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Elmer and Zenith Spires

 

Elmer Spires was the son of John and Rebecca Spires born on 3/1/1840 in we believe Georgetown, OH. He lived in Georgetown area until around 1870, where he moved his family from Ohio to Labette, KS. Around the last part of the decade he disappeared leaving his family in Labette, there has been records of Elmer Spires in Neosho, MO which could be him because rail lines from Eastern Kansas ran through that area. There was also records of around 1910 of an Elmer Spires living around OKC area. The only other records is a patent out of Coffeyville, KS around the Labette area of a patent for a wagon brake issues by a Elmer Spires. No one has been able to track any other information on Elmer Spires.

Zenith Norris was the daughter of Guy and Agnes Norris born on 5/15/1841 in Bracken County, KY. She lived in KY until around 1860's where she was in Brown County, OH and married Elmer Spires. After Elmer left and never returned, most of the family moved to Minot, North Dakota, were she lived until her death on 4/4/1920. 

Elmer and Zenith married in Georgetown, OH on 2/6/1867, They had the following children in order; Louis Spires (1867), Charles Spires (1869), Austin Spires (1872), Oliver Kirby (1876), Obie (1879), Nellie (1881), and Hazel (1884). Louis and Charles were born in Georgetown, OH, and the rest of the kids were born in Kansas around the Labette area. 




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