A farmer.
"Eli was the firstborn, and only son, of Isham Spence and Nancy Redpath.
In 1843 he bought 80 acres from his father for $130. They lived just to the left [East] of our barn [torn down in about 2015 - Edwin], near an apple orchard. They used water from a spring at the pretty maple tree. Eli was bit by a rattlesnake when a boy. He ran some distance home, getting hot, causing the poison to spread faster. He had a limp the rest of his life. In his last sickness, Uncle Fed remembered going with his father [Johnson Minter Spence - Eli's oldest child] to see him. He asked for water, drank it and immediately died.
Afterwards his son Johnson built a small house for his mother [ Martha Ellen (Granny Pattie) Jackson] just the other side of our spring [ behind where Essie lived before she died]. Later she lived with her grandson George Spence, and was living with her son Isham on Max Creek, near Allisonia, when she died. She was buried there.
Eli married Granny Pattie in 1840. In the Jackson family bible her name was given as Patsy, born Nov 12, 1814. She died Apr 8, 1908.
She was the daughter of William and Jemima Burnette Jackson.
She had two daughters , Margaret Jane and Elizabeth Jemema, and a son, Major (Maje) before she married Eli.
They had several children, including 2 small children - Joseph T. born 1854 and Martha E. born 1857, that died before the 1870 census.
"The childrens graves are not marked although I'm sure they are buried here."
(per Essie Spence Goad's notes - Edwin Goad 49608635)
"Eli was the firstborn, and only son, of Isham Spence and Nancy Redpath.
In 1843 he bought 80 acres from his father for $130. They lived just to the left [East] of our barn [torn down in about 2015 - Edwin], near an apple orchard. They used water from a spring at the pretty maple tree. Eli was bit by a rattlesnake when a boy. He ran some distance home, getting hot, causing the poison to spread faster. He had a limp the rest of his life. In his last sickness, Uncle Fed remembered going with his father [Johnson Minter Spence - Eli's oldest child] to see him. He asked for water, drank it and immediately died.
Afterwards his son Johnson built a small house for his mother [ Martha Ellen (Granny Pattie) Jackson] just the other side of our spring [ behind where Essie lived before she died]. Later she lived with her grandson George Spence, and was living with her son Isham on Max Creek, near Allisonia, when she died. She was buried there.
Eli married Granny Pattie in 1840. In the Jackson family bible her name was given as Patsy, born Nov 12, 1814. She died Apr 8, 1908.
She was the daughter of William and Jemima Burnette Jackson.
She had two daughters , Margaret Jane and Elizabeth Jemema, and a son, Major (Maje) before she married Eli.
They had several children, including 2 small children - Joseph T. born 1854 and Martha E. born 1857, that died before the 1870 census.
"The childrens graves are not marked although I'm sure they are buried here."
(per Essie Spence Goad's notes - Edwin Goad 49608635)
A farmer.
"Eli was the firstborn, and only son, of Isham Spence and Nancy Redpath.
In 1843 he bought 80 acres from his father for $130. They lived just to the left [East] of our barn [torn down in about 2015 - Edwin], near an apple orchard. They used water from a spring at the pretty maple tree. Eli was bit by a rattlesnake when a boy. He ran some distance home, getting hot, causing the poison to spread faster. He had a limp the rest of his life. In his last sickness, Uncle Fed remembered going with his father [Johnson Minter Spence - Eli's oldest child] to see him. He asked for water, drank it and immediately died.
Afterwards his son Johnson built a small house for his mother [ Martha Ellen (Granny Pattie) Jackson] just the other side of our spring [ behind where Essie lived before she died]. Later she lived with her grandson George Spence, and was living with her son Isham on Max Creek, near Allisonia, when she died. She was buried there.
Eli married Granny Pattie in 1840. In the Jackson family bible her name was given as Patsy, born Nov 12, 1814. She died Apr 8, 1908.
She was the daughter of William and Jemima Burnette Jackson.
She had two daughters , Margaret Jane and Elizabeth Jemema, and a son, Major (Maje) before she married Eli.
They had several children, including 2 small children - Joseph T. born 1854 and Martha E. born 1857, that died before the 1870 census.
"The childrens graves are not marked although I'm sure they are buried here."
(per Essie Spence Goad's notes - Edwin Goad 49608635)
"Eli was the firstborn, and only son, of Isham Spence and Nancy Redpath.
In 1843 he bought 80 acres from his father for $130. They lived just to the left [East] of our barn [torn down in about 2015 - Edwin], near an apple orchard. They used water from a spring at the pretty maple tree. Eli was bit by a rattlesnake when a boy. He ran some distance home, getting hot, causing the poison to spread faster. He had a limp the rest of his life. In his last sickness, Uncle Fed remembered going with his father [Johnson Minter Spence - Eli's oldest child] to see him. He asked for water, drank it and immediately died.
Afterwards his son Johnson built a small house for his mother [ Martha Ellen (Granny Pattie) Jackson] just the other side of our spring [ behind where Essie lived before she died]. Later she lived with her grandson George Spence, and was living with her son Isham on Max Creek, near Allisonia, when she died. She was buried there.
Eli married Granny Pattie in 1840. In the Jackson family bible her name was given as Patsy, born Nov 12, 1814. She died Apr 8, 1908.
She was the daughter of William and Jemima Burnette Jackson.
She had two daughters , Margaret Jane and Elizabeth Jemema, and a son, Major (Maje) before she married Eli.
They had several children, including 2 small children - Joseph T. born 1854 and Martha E. born 1857, that died before the 1870 census.
"The childrens graves are not marked although I'm sure they are buried here."
(per Essie Spence Goad's notes - Edwin Goad 49608635)
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