Samuel Lander Hough
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Extract from Derby Daily Telegraph 28 December 1940
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Death Of Mr S L HOUGH
The funeral will take place on Monday following a service at St Barnabas Church Derby of Mr S L Hough, of Hayworth Street Derby, a veteran of the American Civil War, who died Boxing Day, aged 92.
Mr Hough was the son of a wheelwright in business in Ford Street, Derby and was taken to America by his parents in 1850. He was still a boy when the Civil War broke out, but he gave his age as 18 and joined the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry. He was wounded in the right leg at the Battle of Gettysburg.
On his return to Derby, Mr Hough set up a business as a cooper in Ford Street, in the very house he was born. He retired some years ago.
Mrs Hough and three sons are bereaved.
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Samuel was born on 7th April 1848 and lived in Ford Street.
He emigrated with his parents in May 1850 and lived in Brooklyn and later in New Jersey. Records show that he enlisted in the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry in September 1864 when he was 16 years and 5 months old. Stories suggest that he fought at the Battle of Gettysburg but this was in early July 1863.
He mustered out of the army, after the war was over, on 29th June 1865.
He returned to Derby and once again lived on Ford Street. He married Sarah Ann Hill, the daughter of a neighbour in 1874 and had 3 sons.
Sarah died in 1880 and in the April 1881 census Samuel is shown as being a widower and a Coopers labourer.
In July 1881 he married Fanny Williams, a widow and the younger sister of Sarah Ann Hill.
Fanny died in 1891 and in 1892 Samuel married Elizabeth Beecroft.
In 1921 Samuel met King George V when he visited Derby. Newspaper articles record that Samuel was introduced to the King as a Civil War veteran and they briefly spoke.
Samuel died aged 92 on 26th December 1940 and was buried In Nottingham Road cemetery in the grave of his infant son Geoffrey Beecroft Hough who died in 1899. His third wife Elizabeth died in 1944 and was buried in the same grave. Neither parent is named on the grave.
