From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 695-696.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


SAMUEL DORSEY

Sameul Dorsey, a prominent farmer of Washington district, was born in 
Marshall county, December 26, 1848.  He is the son of Thomas Dorsey, 
a native of Maryland, who came to this country at the age of about 
twenty years, and settled on a farm near where Samuel now resides, 
becoming prominent among the early settlers. His death occurred in 
November, 1869, at the age of fifty-seven years, and his wife, 
Rebecca Dorsey, is still living.  Of their eleven children, eight are 
living, mostly in Marshall county.  Samuel Dorsey is engaged in 
farming and has given much attention to the buying and shipping of 
live stock, in which he has done an extensive business.  He is one of 
the substantial and progressive men of the region, and one of those 
instrumental in organizing the Marshall County bank, and was one of 
its first directors.  November 12, 1872, he was married to Sarah E., 
daughter of W. S. and Susan (Bonar) Pierce, old and highly respected 
citizens.  To this union have been born two children:  Pearl and 
Elmer W., both members of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which 
the paents also belong, and their parents before them. Mr. Dorsey's 
home farm, about four miles east of Moundsville, is handsomely 
situated, and provided with the comforts and conveniences of modern 
life.  It was two miles east of this, near the Waynesburg pike, that 
Mr. Dorsey captured Eugene Johnson, who shot and killed J.P. 
Thatcher, city sergeant of Moundsville, June 25, 1886.  The arrest 
was made three days later. 


(Linda Fluharty)