Mary Martha Spears

Brief Life History of Mary Martha

When Mary Martha Spears was born on 25 October 1858, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Whitt Spears, was 30 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Gaines, was 31. She had at least 1 daughter with J W Spears. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died in 1901, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Floyd, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

J W Spears
1898–
Mary Martha Spears
1858–1901
Emma Spears
1892–1962

Sources (7)

  • Mary M Spears in household of Thomas W Spears, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Mary M. Spears, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
  • Mary Marthy Spears, "Find a Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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