Person:Elizabeth Polk (5)

... [Spencer] married Elizabeth Polk, daughter of the noted Indian fighter Capt. Charles Polk, in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky on January 18, 1793. Spencer and his wife moved to Vincennes, Indiana. ...

... Spencer and his wife ran "The Green Leaf Tavern," in their large log home on Oak Street. Governor William Henry Harrison and Lieutenant Governor Ratliff Boon stayed there when they came on official business, as did delegates to the 1816 Indiana Constitution Convention. ...

... Spencer's widow continued operating The Green Leaf Tavern. When she married William Boone, she changed the name to the "Billy Boone Tavern". However, the marriage was short lived and she divorced Boone in 1829. ...

16 Apr 1816 Deed of Gift: William Boone and Elizabeth Boone his wife (late Elizabeth Spencer) of Harrison County in the Indiana Territory of the one part and George C. Spencer, James M. Spencer, Jane Spencer, Metilda (?) Spencer and Sarah Spencer of same place of the other part. Witnesseth that the said William Boone and Elizabeth Boone for and in consideration of the natural love and Effection which they bear towards the said George, James M., Jane, Metilda and Sarah hath given conveyed and confirmed to same lots in the town of Corydon known by numbers 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,53 and 54 deeded to the said Elizabeth Boone (late Elizabeth Spencer) by Henry Heth and Rebekah his wife by deed bearing date 28 Jul 1813. Signed Will Boone and Elizabeth Boone. Recorded 16 April 1816
[Harrison Co. IN Deed Bk A p. 213]

OBITUARY
Corydon, Indiana, March 21, 1848
DIED, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Delilah Slaughter, in Corydon, on the 27th day of November, 1847, Mrs. ELIZABETH SPENCER, relict of the late Capt. Spier Spencer, aged 70 years. The deceased was born in Virginia, and emigrated with her father, Capt. Charles Polke, to Kentucky, at an early age. When in her 7th year, she, with her mother, two sisters, and a brother, were taken prisoners at what has since been called "the Burnt Station," and endured the hardships of a march to Detroit, then in possession of the English, and commanded by Col. De Peyster, through whose kindness and good offices Captain Polke was afterwards enable to ransom his family.

At the age of 17 years she was married to Captain Spier Spencer, (who fell at Tippecanoe). In 1807 Capt. Spencer and his family settled at Vincennes, in the then territory of Indians ; and afterward, in 1809, they removed to Corydon, where the deceased continued to reside up to the date of her death.

The deceased was a lady of no ordinary character. She possessed a mind of great native strength, and unaided as she was, except by a very defective education, she acquired a great fondness for reading, and became a person of great general information ; and especially was she fond of pouring over the pages of the inspired volume. Amid all the difficulties of a social and eventful life, she ever found consolation in its blessed promises. She sought no other comforter than her Saviour, and found him all-sufficient in every affliction. She early in life attached herself to the church, and died a member of h=the Christian denomination, having early come out in the reformation. She has for many years been a subscriber to the Harbinger, which she has constantly read.

She had generally enjoyed good health ; and when she was last attacked, she seemed to be impressed with the idea that she never would recover. She did not, however, regret her approaching dissolution. She had suffered many of the severest trials of human existence - had felt how worse than vain were all the enjoyments of this life, and hailed death as a welcome deliverer, who should translate her from this to a happier existence. Her death was as triumphant as her life had been pure and useful. T.C.S.