Rev. Samuel Reese Shull ^{1 2}

   Another name for Samuel was Samue Reece Shull.²

  General Notes:

Samuel resided in Franklin County, Illinois; White County, Illinois; Logan County, Illinois; Kansas and Nebraska. He was living in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1914.
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Rev. S. R. Shull was a pastor of Eminence Church in Logan County, Illinois west of Atlanta near Ellis P. Clark Sr's farm in the area where the Clark and Houser families lived and were members. This church is a new building on the same site as the old church and Rev. Shull's picture still hangs in the church.

Sources: Family History of Ellis Pinkney and Sallie Houser Clark Compiled by Eleanor Malchow and Phyllis Bell, 1983
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Samuel had three children from a marriage prior to Lorina Houser and after she died, he remarried and had four more children.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He was buried in April 1922 in the Evergreen in Fort Scott, KS.

Samuel married Lorinda Houser, daughter of Joshua Howser and Rebecca Miller, on 24 June 1860 in , Logan County, IL.^{1 2} (Lorinda Houser was born on 5 March 1840 in , Logan County, IL ¹ and died on 1 December 1864 in , Logan County, IL ^{1 2}.)