Andrew Jackson Speer
1818 - 1886 (68 years)-
Name Andrew Jackson Speer Born 22 Jun 1818 Leesville, Lawrence, Indiana, USA 
Gender Male Died Aug 1886 Clio, Wayne, Iowa, USA Person ID P4935 Woelfel Test Last Modified 19 Jun 2020
Father John A Speer, b. 1790, Surry County, North Carolina, USA , d. 1842, Leesville, Lawrence, Indiana, USA (Age 52 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary Polly Flinn (Speer), b. 1786, Surry County, North Carolina, USA , d. Aug 1831, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA (Age 45 years) Relationship natural Married 12 May 1817 Jackson County, Indiana, USA [1] Family ID F1250 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Susan E Moore (Speer), b. 7 May 1826, Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana, USA , d. 5 Feb 1904, Cheyenne, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, USA (Age 77 years) Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 Family ID F1268 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Andrew Jackson Speer was born on June 22, 1818, in Lawrence County, Indiana to John A. and Susan E. Moore Spear. He was one of four children from that marriage, but later would have two addition half-siblings when his father remarried to Jamima Davis after his mother's death.
Andrew Jackson was also known as "Little Jack" Speer according Rollo Speer who penned a Speer Family History in 1945. Another Speer cousin was also named Andrew Jackson In those days but went by the name "Big Jack" so as to no confusion. Andrew Jackson worked as a wagon maker or "Wainwright" while in Indiana. He married Susan E. Moore on March 18, 1844, in Jackson, Indiana, and together they would raise a family of nine children. In the mid-1850s they located to Clay, in Wayne County, Iowa where they would remain the rest of their lives. Andrew Jackson died in August 1886 in Clio, Iowa, at the age of 68 and is buried in Wayne County at Greenridge Cemetery in Allerton.
Children:
Laura Speer 1844 - 1856
Teresa Jane Speer Welsh 1845 - 1925
Roy Speer 1847 - 1870
Eli Whitney Speer 1854 - 1941
Nathan O Speer 1856 - 1940
Minerva Speer 1860 - 1900
Hugh Moore Speer 1861 - 1934
Warren Speer 1864 - 1922
John M Speer 1849 - 1929
- Andrew Jackson Speer was born on June 22, 1818, in Lawrence County, Indiana to John A. and Susan E. Moore Spear. He was one of four children from that marriage, but later would have two addition half-siblings when his father remarried to Jamima Davis after his mother's death.
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Sources - [S1295766905] Indiana, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).
- [S1295766905] Indiana, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).