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| Clara Catherine Spawr 1859-1943 Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Hudson, Illinois Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Lexington, and Chicago, Ill. PHOTO |
Valentine L. Spawr 1832(?)-1882 McLean County, Illinois Bazaar, Kansas Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas Gilman, Illinois DRAWING |
Peter R. Spawr 1809-1876 Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania McLean County, Illinois Clarksville, Iowa Neosho Falls, Kansas DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS ("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 DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS |
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+Catharine Livingston 1800-1862 Virginia Perry Township, Ohio Hudson, Illinois |
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when ordering through my store: The Good Old Times in McLean County
by Dr. E. Duis History
of
Peter and Mary Best Fourteenth Iowa Infantry (Valentine
L. Spawr's regiment in the
Civil War) Fourteenth
Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry (historical sketch) Excerpts
from Valentine L. Spawr Civil War diary with current photos Sketch
of Fort Halleck, Columbus, Kentucky, during Civil War 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 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 Feb. 3, 2010 Valentine Spawr's diary Last year Chad Spawr sent me photos he took at Columbus, Kentucky. I've just created a page to show some of them and have used excerpts from Valentine's diary to illustrate what they had to do with his time there. In the process of checking facts and spellings on line, I discovered Chad's full diary transcription is back on line again. Oct. 20, 2009 Descendant lists I've posted updated descendant reports for Peter and Elizabeth Spawr and James and Catharine Neighbarger. May 23, 2009 The Griffiths I've spent some time browsing around the new records index search at Familysearch.org. According to Clyde Neibarger's research, Irena Neighbarger was married to John W. Griffith before she married Valentine Spawr. She also supposedly had two children, James Ross Griffith and Amanda Adelaide Griffith, both born after 1850. Until today, all that fit. John Griffith was in the James Neighbarger household in the 1850 census. Clara's sister, Ella, talked of two step-children (of Irena Neighbarger and Valentine Spawr). And my aunts remembered visiting cousin Jesse (Payne) Peterson in Iowa; Jesse was the daughter of Amanda Griffith and Jesse Payne,and Jesse's mother was the sister, or half-sister, of Clara Spawr Barrows. Finally, I have a photo of Roy Barrows and another man labeled "cousin Jimmy Payne." Jesse had a brother named James. So I'm sure Amanda (and her brother James) were part of the family. I've always assumed John Griffith died and that's why Irena married Valentine sometime in the 1850s, probably after her family moved from Licking County, Ohio, to McLean Co., Ill., where the Spawrs lived. Divorce was supposed to be rare then, wasn't it? But I've always wondered why the two children weren't with Irena and Valentine in any of the censuses. I found them today. Amanda and James were living in McLean Co., Ill., in the 1860 census with none other than their still-alive father, John W. Griffith! He gave his age as 36, and his wife was Mary, age 21. They had a 9-month-old baby in addition to 12-year-old James Ross Griffith and 14-year-old Amanda Griffith. Now, if James and Amanda were 12 and 14 in 1860, they would have been 2 and 4 in 1850. So why weren't they in the Neighbarger home with John W. Griffith and Irena Neighbarger (Griffith?). I searched for them every way I could think of in the 1850 census for Licking Co., Ohio, and came up with nothing. If they were someone else's kids, why did Irena's grandchildren think of them as cousins or at least step-cousins? I found some later census records that I'm pretty sure show that James Ross Griffith married a woman named Sarah. They had a son named Frank. I'll try to pursue that line, but it's daunting because Griffith is such a common name. Maybe someday a descendant of one of these people will come forward and solve the mystery! April 7, 2009 I found a book on line that describes the activities of Valentine L. Spawr's regiment (Co. C, 14th Iowa Infantry) in the Civil War. CREDITS
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