On 27 Oct 1872 when Samuel Columbus was 22, he married Mary Ann Hipp, daughter of Levi W. Hipp & Violet Matilda Roberts, in Brooksville, Blount Co, AL. Born on 27 Sep 1849 in Buncombe Co, NC (near Asheville, on French Broad River). Mary Ann died in Birmingham, Jefferson Co, AL, on 15 Jun 1914; she was 64. Buried in Albertville, Marshall Co, AL (Memory Hill Cemetery).