Person:Rebecca Spikes (1)

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J.C. Turner remembers that the "Old Spight's Homeplace" wa s near Hemphill in Sabine County. J.C. remembers going t o school with some of the Spights children at Hemphill. Tem pe left Hemphill with Becky after the civil war and went t o Corrigan. J.C. thinks the other Spights children died i n an epidemic an d are buried near Hemphill. Becky died of "old age" while J.C. was living in C aliforni a between 1932 and 1934. Pat Turner posted on Genforum Speight Famil y Genealogy Foru m on 4 June 1999: "I have a Speight connection in that area and time period . My ggm Rebecca Speight was b. 1860 in Leesville, Vernon P r . LA & d. 1932 in Polk Co TX. Her father is said to be Jo hn Jefferson Speigh t, b. abt 1832 in MS; her mother is Temp erance (Tempy) Haymons, b. abt 1835 i n GA." This information is from the gedcom that I submitted to th e Rootsweb Worldconnect project. I have entered informatio n and documented sources as I have received it. I have no t had opportunity to verify everything that I received fro m secondary sou Brenda Beaman Parker - January 2001

1. ↑ Information from interviews at the Turner family reunion in May, 2000
   memories of James Cleveland Turner.
2. ↑ The American Sunday-School Union. The Child's Scripture Question-Book, Embellished with Twenty-One Engravings, Prepared for the American Sunday-School Union, and Revised by the. (Philadelphia: The American Sunday-School Union, 1853For Sale by Robert J Harp,Agent; No. 112 Camp Street, New Orleans).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Turner Genealogy. (five typed pages of Joe Turner descendants).
4. ↑ Correspondence
   Sharon Speights Varnes, Palatka, Florida; email: Sharon Varnes@@catlover.com; website www.speights.net; as of June 2000.
5. ↑ Don Hendrix. Polk County Folks, Volume 1, Newspaper Obituaries and Death Notices. (Private, no date given)
   p. 132.