Samuel Stokely (January 25, 1796 – May 23, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.
Stokely was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).
He resumed the practice of law in Steubenville, where he died May 23, 1861.
He was interred in Union Cemetery.
the Grove, where Stokely lived from about 1830
In April 1830, he married Rachel Mason. He purchased the Bezaleel Wells homestead, The Grove, at a sheriff's sale, and he and his descendants lived there for sixty years.[2] He was a general in the militia, and also married and was survived by Mrs. Lowther and Mrs. Burton. He had four children.[2]
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