When Samuel Chess was born on 4 November 1800, in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Chess, was 46 and his mother, Susannah, was 25. He married Elizabeth Roberts about 1832, in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salem, Sugar Grove Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 11 April 1881, in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Greenville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English (Gloucestershire): of uncertain origin. Formally it might derive from Middle English ches, chesse (Old French esches) ‘chess’ (referring to the game, a set of chess pieces, or a chess board), or from Middle English chesse ‘(poppy) seed pod’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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