h/o Louisa Mendenhall.

Birth: Half Moon Valley, Centre county, Pennsylvania.

Census: 1850, age 49 Halfmoon township, Centre county, Pennsylvania with seven month pregnent 42 y/o wife and eleven children.

As a pioneer during the national financial turmoil moved to Territory of Kansas before 1857 Census, before town of Empoia was created, with at least one daughter married in Pennsylvania.

Census: 1857, in Emporia township, Breckenridge county, Territory of Kansas.

Kansas Territory, once known as part of "The Great American Desert", was created 30 May 1854, town of Emporia created in 1858, prohibiting gambling and liquor, same year the 1st school started. Statehood was attained 29 January 1861, Breckenridge county organized in 1855, became Lyon county 6 February 1862 and the Homestaed Act was enacted 20 May 1863 all in the then wild frontier.

Census: 1860, age 60 in Emporia township, Breckenridge county, Territory of Kansas, without wife, with five kids, two of them school teachers.

Census (Kansas): 1865, age 65 in Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas with wife & five kids.

Reportedly on August 2, 1870 wife Louisa, with several others, purchased plots in the one year old Maplewood cemetery.

Death: in Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas

Burial: Recorded as 23 DEC 1867, being before cemetery was named Maplewood. Original marker broken and weathered, replacement installed noting them as Pioneers of 1857.

Father: John Spencer (1754-1820)
Mother: Susannah Lightfoot (1767-1834)

Known siblings, to wit:
Hannah.
Samuel.
Aquilla.

Marriage: Louisa Mendenhall b: about 1808/10 in Milesburg, Centre county, Pennsylvania
Married: 5 JAN 1830 in Milesburg, Centre county, Pennsylvania

Known Children

John Mendenhall Spencer b: 2 OCT 1830 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Susannah Lightfoot Spencer (twin) b: 15 MAR 1832 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Sarah Fisher Spencer (twin) b: 15 MAR 1832 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Mary Spencer b: 2 FEB 1833 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Adaline Spencer b: 2 OCT 1835 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Amanda Louisa Spencer b: 22 FEB 1837 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Elizabeth C. Spencer b: 19 SEP 1838 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Elmira Florence Spencer b: 21 OCT 1840 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Isaac Newton Spencer b: 5 MAY 1842 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Lucretia Mott Spencer b: 5 OCT 1843 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Margaret Louisa Spencer b: 1 MAR 1847 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Martha Priscilla Spencer b: 7 DEC 1850 in Half Moon Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania