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| Clara Catherine Spawr 1859-1943 Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Hudson, Illinois Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Lexington, and Chicago, Ill. 8PHOTO |
Valentine L. Spawr 1832(?)-1882 McLean County, Illinois Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Illinois 8DRAWING |
Peter R. Spawr 1809-1876 Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania McLean County, Illinois Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas 8DESCENDANTS 8ANCESTORS ("SPAWR FAMILY OF AMERICA") |
| +Ernest Charles Barrows | +Elizabeth Messer
1813-1895 McLean County, Illinois Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas |
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| +Irena Margaret Neighbarger 1827-1877 Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Illinois |
James Neighbarger 1801-1865 Shenandoah Co., Virginia Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois 8DESCENDANTS 8ANCESTORS |
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| +Catharine Livingston 1800-1862 Virginia Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois |
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PHOTOS AND LINKS TO RELATED SITES Valentine
L. Spawr's Civil War diary Marriage license of Ernest Barrows and Catherine Spawr. Barrows
Family Photo including sisters Clara and Elizabeth Spawr The
Spawr Family of America Excerpt
from History of Money Creek Neosho
Falls, Kansas Peter and
Elizabeth
Spawr, the children they still had at home—Margaret and Joseph, their
grandson Isaac, their son Valentine and his wife Irena and their
daughters, and two of Irena's brothers—Jacob, George, and Abraham
Neighbarger— and their families moved to Neosho Falls in the late
1860s. Peter, Elizabeth, and Joseph Spawr died there, as did Jacob and
George Neighbarger. Valentine and his family moved to Gilman, Illinois,
in 1876, and Abraham Neighbarger and his family moved to the Topeka
area. Cutler's
History of Kansas, Woodson County Map of Neosho
Falls, Woodson County, Kansas Woodson
County Rural Schools (Woodson County, KS, GenWeb site)
Memories of a woman who moved to Kansas in 1857 and settled near Neosho Falls with her new husband in 1860. (If you find this page interesting, click "next" at the bottom to read about the next 20 years in Woodson County.) Neosho Falls Today Photos from my May 2007 visit--Cedarvale Cemetery; Spawr and Neighbarger graves; Spawr farm site, Neosho River. United Brethren in Christ Church Isaac Messer was a United Brethren minister, and the Spawrs in McLean County, Illinois, were members of the church. In a history of the Money Creek township (Lexington centennial book), it says, "Probably the first preaching in the Township was by Isaac Messer, a local man belonging to the church of the United Brethren in Christ; with meetings being held at the Valentine Spawr residence" (see the link above for Excerpt from History of Money Creek.) As we know, Valentine Spawr's son Peter married Isaac Messer's daughter Elizabeth in 1829. A church was not actually built until 1856. I recently visited the United Brethren Web site and found the history of the church quite interesting. In some ways it parallels the Spawr and Messer families (German, started in Pennsylvania). I learned that the religion forbade owning slaves from 1821 on, and the church worked to abolish slavery. I have not had any success in trying to obtain a marriage record for Valentine and Irena Spawr from the church; I have not even been able to learn whether they kept registers like the Catholics and Lutherans. It's possible they did not since in the early days they did not even have church buildings. The United Brethren built a church in Neosho Falls, and when you look at a map of where their churches are distributed now, you will see a swath there in southeastern Kansas. Elizabeth Spawer Messer was still a member when she died in 1895, but I don't know whether her son Valentine stayed in the religion. I'm sure his daughter Clara (my great-grandmother) was not a member. Nola
Miles Rogers' Web site Neighbarger
Grave Photos NOTE: I have removed my
links to
the
LDS
ancestral files because they don't work any more. However, you should
be
able to find ancestral files for Elizabeth Messer and James Neighbarger
by visiting the LDS site
and
searching for their names. A Note about Photos We're sharing our photos with you--will you share yours with us? Our ancestors probably would have liked all of their descendants to have everything they left, and with the copying technology we have now, it's possible for all of us to have copies of all the photos and documents. Even if you don't have a scanner, you can use a machine at a store to put a copy of a photo on a CD that you can send by e-mail. LATEST ON THE SPAWR AND NEIGHBARGER BRANCHES Sept. 13, 2007 Clyde Neighbarger, who lived from 1900 to 1965, was James and Catharine Neighbarger's great-grandson. His grandfather, Abraham, was my great-great-grandmother Irena Margaret Neighbarger's brother. A few years ago I was thrilled to find my Neighbarger ancestors in an LDS Ancestral File, and I learned that Clyde Neibarger was the original source of most of the information. I learned about Irena's first marriage from Clyde's work, and that is how I was able to research what happened to her daughter Amanda Griffith and her descendants. (Still looking for the same information for Amanda's brother James Griffith.) Clyde also listed Irena's marriage to Valentine "Spaur," and ever since I saw that I have hoped to learn the source of Clyde's information for that marriage. I still have never been able to find out a date or location on my own. A few years ago one of my sources sent me a photocopy of a letter Clyde sent to a relative in 1941. Being familiar with his work, I was thrilled to possess a document he had written (typed) and signed. However, I think it introduced an error into my data. He wrote that "Abraham Neibarger was my grandfather" AND that " Abraham Neibarger was my father" who had died in 1909 when Clyde was 10. The Ancestral File said Clyde's father was Abraham's son Benjamin Garrett Neibarger, not Abraham, Jr. However, my Neibarger researcher role model wouldn't make a mistake about his own father, would he? I created a new son named Abraham for Abraham and assigned Clyde as a son. The other day I received an obituary (thank you, Jim L.!) for Ada Neibarger Hodges of Jefferson County, Kansas. It listed Clyde as one of her brothers. But Ada's father was Benjamin, not Abraham. Another brother listed in the obituary was also Benjamin's son. After scouring the LDS site, WorldConnect (which has files on the family citing the Compendium of American Genealogy), and the 1870 and 1880 censuses, I have concluded that Clyde did make a mistake in his 1941 letter. Abraham Neibarger did not have a son named Clyde; Clyde was Benjamin's son. I have just updated the information on the Neighbarger descendants page. I revised only the the affected families, so you might notice some discrepancies in numbers until I get around to updating the entire file. This entry has probably put you to sleep by now, but if it hasn't, I have a request. If anyone knows where Clyde's genealogy research papers are, especially if they are in the possession of anyone who would look at them for me, would you please let me know? A few years ago I did find the "Clyde Neibarger papers" on line at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. I had a friend check them for me, and they were only Clyde's journalism and music papers. CREDITS
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