Stone says: "Born in Lyme Ct...died near Port Gibson."

The following was provided by Sheron Smith-Savage:

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YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1821

HORATIO NELSON SPENCER, the eighth child of Israel Selden and Temperance (Brockway) Spencer, of Hadlyme Parish, on the borders of Lyme and Haddam, Connecticut, was born on November 22, 1798.

At the time of graduation his father's previously ample resources were so reduced by business reverses, that the son was prompted to remove to Hillsboro, Jasper County, Georgia, where he taught for three years, while also studying law.

At the end of this period he was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession in Hillsboro until 1828, when he removed to Port Gibson, Mississippi.

In his practice at Port Gibson he was remarkably successful, and soon attained a high position at the bar. He thoroughly identified himself with the people of his adopted State, and was in hearty sympathy with its institutions.

He contributed largely to the religious and the material development of the community. For forty-five years he was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in Port Gibson, of which he was the chief support. He was the President of the Port Gibson Bank, and for a number of years President of the Port Gibson & Grand Gulf Railroad Company, one of the first railroads in the State, in the construction of which he was chiefly instrumental.

About 1836 he retired to his country-seat, Almont, and devoted himself mainly to that plantation. Prior to the Civil War he owned several large plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. The colored foreman at Almont, after the overseer had fled, held the negroes together, and at the end of the war turned over to Mr. Spencer $10,000 in cash, which he had realized from the sale of cotton.

He died at Almont on April 18, 1876, in his 78th year.

He married, in 1824, Theresa, daughter of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail (Goddard) Goddard, of Norwich, Vermont, who died in Port Gibson on March 21, 1830, at the age of 27, leaving one daughter.

On April 20, 1832, he married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Marshall, of Pine Ridge, near Natchez, Mississippi, but of Pennsylvania origin. She died at Almont on March 20, 1854, in her 45th year, having borne ten children, of whom four sons survived her. The eldest was graduated at Yale in 1857, and the third is a distinguished otologist.

Mr. Spencer gave careful attention to the education of his children, and in connection with a neighbor maintained a private school under superior teachers.

He married, thirdly, on January 24, 1856, Priscilla Turnbull, who survived him, dying on November 3, 1876.

—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, Connecticut, 1913), pp, 82-83.
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