Samuel (Shmuel) Samuels passed away in 1936 at the age of 73 and is buried in the Bloemhof Cemetery. He was a widower, and his three children, mentioned on his tombstone, are Michael, Lou (Louis), and Abraham. He was listed as a diamond digger. According to research by Rodney Lichtenstein, the family name was originally Bazzan before it was changed to Samuels. Samuel Samuels's wife, Dora (née Horn), passed away in Johannesburg in 1916. The couple initially migrated to Australia, where their eldest child, Michael, was born in 1884.