Sam DUBOIS

1870 - 1942  (71 years)

• Name	Sam DUBOIS
  Birth	12 Sep 1870	New Paltz, Ulster Co., NY
  Gender	Male
  Death	05 Feb 1942	Hart, MI
  Burial	09 Feb 1942	Lakeside Cem., Muskegon, Muskegon Co., MI
  Person ID	I69	Benham Family Tree
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2025

  
  

  Family	Beulah Bertha BENHAM,   b. 07 Jul 1872, Belleville, Wayne Co., MI d. 1954, Muskegon, Muskegon Co., MI (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1892	Onaway, Presque Isle Co., MI
  Children	+ 1. Vinnie DUBOIS,   b. 1894, Onaway, MI d. 1962 (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Charles Peter DUBOIS,   b. 11 Jan 1899, Onaway, Presque Isle Co., MI d. 11 Jan 1952, Wolverine, Mi (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Mabel Dell DUBOIS,   b. 1903   d. 02 Jun 1910 (Age 7 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F53	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2025

  
  

• Notes

  In 1919 Sam and Buelah moved from Onaway to Muskegon. They took Norman Russell with them. They traveled in a covered wagon, pulled by a mule, and covered 20 miles a day. It took three weeks. At night they camped with other travelers in campgrounds by streams. Norm remembers, and liked, the sound of the chains on the wagon rattling as they traveled. Sam Dubois was a Spiritualist, but the rest of the family thought he was "a faker" with his Spiritualism. In Lakeside in Muskegon, he worked for a lumbermill, on logs in the water, pulling them up into the mill. Sam's father, Peter Dubois was an Orangeman, an Irish Protestant, from New Paltz, NY. He would wear an orang vest. 1910 Census. Onaway, Presque Isle Co., MI Dubois, Samuel head m w 39 m 17 yrs. b. NY Beulah wife f w 37 m 17 yrs b. MI Vinnie dau f w 15 s b. MI Charlie son m w 11 s b. MI Mabel D. dau f w 7 s b. MI (Mabel Del died on June 2, 1910)