Robert Samuel Furnish was born on March 9, 1844 in Jackson County Iowa, to Thomas Furnish and Mary Said.

Samuel had eleven brothers and sisters; Sorelda Jane(1825-1827), Lenor Ann(1827), Emily Etta(1829), Nancy Ellen(1831), Mary Jane(1833), James Thomas(1836), John Allen(1838), William Henry(1842), Benjamin Wells(1848), Francis Marion(1852), and Lorinda Angelina(1854).

He died on February 18,1823. I do not know where
he is buried. I also don't know if he ever got married.

He was a Civil War Veteran of the Union Army, 8th Inf. Div. Company D of Kansas. (This information taken from the records that Edmund Ethan Furnish has of the Furnish's (1935).




From Brown County Biographical Sketches
"Robert S. Furnish, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 13, Township I, Ranger 15, P.O. Morrill was born in Jackson County, IA, March 9, 1844 and lived in his native State until his fourteenth year, when his parents removed to Kansas, locating on their farm (still owned by Mr. F.), which they pre-empted, in what is now Morrill Township, Brown County, in the spring of 1857. In the spring of 1862, the family returned to Jackson County,Iowa, where Mr. F. resided until 1865, except the time spent in the army, when he returned to Kansas, locating on the same farm occupied by the family in 1857, where with the exception of eight years spent traveling for the benefit of his health, Mr.F. has resided since. He participated in the war of the Rebellion as a member of Company B, Twenty-Sixth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and enlisted in Clinton, Iowa in August, 1862, and was discharged at Indianapolis, Ind., in October, 1864. he took part in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, Jackson, and siege of Vicksburg, Owing to the exposure during the siege of this place, Mr. F. was taken sick and was sent to St. Louis, and thence to the hospital at Indianapolis, where he was discharged for disability, from the effects of which he suffers to-day (sic). Mr. Furnish owns a choice farm of seventy acres on Pony Creek. It is all enclosed with substancial fences; is in a good state of cultivation, and well watered. The improvements consist in part, of a new frame dwelling, good frame barn, corn cribs, granary, etc. Mr. F. devotes his attention exclusively to raising corn and stock. He raises 800 to 1000 bushels of corn, keeps ten to fifteen head of fine grade cattle, forty to fifty head of stock hogs and ten to a dozen head of horses. Mr. Furnish is an honest, upright, and prosperous farmer, a good citizen and stands high in the community in which he lives."
-taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.


More About ROBERT SAMUEL FURNISH:
Census: 1850, Brandon Twp., Jackson Co. IA25
Census 2: 1860, Walnut Creek Twp., Brown Co. KS26
Census 4: 1880, Morrill, Brown Co. KS27