Hines, Rev. H.K., D.D. "An Illustrated History of the State of Washington." Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893. Samantha Packwood Croll Mrs. Samantha CROLL, nee PACKWOOD, is the daughter of William and Rhoda (PROTHERS) PACKWOOD, well known pioneers of Thurston county, Washington. Mrs. CROLL was born in Monroe county, Missouri, June 10, 1836, and crossed the plains with her parents in 1844, experiencing all of the hardships and some of the greatest suffering incidental to frontier life. In 1854, at the age of eighteen, she was first married to S.N. WOODRUFF, also a pioneer of Washington. They had three children, all of whom are now living and married, viz: W.H. WOODRUFF, Mary E. MCKENZIE and Ella J. OLSON. Mrs. WOODRUFF obtained a divorce from her first husband, and then conducted her farm in a most able manner, her work comparing favorably with that of any man in her vicinity-- which fact is not mentioned as peculiar, but as evidence of her energy and determination, which were supplemented by an intelligent comprehension of her work. She continued the management of the farm herself until her marriage to Jacob CROLL, in 1868, when he began to assist her in its care. Jacob CROLL, also a pioneer of Washington, was born in Pennsylvania, December 3, 1828, and was a son of H. and Elizabeth (SCHULL) CROLL, also natives of the Keystone State. In an early day Jacob CROLL left the State of his birth and went to the State of Wisconsin, where he followed the lumber business until 1852, when he crossed the plains to Olympia, Washington. Here also he followed lumbering, being employed in a sawmill. In 1853 he took a donation land claim of 640 acres, at the same time pursuing his work in the mill at Tumwater. He continued to be thus occupied until the outbreak of the Indian war, when he was a volunteer in the service of his country, most of his service in the war being in eastern Washington, although he participated in one skirmish at Mound Prairie,in the western part of the Territory, doing efficient work in the protection of his adopted home. The remainder of his life was passed in agricultural pursuits, his death occuring in 1886, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He left a family and many friends to mourn his loss. He was a man of integrity, energy and ability, a good husband, indulgent father and public spirited citizen. He left a widow and three children: Lena E., now Mrs. JOHNSON; Lucy B. CROLL, who is attending the art school in San Francisco, and gives fair promise of becoming a celebrated artist; George CROLL is married and lives with his mother, the subject of this sketch. He has one daughter Dorothy CROLL, and thus may we find in this home four generations: Rhoda PACKWOOD, the great grandmother; Samantha CROLL, the grandmother; Mrs. George CROLL, the mother; and the little child, Dorothy CROLL,--a circumstance of unusual occurence. Mrs. Samantha CROLL has a large and finely cultivated farm, which is well stocked, and improved, with a good residence and substantial barns,--the whole breathing an air of thrift and contentment, the typical home of an intelligent and refined woman. Submitted by: Holly Vonderohe,