Thomas Spencer (son of Thomas Spencer and Elizabeth Julia Flournoy) was born 1751, and died 01 Jul 1806. He married Lucy Watkins.
Includes NotesNotes for Thomas Spencer:
The history of these families would constitute a history of the sections of Charlotte
County bordering on the headwaters of Roanoke Creek and its contributories:
Hill's, Spenser's and Spring Creek, as well as the Presbyterianism in that part of
Charlotte and the adjoining county of Prince Edward."
SPENCER FAMILY
Col. Thomas Spencer, the progenitor of the Spencer family, was born in 1751
and died in 1806.
He entered as Second Lieutenant, Captain John Martin's Company 4th Virginia
Regiment of the Continental Army for the War of The Revolution on February 23,
1778; later joined the army and served as First Lieutenant for eighteen months and
was promoted successively to Captain and Major, serving in the Brigade of
General Robert Lawson of Prince Edward County, in Lafayette's Division;
participated in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Guilford Court House and
in the surrender of Corwallis at Yortktown.
Col. Spencer married Lucy A. Watkins on April 5, 1781 and of this union was
born Susan, who married William B. Watkins: Sion, who married Mary Scott;
Patsy, who married Richard Morton; William W., who married Judith Ewell;
Thomas J., who married Eliza Eastham; and Elizabeth who married Capt. John D.
Richardson. Col. Thomas J. Spencer, a son of Sion and Mary Scott Spencer,
lived to the age of eighty-five and died in 1906 at the place of his birth, the old
Spencer homestead at then Fariston P.O. in Charlotte County. Col. Spencer
commanded the Charlotte Rifles, the first company formed in Charlotte County for
the War between the States, in the 18th Virginia Infantry, which Regiment was
among the first to engage in the First Battle of Manassas. He was later
commissioned Lieut-Col. and assigned to the Reserves in the defense of Richmond
in Ewell's Corps, and had the unique distinction of being the ranking
commissioned officer of that great corps, the remnant of which surrendered at
Appomattox, where he acted as Lieut-Gen by order of General Robert E. Lee and
paroled the Corps. No other such case is recorded in history. After the war he
was engaged in the commission business in Richmond and in 1891 he returned to
his old home in Charlotte, where he died in the enjoyment of the affection and
respect of all who knew him. He was a brave soldier and a devout Christian of the
Presbyterian faith. His only surviving child is Capt. Thomas A. Spencer, now living
at Houston Texas. He was a Captain of one of the companies of the Light-Infantry
Blues in the Spanish War, in which he served in a way characteristic of his soldier
ancestors.
Another son Col, Thomas Spencer married Eliza Eastham; and of this union
were born and lived to an advanced age - Dr. James T. Spencer, who died in
Farmville some twenty years ago; and Mrs. Lucy Ann Morton, the widow of the
late Capt. Jacob W. Morton who died in 1872.
Children of Thomas Spencer and Lucy Watkins are:
+Elizabeth Spencer.
Susan Spencer.
Leon Spencer.
Martha Spencer.
William Watkins Spencer.
+Thomas J Spencer.
Mary Spencer, b., VA.
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