Aged 76 Years
John Morris Springer was the second son and second child of the Rev. James Dobbins and Nancy Elizabeth (Morris) Springer.
He was born near Mt. Vernon in Lawrence County, Missouri. His father was an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On October 26, 1887, he married Anna Rosalie McCracken in Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri. They were parents of two sons: Clyde C. (1889-1975) and Rex Q. (1891-1961). Rosalie died in 1891, about three months after the birth of their second son. The exact date of John Springer's migration to Colorado is not known, but census records show him in Rocky Ford, Otero County, in 1910. During his life time he maintained contact with his relatives in southwest Missouri. When he died in 1944 Maxine (Springer) Wilson, his niece, and this writer (aged 8 months) traveled by train to Colorado to attend his funeral.
Jim Wilson
{Email Message from Leon Barton, Jan. 7, 2011}
I found John M. Springer. He is buried in the same burial plot as Clyde Springer in the Riverside Cemetery. When I photographed the entire Riverside Cemetery, I also took photos for the cemetery directory. John is listed in the directory so he either doesn't have a grave marker or the stone is in such bad condition that it can't be read.
Addendum: Stone placed September 2015 by Jim L Wilson.
John Morris Springer was the second son and second child of the Rev. James Dobbins and Nancy Elizabeth (Morris) Springer.
He was born near Mt. Vernon in Lawrence County, Missouri. His father was an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On October 26, 1887, he married Anna Rosalie McCracken in Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri. They were parents of two sons: Clyde C. (1889-1975) and Rex Q. (1891-1961). Rosalie died in 1891, about three months after the birth of their second son. The exact date of John Springer's migration to Colorado is not known, but census records show him in Rocky Ford, Otero County, in 1910. During his life time he maintained contact with his relatives in southwest Missouri. When he died in 1944 Maxine (Springer) Wilson, his niece, and this writer (aged 8 months) traveled by train to Colorado to attend his funeral.
Jim Wilson
{Email Message from Leon Barton, Jan. 7, 2011}
I found John M. Springer. He is buried in the same burial plot as Clyde Springer in the Riverside Cemetery. When I photographed the entire Riverside Cemetery, I also took photos for the cemetery directory. John is listed in the directory so he either doesn't have a grave marker or the stone is in such bad condition that it can't be read.
Addendum: Stone placed September 2015 by Jim L Wilson.
Aged 76 Years
John Morris Springer was the second son and second child of the Rev. James Dobbins and Nancy Elizabeth (Morris) Springer.
He was born near Mt. Vernon in Lawrence County, Missouri. His father was an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On October 26, 1887, he married Anna Rosalie McCracken in Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri. They were parents of two sons: Clyde C. (1889-1975) and Rex Q. (1891-1961). Rosalie died in 1891, about three months after the birth of their second son. The exact date of John Springer's migration to Colorado is not known, but census records show him in Rocky Ford, Otero County, in 1910. During his life time he maintained contact with his relatives in southwest Missouri. When he died in 1944 Maxine (Springer) Wilson, his niece, and this writer (aged 8 months) traveled by train to Colorado to attend his funeral.
Jim Wilson
{Email Message from Leon Barton, Jan. 7, 2011}
I found John M. Springer. He is buried in the same burial plot as Clyde Springer in the Riverside Cemetery. When I photographed the entire Riverside Cemetery, I also took photos for the cemetery directory. John is listed in the directory so he either doesn't have a grave marker or the stone is in such bad condition that it can't be read.
Addendum: Stone placed September 2015 by Jim L Wilson.
John Morris Springer was the second son and second child of the Rev. James Dobbins and Nancy Elizabeth (Morris) Springer.
He was born near Mt. Vernon in Lawrence County, Missouri. His father was an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On October 26, 1887, he married Anna Rosalie McCracken in Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri. They were parents of two sons: Clyde C. (1889-1975) and Rex Q. (1891-1961). Rosalie died in 1891, about three months after the birth of their second son. The exact date of John Springer's migration to Colorado is not known, but census records show him in Rocky Ford, Otero County, in 1910. During his life time he maintained contact with his relatives in southwest Missouri. When he died in 1944 Maxine (Springer) Wilson, his niece, and this writer (aged 8 months) traveled by train to Colorado to attend his funeral.
Jim Wilson
{Email Message from Leon Barton, Jan. 7, 2011}
I found John M. Springer. He is buried in the same burial plot as Clyde Springer in the Riverside Cemetery. When I photographed the entire Riverside Cemetery, I also took photos for the cemetery directory. John is listed in the directory so he either doesn't have a grave marker or the stone is in such bad condition that it can't be read.
Addendum: Stone placed September 2015 by Jim L Wilson.
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