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Re: Looking for Spires ancestors

pdsain  (View posts) Posted: 25 May 2007 3:14AM GMT
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http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/datab...
Illinois Marriages -

SPIRES, HENRY T & ELLIOTT, ISABELLA R (MISS)
03/29/1876 Book 007 Page 0019 License # 00005553
MONTGOMERY County


Deaths -
SPIRES, ISABELLA REBECCA F/W UNK 0960112
1923-05-18 WAYNE LAMARD TWP

Most of the 1890 census burned in 1921 and I did not find the Spires' in the 1880 census. No other Spires' married in Montgomery county.

Several Elliott's listed as Rebecca but no Belle or Isabella born Ohio about 1858.

I believe I found Henry Spires in Morgan county in the 1850 record transcribed as Heny Spenes. You will find the below listed as Spires in the 1870 Franklin, Morgan Co IL census except for Henry who I did not find in 1870 at appx age of 29 .

James Spenes age 52 born NC 1798 aka John Spires
Melinda age 46 born SC 1804
John age 15 born IL 1835
James age 12 born IL 1838
Ann age 11 born IL 1839
Henry age 9 born IL 1841
Harvey age 6 born IL 1844

1860; Census Place: Franklin, Morgan, Illinois; Roll: M653_213; Page: 620; Image: 299.
John SPENS 62 NC
Melinda A SPENS 51 SC
Henry SPENS 16 1844 IL
Mary E Spens 8 1852 IL
Henry M Spens 18 1842 IL

1900; Census Place: Bedford, Wayne, Illinois; Roll: T623 350; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 94.
H T Spires born Apr 1841 IL married 24 yrs parents KY farm property mortgaged
Belle wife 8/1858 OH parents OH mother of 6 children, all are living
Clarence 7/1880 - Ramsey Co MN 1920 ?
Wesley 7/1882
James 12/1886 - went to Iowa
Lewis A 4/1891 - wound up in Indianapolis, Marion Co IN by 1920 as Louis A Spires, two sons born IL 1915 and 1918. Married Ruth Ann Emmons, 1912 in Wayne Co IL.

Two children born to H T and "Belle" 1877-1879 already married by 1900 unless information was incorrect regarding number of children born to H T and Isabella.

Name: Isabella G Spires
[Isabella R Spires]
Age in 1910: 67
Estimated birth year: abt 1843
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Ireland
Mother's Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1910: Bedford, Wayne, Illinois
Marital Status: Widowed
mother of 6 children all are living

WW I Draft Registration cards, 1917-1918

Name: Wesley Newton Spires
City: Kansas City
County: Jackson
State: Missouri
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1882
Race: White
Roll: 1683384
DraftBoard: 11
sales mgr for Cornell? Wood Prod. Co, Chicago, IL
nearest relative: Della M Spires, wife
short/stout, gray eyes, lt brown hair
9-9-1918

Name: James Virgil Spires
Address: Walnut Grove
County: Redwood
State: Minnesota
Birthplace: Jacksonville, Illinois;United States of America
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1886
Race: Caucasian (White)
Roll: 1675777
DraftBoard: 0
self employed farmer with wife and children
medium/medium, grey eyes, brown hair, partly bald
5 June 1917

Name: Louis Spires
Address: 1104 Oakland Ave, Indianapolis
County: Marion
State: Indiana
Birthplace: Jacksonville, Illinois;United States of America
Birth Date: 8 Apr 1891
Race: Caucasian (White)
Roll: 1504014
DraftBoard: 1
traveling salesman, Murphy Varnish, Chicago, IL
medium/medium, blue eyes, brown hair, partly bald

Jacksonville is in Morgan county IL where John Spires married in 1833 to Malinda Sturgis. This couple is in the 1880 Morgan county census with other Spires'.

Good Luck ! Attaching James V Spires registration card.
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