Brief Life History of Spears
When Spears was born about 1819, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel Spears, was 60 and his mother, Rebecca Smith, was 35.
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Spear , with post-medieval excrescent -s. The name has sometimes been confused with Pearse .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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