Person:William Spears (7)

Moved to Sutton Nebraska 1883 by covered wagon per Pearl Wall letter Sept 1975, then to Rawlins Co. Kansas 1887. Also living with them in 1880, Otie Reece, farm laborer from Canada

One World Tree says he was born in 1858 in Butler PA, died 11 Dec 1936 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA:?

1920 Yuma, Yuma, Colorado also lists grand daughter Irene.

William Henry Spears and Sarah Elizabeth Clifton were married June 11, 1874, at Sullivan County, Missouri. Later moving to Knox County, Illinois where Clara Belle, Emma Harry Otis, Sherman and Dorthea May (Doll) were born. They then moved to Sutton, (Spring Ranch) Nebraska, by train in 1883. There Charles W. and Bessie Pearl was born. In 1887 they came by wagon train to Rawlins County, Kansas, and filed on a homestead on the N.W. quarter of section 16, township (1) South range (35) Burntwood township. Here Alice Verlina, Bertha Grace, Ralph Eugene, Floyd A, and Hattie were born. In 1913 they moved to Yuma, Colorado, where they lived until 1921, moving back to McDonald, Kansas, where Will was a shoe cobbler and Sarah took in washing. They lived above the store on the west side of Main Street. They celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1924 at their son Sherman's farm. In 1925 they moved back to Yuma, Colorado, where they lived until William's death in 1933 and Sarah's death in 1938. . . William and Sarah also raised their granddaughter, Irene, to young womanhood. The Wm. Spears family all knew a bachelor neighbor, Frank Taunton, who became quite well to do and well known by many Rawlins County and Stratton, Nebraska people.

1. ↑ Correspondence from Bessie (Perilla or Pearl) Spears Wall daughter of Sarah Elizabeth, to Viola Clifton Call.
   birth date and place.
2. ↑ 1880 Census, Coldbrook Township, Warren Co., Illinois (2)
   William Spears, age 30, Farmer.
3. ↑ 1900 Census, Burntwood, Rawlins, Kansas
   H. William, age 52, born Feb 1848, married 24 years, born Ohio, parents born Ohio, farmer.
4. ↑ 1910 Census, Burntwood, Rawlins, Kansas
   William Spears, age 61, married 36 years, born Ohio, farmer.
5. ↑ 1920 Census, Yuma, Yuma, Colorado
   Wm. H. Spars, age 72, born Ohio, parents born US, retired farmer.
6. ↑ p. 3A. 1930 Census, Yuma, Yuma, Colorado (2)
   William H. Spears, age 82, 1st mar at age 26, born Ohio, parents born Ohio.
7. ↑ Ray E. Sommerville. Genealogy of Ray's Connected Families
   says born in Sullivan Co. Missouri.
8. ↑ Carley's Kingdom Website
   William Henry Spears, born 20 Feb 1848, Gunsey, Ohio, Death 23 Sep 1933, Yuma.
9. ↑ Yuma Cemetery Burial Records
   Spears, William H. , 1933 New Addition , 31.5.
10. ↑ Carley's Kingdom Website
    William Henry Spears, born 20 Feb, 1848 in Gunsey, Ohio, died 23 Sep 1933, Yuma.
11.   Article by Lester E. Spears. "The History of Rawlins Kansas.".