SAMUEL McCULLOUGH

    Samuel McCullough did not long survive his settlement in this new and wild country.  He died in the spring of the year 1800, and his was the first death of a white person in the territory now comprising Union County.  He was the first settler to be buried in the Mitchell-Robinson Cemetery.  Scarcely more than a half-dozen families then lived here.  Mr. McCullough was, at the time of his decease, a young man , who had been married only two or three years.  His two children were Alexander, who died recently in Paulding County, and Samuel, a posthumous child, who died a wealthy and respected citizen of Jerome Township.  Mrs. Elizabeth (Mitchell) McCullough, the widow of Samuel McCullough, Sr., afterward married John Taylor, one of the earliest settlers of Madison County.