Samuel Donaldson Brode Samuel Donaldson Brode, the first child of Jonathan Brode and Sarah Donaldson was born August 27, 1820 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and died in Schellburg in the same county, February 20, 1864. He married about 1848, Catherine Fluke, daughter of Jacob Fluke, who was born December 29, 1826 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and died November 26, 1872. Seven children were born to them as follows: Wilson Monroe, George Watson, Virginia Catherine, Charles Wesley, Sarah Jane Woodward, John Edward and Anna Elizabeth. Virginia and Sarah died young. The others grew to maturity, married and had children. Samuel Brode was five feet ten inches in height and his average weight was about 175 pounds. He had black hair and dark brown eyes. He was a millwright by trade and was rated as a first class workman. He built flour mills and saw mills. He was of an inventive turn of mind and invented a smut mill for cleaning wheat (U.S. Patent No. 40,238, October 13, 1863). The extensive production of these machines was interfered with by the destruction of the manufacturing plant in the burning of Chambersburg in the Jackson raid up the Cumberland Valley in 1863 and by his sickness and death in 1864. The machines did good work and some were still in use as late as 1886. He suffered from bronchial trouble and also severely from rheumatism. He was much relieved of the latter after taking some electrical treatments which were just being introduced at that time. His ill health and early death are attributed to the dust and exposure incident to his work. He was born near Saxton, formerly called Stonerstown, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and spent practically all of his life in that county, living first at Martinsburg (now in Blair County) and later in St. Clairsville, formerly called Buckstown, for a short time and then moving to Schellburg in 1854 where he lived up to the time of his death. A year after his death, the wife and the children moved to Yellow Creek, the former home of his wife. He became a member of the German Evangelical Church, May 9, 1837. (Note: The baptismal certificate gives data with reference to the birth and marriage of his parents.) He was called to the army but was exempted on account of his ill health. The family was in very moderate circumstances at the time of his death and the mother had the misfortune to lose $600 of her money through a bank failure. The boys who were able had to find work away from home. After the mother's death in 1872, the family scattered westward.