Joseph
S. Spicer
Obituary from Wayne County Press, 3/20/1890:
Died, of peneumonia, at the
residence of John Hargrave, Wayne City, Ill., Feb. 25, 1890, Mr. Joseph Spicer, in the
65th year of his age.
Not long after the commencement of the Revolutionary war, John Spicer,
who was then in the British army, was sent with his comrades to America
to help subdue the rebellious Colonists, but his sympathies being with
the Colonists he deserted and joined the Continental army under
Washington, with which he served until the close of the war, when he
settled in Pennsylvania and married a Dutch woman and lived there until
1819, when he moved to Muskingum Co., Ohio, with a grown up family of
nine children. His second son, Daniel Spicer, the father
of
Joseph, was born in
Pennsylvania in 1788, and died in Wayne County,
Ill., in 1862. He served in the War of 1812. His third wife and mother
of Joseph was a lady named Darner,
of Muskingum Co., O., and who died at David
Spicer’s
in Wayne County, Ill., last September, at the age of 83 years.
Daniel
was noted for his swiftness on foot, at one time passing the stage
coach and coming in ahead on a long heat. Daniel had nine children by
his last wife, of whom John K.,
David, Jacob, Joseph, William S., Mary
J. and Naomi all came
to Wayne County where Mary and
Naomi changed
their names to Weaver and where Naomi died.
Joseph Spicer, the
subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Feb. 12,
1825; married to Ann E. Daily
near Adamsville, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1849; buried in the Hale graveyard near
Johnsonville, Ill. He leaves three children to mourn his loss, Mrs.
John Hargrave, Mrs.
Sylvester Bernard [sic, s/b/ Barnard] and Mrs. Alney Hargrave.
He had his father’s fleetness of foot, for in his younger days he was
never beaten in a foot race and even a short time before his death he
would think nothing of an eight or nine mile walk.
Uncle Joe, as he was familarly called, was converted in 1839 and
joined the United Brethren church, and in 1848 he united with the M.E.
church in which faith he lived and died a consistent member. He was a
stalwart Republican in politics, voting nothing but the straight
ticket. Uncle Joe as a faithful friend, a kind father, a good neighbor
and above all he was a faithful follower of the Master, humble, honest
and kind. Good old man we miss you, but while we drop a tear to your
memory, we know all is well.”
[Joseph - Born 2/12/1825
- Died 2/24/1890, buried in Hale Cemetery]
[Daniel - Born 5/8/1788 -
Died 3/6/1862, buried in Hale Cemetry]
[John - Born 5/19/1754 -
Died 8/6/1839, buried in Adamsville Baptist Cemetery]