrated westward,
living two years in Elkhart county, Indiana, and then making their
permanent home in Lake County Indiana. At the time they located
here, Samuel and Ann Sigler had six children at home, Samuel Jr.,
William, Daniel, Eli, Ann Eliza (Mrs. Bartlett Woods), and Caroline
Matilda (Mrs. Anderson Walton). William and Elmira Hurst had two
children, Elizabeth Hurst (Hoyle) and Amanda Hurst (McClarkey).
Joseph and Melvina Mundell had three children, Elmore, Samuel and
Alonzo. Hence Hobart's first caravan of covered wagons contained
seventeen persons.
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