T. J. SPENCER, ADAIR COUNTIAN 69 YEARS, DIES
Now Only One Civil War Veteran Left At Brashear.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., April 7. — Brashear's population includes only one veteran of the Civil War, following the death in Hot Springs, Ark., last Sunday of Thomas J. Spencer, 99, who succumbed to infirmities of advanced age.
Mr. Spencer's body was brought to the Easley undertaking establishment here where it will lie in state until Sunday afternoon at 2:45 when it will be taken to the M. E. Church for funeral services conducted by the Rev. J. H. Lane. Burial will be made in the Brashear cemetery.
Full military rite will be conducted by the Edina American Legion post. Mr. Spencer was long a member of the Brashear post of the Grand Army of the Republic and took pride in the military connections of his family. His father and a brother, Walter, also served in the Civil War, the brother dying in service. Mr. Spencer's son, Walter, served in the Spanish-American war and a nephew, Ben Spencer, of Kirksville is a veteran of the World War.
He was born into a family of 11 children in Ripley county. Ind., March 30, 1844, a son of James M. and Ruth Craig Spencer. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1856 and settled on a farm 1 mile west of the present site of Brashear, the dead village of Paultown then being the trading point, where he lived until his marriage on Aug. 24. 1873, to Martha E. Howerton. They established a home on a farm 1 mile north of Brashear, where they lived continuously until Mrs. Spencer's death on Oct. 20, 1925. Since then he has made his home the greater part of the time with his children, Earl and Miss Mable, at Hot Springs.
Surviving are three sons, Walter E., Washington, D. C.; Robert, Brashear; Earl, Hot Springs, and Miss Mabel, Hot Springs; two sister, Miss Mariah Spencer and Mrs. Phillip Miller, of Chetopia, Kans.; two grandchildren, Miss Glayds [sic] Spencer, Brashear, and Miss Birdie Spencer, Washington, D. C. Mr. Spencer had been a member of the M. E. church for 36 years.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 07 Apr 1933, Fri • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
Now Only One Civil War Veteran Left At Brashear.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., April 7. — Brashear's population includes only one veteran of the Civil War, following the death in Hot Springs, Ark., last Sunday of Thomas J. Spencer, 99, who succumbed to infirmities of advanced age.
Mr. Spencer's body was brought to the Easley undertaking establishment here where it will lie in state until Sunday afternoon at 2:45 when it will be taken to the M. E. Church for funeral services conducted by the Rev. J. H. Lane. Burial will be made in the Brashear cemetery.
Full military rite will be conducted by the Edina American Legion post. Mr. Spencer was long a member of the Brashear post of the Grand Army of the Republic and took pride in the military connections of his family. His father and a brother, Walter, also served in the Civil War, the brother dying in service. Mr. Spencer's son, Walter, served in the Spanish-American war and a nephew, Ben Spencer, of Kirksville is a veteran of the World War.
He was born into a family of 11 children in Ripley county. Ind., March 30, 1844, a son of James M. and Ruth Craig Spencer. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1856 and settled on a farm 1 mile west of the present site of Brashear, the dead village of Paultown then being the trading point, where he lived until his marriage on Aug. 24. 1873, to Martha E. Howerton. They established a home on a farm 1 mile north of Brashear, where they lived continuously until Mrs. Spencer's death on Oct. 20, 1925. Since then he has made his home the greater part of the time with his children, Earl and Miss Mable, at Hot Springs.
Surviving are three sons, Walter E., Washington, D. C.; Robert, Brashear; Earl, Hot Springs, and Miss Mabel, Hot Springs; two sister, Miss Mariah Spencer and Mrs. Phillip Miller, of Chetopia, Kans.; two grandchildren, Miss Glayds [sic] Spencer, Brashear, and Miss Birdie Spencer, Washington, D. C. Mr. Spencer had been a member of the M. E. church for 36 years.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 07 Apr 1933, Fri • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
T. J. SPENCER, ADAIR COUNTIAN 69 YEARS, DIES
Now Only One Civil War Veteran Left At Brashear.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., April 7. — Brashear's population includes only one veteran of the Civil War, following the death in Hot Springs, Ark., last Sunday of Thomas J. Spencer, 99, who succumbed to infirmities of advanced age.
Mr. Spencer's body was brought to the Easley undertaking establishment here where it will lie in state until Sunday afternoon at 2:45 when it will be taken to the M. E. Church for funeral services conducted by the Rev. J. H. Lane. Burial will be made in the Brashear cemetery.
Full military rite will be conducted by the Edina American Legion post. Mr. Spencer was long a member of the Brashear post of the Grand Army of the Republic and took pride in the military connections of his family. His father and a brother, Walter, also served in the Civil War, the brother dying in service. Mr. Spencer's son, Walter, served in the Spanish-American war and a nephew, Ben Spencer, of Kirksville is a veteran of the World War.
He was born into a family of 11 children in Ripley county. Ind., March 30, 1844, a son of James M. and Ruth Craig Spencer. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1856 and settled on a farm 1 mile west of the present site of Brashear, the dead village of Paultown then being the trading point, where he lived until his marriage on Aug. 24. 1873, to Martha E. Howerton. They established a home on a farm 1 mile north of Brashear, where they lived continuously until Mrs. Spencer's death on Oct. 20, 1925. Since then he has made his home the greater part of the time with his children, Earl and Miss Mable, at Hot Springs.
Surviving are three sons, Walter E., Washington, D. C.; Robert, Brashear; Earl, Hot Springs, and Miss Mabel, Hot Springs; two sister, Miss Mariah Spencer and Mrs. Phillip Miller, of Chetopia, Kans.; two grandchildren, Miss Glayds [sic] Spencer, Brashear, and Miss Birdie Spencer, Washington, D. C. Mr. Spencer had been a member of the M. E. church for 36 years.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 07 Apr 1933, Fri • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
Now Only One Civil War Veteran Left At Brashear.
Special to The Daily Express.
Brashear, Mo., April 7. — Brashear's population includes only one veteran of the Civil War, following the death in Hot Springs, Ark., last Sunday of Thomas J. Spencer, 99, who succumbed to infirmities of advanced age.
Mr. Spencer's body was brought to the Easley undertaking establishment here where it will lie in state until Sunday afternoon at 2:45 when it will be taken to the M. E. Church for funeral services conducted by the Rev. J. H. Lane. Burial will be made in the Brashear cemetery.
Full military rite will be conducted by the Edina American Legion post. Mr. Spencer was long a member of the Brashear post of the Grand Army of the Republic and took pride in the military connections of his family. His father and a brother, Walter, also served in the Civil War, the brother dying in service. Mr. Spencer's son, Walter, served in the Spanish-American war and a nephew, Ben Spencer, of Kirksville is a veteran of the World War.
He was born into a family of 11 children in Ripley county. Ind., March 30, 1844, a son of James M. and Ruth Craig Spencer. He came with his parents to Missouri in 1856 and settled on a farm 1 mile west of the present site of Brashear, the dead village of Paultown then being the trading point, where he lived until his marriage on Aug. 24. 1873, to Martha E. Howerton. They established a home on a farm 1 mile north of Brashear, where they lived continuously until Mrs. Spencer's death on Oct. 20, 1925. Since then he has made his home the greater part of the time with his children, Earl and Miss Mable, at Hot Springs.
Surviving are three sons, Walter E., Washington, D. C.; Robert, Brashear; Earl, Hot Springs, and Miss Mabel, Hot Springs; two sister, Miss Mariah Spencer and Mrs. Phillip Miller, of Chetopia, Kans.; two grandchildren, Miss Glayds [sic] Spencer, Brashear, and Miss Birdie Spencer, Washington, D. C. Mr. Spencer had been a member of the M. E. church for 36 years.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 07 Apr 1933, Fri • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributor: Pam Witherow)
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