Judge Samuel Burnet Vance was born on 1 Nov 1830 in Montgomery county, Tenn.
S B Vance married to Ann (Nannie) Eliza Dixon In 1856, and to them five children were born, including Robert D. Vance, whom he had a law practice with. Samuel and Robert Vance were well known attorneys and in Henderson.
S. B. Vance died 15 July 1901.
Obituary:
The funeral of the late Judge Samuel Burnet Vance, whose death occurred Monday morning at 6 o’clock, took place this afternoon. Services were held at the
First Presbyterian church at 5 o’clock, and were largely attended, many from Evansville being present. The interment was in Fenwood cemetery and was in charge of Jerusalem lodge No. 9, F. & A. M.,
The following named pall-bearers officiated:
Honorary ball-bearers – James F. Clay, William Field of Evansville, I. A. Spalding, Morganfield; H. F. Turner, B. G. Witt, Judge John L. Dorsey, James R. Barret, D. J. Burr Reeve, W. T. Ellis, Owensboro; Dr. William M. Hanna. Active pall-bearers – James W. Clay, John F.
Lockett, James R. Rash, E. G. Sebree, J. Hawkins Hart, T. W. Buckner, William H. Stites, Posey Marshall.
The deceased was well known in Evansville, having visited here from 1880 to 1890 as a practitioner of law and serving as attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad company.
He was born in Montgomery county, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1830, and was educated in Lebanon. He spent his boyhood days in Todd county, Ky. He moved to Henderson, Ky., in the fifties, and at that time was a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Later on he resigned from the ministry and entered
the practice of law, his first partnership being with the late Colonel John W. Crockett, which was in 1855.
Previous to the formation of this partnership he was married to Miss Ann Eliza Dixon, by which marriage there was born five children, four of whom, R. D. Vance, Mrs. Mary V. Shouse, Miss Cordie Vance and Andrew Vance, with their mother, survive his decease. Afterward Judge Vance partnership formed a with Judge B. P. Cissell, which continued up to the time that Judge Cissell was elected to the circuit judgeship.
In the year 1869 Judge Vance and Montgomery Merritt formed a partnership which continued to 1877, when Mr. Merritt was elected to the legislature.
In the year 1880 Judge Vance removed with his family to Evansville, where he engaged in the practice of law for ten years, at the end of which time he returned to this city, and has since made his home here. Previous to his removal to Evansville he formed a partnership with his son, Robert D. Vance, which continued up to the time of his remise Monday.
He served as representative of Henderson county in the legislature for the 1894 term. As such representative he had passed several important measures, chief among which was the “married woman’s bill.” He was a democrat in the fullest sense of the word, and even with old age creeping upon him he did valiant work for the party in this section.
