There are so many Sam Hazletts in our tree that it can get very
confusing. They range from one born in the 1700s, probably in Scotland,
to one that is living. This particular Sam was a nephew of our earliest
Sam, whom many of you are descendants of. But, like some of you, this
one is a desc. of the first Sam's younger brother, John Hazlett, and of
Sarah/Sally CAMPBELL Hazlett's sister, Jane CAMPBELL Hazlett.
The copyright has expired, so I can legally include the newspaper
article. I'll also include some other brief articles on this Sam, He was
born Oct 28, 1814 on the land that his Uncle Sam bought from Daniel
Strait. I don't know for sure, but I assume the farmhouse was built by
John Hazlett, using lumber form his brother's saw mill. And the Sam of
the tribute, died there Feb. 5, 1888. I think most of us would feel our
life had been successful if someone were to write such a tribute to us.
The Enoch Blackwell mentioned in the tribute (and there were even more
Enoch Blackwells than Sam Hazletts), was the (1814 - 1884) Enoch,
brother of Mary BLACKWELL Campbell {James' wife) --- not Mary's father
Enoch.
The Wellsboro Agitator, Mar 20, 1888, p3 has:
The late Samuel Hazlett.
FEELING TRlBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF A
GOOD MAN.
The Elkland Journal a few days ago
contained a tribute to the memory of the
late Samuel Hazlett, of Nelson, who died
on the 5th ultimo in his seventy-second
year. We copy the article, which is from
the pen of his pastor at Nelson:
The death of this good man, survived
and mourned by so many friends, deserved
more than- the ordinary notice. He be-
longed to the first or oldest settlers in Nel-
son. He was born and brought up here
and spent his whole life amid his kindred
and acquaintances. No one was better
known in the community nor more loved
and respected by all for his goodness,
kindness of spirit and his every-day;
Christian life.
It was scarcely known that he was sick.
He had been suffering for about two weeks
from a severe cold, but still attended to
his business. On Sabbath morning there
was a change, and the sad and startling
news soon spread through the place that
Samuel Hazlett was dying. It came so
unexpectedly and with such force to the
people just as they were going to church
that every heart was hushed into silence
and the services which he loved so well
became peculiarly sad and solemn—min-
gled with many tears—"sorrowing most
of all that they should see his face no
more" in his accustomed seat engaged in
worship with God's people.
Mr. Hazlett was converted in his early
manhood, when about eighteen or twenty
years of age. He was then plowing in the
field in front of the house where he lived,
and he there and then gave his heart to
Christ, and soon joined the Presbyterian
Church at Elkland. His name is among
the twenty-one persons from that Church
who, in February, 1844, petitioned the
Presbytery of Chemung to organize a Pres-
byterian Church at.Nelson, then called
Beecher's Island. The petition was grant-
ed, and the Rev. S. J. McCullough, by the
authority of the Presbytery, organized the
Church on March 3d, 1844.
Mr. Hazlett served the Church first as a
deacon for six years, from 1852 to 1858,
then as an elder from that .time to the time
of his death. He and Mr. Enoch Black-
well, of cherished memory, were ordained
Ruling Elders together on March 21st
1838, by Rev: J. O. Carnachan, then pas-
tor of the Church. This completed the
Session of the Church as it was composed
thirty years ago and continued for for years
afterward, viz., Joseph Campbell, James
Campbell, Charles Blanchard, Enoch Black-
well, Samuel Hazlett.
But all these grand, good men, fathers
in Israel and the pillars of the Church, have
passed to their reward. In view of this
fact the feelings of many were voiced when
one said when he fell, "the last prop is
gone. Others will do and help; but he
went there for a purpose---for worship."
Mr. Hazlett was in every way a good
citizen. He was a friend to the poor, kind,
sympathetic, benevolent in disposition,
honorable in business, devout in spirit,
godly in work and conversation. He en-
joyed the confidence and respect of all who
knew him. But his ruling passion was his
love for the habitation of the Lord's house
and the prosperity of His cause. He was
always in church on the Sabbath and in the
prayer-meeting. He could be depended
upon everywhere and always in that which
was good. His heart and hand, time and
service, were the Lord's. The worth, the
influence and power of such a life, is
inestimable in a community, either for
time or eternity. He left to his family a
Heavenly Father's blessing as well as a
father's unsullied name.
A large concourse of people attended his
funeral at the Presbyterian church , De-
vout men carried him to his burial, and his
pastor, Rev. R. G. Williams, preached
from the words "Yea, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."
W.
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There are two more articles about this Sam that you might find of
interest. The Wellsboro Agitator of Nov. 4, 1879 has:
Nelson News.
THE TIMES IMPROVING GOOD CROPS—AN
INTERE8TINO BIRTHDAY PARTY
Correspondence of the Agitator.
NELSON, October 30, 1879.— ...
...
One Tuesday of this week there was a large gathering of friends and
neighbors at the residence of Mr. Samuel Hazlett in honor of Mr.
Hazlctt's birthday. About sixty persons were present in all, most of
them being relatives. Among the rest I noticed Mrs. John Flint, from
Illinois, a sister of Mr. Hazlett, who is east on a visit. A large
numher of valuable gifts were presented to Mr. and Mrs. Hazlett and to
Mirs. Fliot, including some money.
Mr. Hazlett is sixty-five years of age, He is a son of John Hazlett, and
was born on the farm where he now lives and where he has lived all liis
life , In these dsys of "rolling stones" and "western fevers" it is
something remarkable to find an American as old as Mr. Hazlett living on
the spot where he was born.
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Wellsboro Agitator of Feb 14, 1888 has:
Mr. Samuel Hazlett
Mr. Samuel Hazlett, an old and esteemed citizen of Nelson, died last
week Sunday of pneumonia. He was 71 years of age and had always resided
at Nelson. He was sick only two days