In Sam’s personal life, Sam dated many lovely nice girls. While in his early twenties he had dated a girl named Dorothy Hayes, who was sister to Virginia, the girl that his older brother David was dating. However Gramps had impressed on both boys that they shouldn’t go crazy and just fall head over heels for the first blonde that they met and should proceed with caution as they had a responsibility to their mother. Both boys took this to heart and always did take care of their mother. David married Virginia in 1952 and her younger sister Dorothy visited often. Gramps kept telling Sam that Dorothy was the right girl for him and eventually Sam and Dorothy were married in 1955. Sam told her after they were wed what his grandfather had told him and she asked "why didn’t you listen to him sooner?" David and Virginia had 3 girls, while Sam and Dorothy had 2 boys, who grew up together almost as brothers and sisters