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The origin of the emblems is said to have been this, at an early period John Huston with, body of soldiers reinforced a broken column and for his great courage and unexampled energy was, knighted on the field of battle. The grey hounds indicate the fleetness of his command in coming to the rescue. The run sands' of the hourglass, the perilous extremity of the army and the mortal.

Samuel Jay Huston born September 29, 1800 married May 27, 1823 in Portsmouth, Ohio., to Elizabeth Leonard, born November of 1804. Their Children- William, later Judge Huston, Elizabeth Leonard, married Samuel H Worcester, Margaret, married Thomas Shelby, Maria Louise, married Col Tompson Varner, Franklin died when 15 years old, Cecelia, married Gilbert Collins, Sarah L married Dr George Washington, Helen married Capt John L Morton, Thomas married Carrie Marsh, and Lenora Irene did not marry. Son Hempstead, died in infancy, James was a cadet at West Point, and died at 22 years. Samuel Jay married Martha Shelby and son Barker died in Infancy.

Laid to Rest- 1873

Elizabeth Leonard wife of Hon Samuel J Huston, passed on at the family residence, at half past four o'clock Tuesday morning. Jan'y ___ of congestion of the heart, aged sixty-eight year, two months and eight days. She was the daughter of Mr Leonard and wife Elizabeth of the Connellsville, Penn., who moved to Portsmouth in 1815, when she was eight years old. She was the youngest of eight children, of which only three survive, Mrs Nancy Barker, Mrs Susan Davis and Mrs Sarah Caldwell. She is survived by her husband, whose father emigrated to Portsmouth on a keel boar, thru heavy ice- on the Ohio river in 1801. On May 27, 1823 , they were united in marriage, and fourteen children were born to them, ten of whom were at her side when the end came. Mrs Huston was noted for her sterling business qualifications and her innate kindness of heart. The civil war brought on reverses and at this time she assumed all the management of financial affairs and with an energy seldom displayed by women and with a business sagacity second to none of the opposite sex, she retrieved the failing fortunes and succeeded in amassing considerable property, while her family was well provided for, and her children were educated. She had forth the mind and the determination to execute. It was not a venture, She was a great reader, and she read carefully, profiting by what she read. Probably none were better educated, as to the Political aspect of the country for the past twelve years, than the subject of this sketch. Men who have led the charge on the battle fields, men who have legislated in the Senate Chamber, and in the halls of Congress, have been her honored guests, and yet no false pride degraded her ambition. For the poor always found in her a friend. No one knows all he bounty for she never let the left hand know, what the right hand found to do. To the young man who was struggling for preferment, she was always the firm friend and by word and deed encouraged him onward and upward. When James M Ashley was a law student, poor and unable to pay his board and without a library she lent him books, and told him to make her house like home, and pay when he was able; not until he became a member of Congress and the debt discharged. A rising member of the bar in this place today is indebted to the dead woman of whom we write, for books and kind words. Glancing still further back, to the time of the Mexican war, she led a movement for purchasing and making one hundred suits of clothes for the company raised in this place by Capt Edward Hamilton. During that war she was energetic in her efforts for the amelioration of the condition of the sick and disabled soldiers, and in the more recent strife that was waged by kindred people, her property now known as the City Hall was donated for Hospital purposes for the Government soldiers. The death of an aged citizen is at any time a fit subject for review, but the death of one whose life has been so full of reminiscences of a pleasing nature affords no reader to apologize for its length. The intelligence of her sudden taking fell harshly upon the heart of an aged husband, her grief stricken children, her mourning relatives and her many friends, but who suffers the shadowy pall to fall darkening between us and the lives we love, will in that great day great them in vain, that we may enjoy them again. -Portsmouth Daily Times

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