"United States Census - Van Buren County,Tennessee 1900",transcribed by Margret Rhinehart,published in 1983 by the Van Buren Historical Society, Spencer,TN 38585 p. 32
"Samuel is the Blame for it All!",by the noted Middle-Tennessee historian and researcher, Robert A. C. Hillis (1919-1990). An unpublished collection of his notes provided by his wife, Leona Martin Hillis. p. 13