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Malen Spires and Rachael Capps were married on 04 January 1823 in Grainger Co, Tennessee. Bond signed by Malen Spires and Daniel Hammock.

1830 No Township Listed, Lincoln Co, Missouri, p3, line 18:
Malon Spires - 30001/01001
1m -5 c1825-30 = William c1826
1m 20-30 c1800-10 = Malon
1f 5-10 c1820-25 = Sarah c1825
1f 20-30 c1800-10 = Rachael Capps

1840 Camp Branch Township, Warren Co, Missouri, p164, line 28:
Malan Spiers - 341001/000101
3m -5 c1835-40 =
4 m 5-10 c1830-35 = Isaac c1828
Mathias c1830
Martin c1835
??
1m 10-15 c1825-30 = William c1826
1m 30-40 c1800-10 = Malan
1f 15-20 c1820-25 = Sarah c1825
1f 30-40 c1800-10 = Rachael Capps

1842 Warren County, Missouri, Will Book A, May 20, 1833 to Aug. 19, 1846. Clerk: Carty Wells.
Sept or Oct 1842, pp. 170-171. MILLSAP, NEAL. Administrator: Malen SPIRES. Securities: Walter HOPKINS & Aaron T. BECK. Died intestate.

1850 - unable to locate

Last Will and Testament of Malen Spyres
courtesy of LouAnn, email, 25 Jan 2008
Will not dated, filed 07 February 1854 in county court

The last will and testament of Malen Spyres of Prairie Township in Lincoln County, State of Missouri, in the name of God, I Malen Spyres, considering the uncertainty of this mortal, and being of sound mind and memory, blessed be God for the same, make and publish this my last will and testament by manner and form following that is to say first, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Rachel Spyres, all the lands that I hold at this time situated in Prairie Township, County of Lincoln to wit the Northwest quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section twelve in Township forty-nine Range three west, also the Northeast fourth of the South west quarter of Section thirty six Township fifty range three west also the west half of the Southeast quarter of Section thirty-six/Township fifty Range three west also the Northeast fourth of the Northwest quarter of Section Twelve Township forty nine of range three west also the west half of the Northwest quarter of Section Twelve Township forty-nine, range three west.

Item I give and bequeath unto my mutch (sic) beloved daughter Sally Parson the sum of five dollars.
I give and bequeath unto my son William Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Mathias Spyres the sum of five dollars.
I give and bequeath unto my son Martin the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Eleaiza Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Aaron Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Samson Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Zerildia Spyres the sum of five dollars.
I give and bequeath unto my son Henry E.? Spyres the sum of five dollars.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Malen Spyres H. Spyres the sum of five dollars.

My meaning and will is that my mutch (sic) beloved son William and Isaac Spyres shall be my soul (sic) executors that they shall have autority (sic) to manage (sic) and control my business as I would were I to live.

My meaning and will is that my sons William and Isaac Spyres ?may sell? the mill that belongs to them and me and give ? defined a legal rite to portion of the piece of land on which the mill stands. My meaning and will is as to rest and residue and remainder of my personal estate goods and chattels of what kind or nature soever, I give and bequeath the same to my wife Rachel Spyres to have and hold the same so long as she lives or remains my widow and at her death or second marriage which shall first happen and my will and meaning is that in case my Rachel should depart this life or marry then my will is that all my lands which have been described and all my good, chattels, merchandise be indifferently appraised and after sutch (sic) appraisment (sic) that the same be equally divided among my living children or sold at public sale.

My will and meaning is _____ _____ ? second marriage ? of my wife Rachel that my _____ _____ _____ _____ on the West Prairie be equally divided among my four youngest children and that the land situated on west corner be equally divided among my sons and daughters to wit: Sally Parson, Mathias Spyres, Martin Spyres, Eleaiza Spyres, Aaron Spyres. Signed and sealed.

I publish and declare the above was read to Malen Spyres to be his last will and testament of ? who at his request are in my presence have subscribed our names as witnesses there unto.
Malen Spyres
Sammie Hutton
Joseph Stark

State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
Samuel Hutton after being duly sworn upon his oath says that Malen Spyres whose name is affixed to the above and foregoing last will and testament subscribes his name thereto in his presence, that he the said Hutton subscribed his name thereto as a witness at the request of said Spyres and that said Spyres was at the time of making said will and subscribing his thereto of sound and desposing (sic) mind.

I ? Hunter ? Clerk of County Court of Said county of Lincoln certify that Samuel Hutton personally appeared before me this 7th day of February 1854, and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing ?affidavit? Witness my hand and seal of said county court affixed at office the day and year herein above written. ? Hunter ? Clerk.

Lincoln Co, Missouri Will Book 1825-1855
Will of Malen [Malon/Mahlon] Spyres, undated
Malen Spyres of Prairie Township, Lincoln Co, Missouri
Wife - Rachel Spyres all lands that I hold at this time.
$5.00 each to the following children, to wit:
Sally Parson
William Spyres
Isaac
Mathias
Martin
Eleazer
Aaron
Sanson [Sampson?]
Zerilda Spyres
Henry and
Malen Spyres.
Executor: William and Isaac Syres, sons
Witness: Joseph Stark, Samuel Mutton
Recorded: 14 February 1854

History of Salt River [Baptist] Association, Missouri
Written by Order of The Association
by Wiley Jones Patrick
E. W. Stephens Publishing, 1909
Chapter 6: Separating for Service
p182: Zion Church the next in the list, is situated in the eastern border of Montgomery county, and near by the large expanse of prairie extending miles to the westward. The organization was effected on March 15, 1841, at the home of John H. Dutton, by five constituent members, viz.: John H. Dutton, Mary R. Dutton, Washington Graves, Mildred Graves and Jesse Watkins. In that early day, the settlements did not occupy the area of prairie county, but were confined chiefly to the timber lands adjacent to the watercourses. The settlement in which the church was located was on Bear Creek, ten or twelve miles east of the present site of Montgomery City.
Robert Gilmore was, for the first six years, Pastor of Zion Church, and was succeeded by Lewis Duncan, he by Mahlon Spyres, A.C. Davenport, W.H. Vardeman and others. [This is likely Malen who married Rachael Capps]

p185: Bethlehem Baptist Church.
In a settlement along the southern border of the West Prairie, and in the timber lands north of West Cuivre River, the missionary, in the early forties, found a few Baptist families. This settlement was about fourteen miles northwesterly from Troy, and four miles southeast from where Olney now stands, and was in Lincoln county. Eight of these scattered sheep of the fold met at the house of Mahlon Spyres on April 26, 1845, and were constituted into a church of "United Baptists", called Bethlehem. The organization was effected by Elders David Hubbard and Jacob Capps. The constituent members were Mahlon Spyres, Edward Moss, Jacob Capps, Elizabeth Capps, Sampson Wamble, Mary A. Wamble, David Capps and Sarah Capps. The same year the church sent messengers and joined the Salt River Association.
For some months, meetings were held at Brother Spyres' house. Then the church built a log house in which to worship. My first visit to this church was in 1854. I found the house then to be a primitive looking structure, with a stick chimney, a dirt floor, a clapboard door and split logs and slabs for seats. In August, 1846, a resolution was passed calling for the observance of "Foot Washing" as a church ordinance. No such custom, however, existed in 1854.
Succession of Pastors. Jacob Capps was first Pastor for one year. He was followed by L.C. Musick for a year, and in April 1857, Robert Gilmore was chosen Pastor. Mahlon Spyres became Pastor in 1848, he having been ordained by the church in May of that year the presbytery, consisting of Elders A.D. Landrum, David Hubbard, L.C. Musick, Lewis Duncan and W.D. Grant. The last named was Pastor from September, 1850, for one year or more, and he was succeeded by Walter McQuie, who continued in the office to the close of 1855.
A meeting was held in 1851 by T.T. Johnson and Mahlon Spyres which added six members to the church [p186] which was the first intimation of an ingathering shown in the records.
In July, 1854, the church gave a license to R.S. Duncan to "exercise his gift", and on the 26th of August, 1855, at her call, he was ordained to the ministry by Elders W. McQuie, W.D. Grant and Lewis Duncan, and the following year he was chosen Pastor and so continued until late in the year 1859.
The old log house was replaced by a new double log house of worship in 1854 and '55, forty-four by twenty-four feet, well finished with a shingle roof and a pulput (sic). This house was modeled after a plan common in those times, the two sections of the side walls being joined together in the middle by pens, with door in one pen and pulpit in the other. This house served a good purpose for worship until the erection of the present frame house which was completed in 1875, out on the prairie, some two miles northeasterly from the old site. Old Bethlehem and Mt. Prairie churches had united and formed one church and called it Fairview.
In the second year of R.S. Duncan's pastorate, which was August, 1857, Old Bethlehem Church enjoyed a gracious revival, extensive in results. Such had not before been known in the community, and seldom, if ever, in all that section of the State. Elders T.T. Johnson, and Walter McQuie aided the Pastor in the first part of this revival meeting, and Lewis Duncan later on. The revival spirit continued through August, September, and October, the fruit of which was the baptism of thirty-seven converts, some of whom were enrolled at Indian Creek Church. This was an old time revival meeting, in which the "mourner's bench" was used. The year following its close (1858) the total membership was sixty-seven as shown in the Association minutes. The year preceding the revival the church reported only twenty-one on her roll.
In May, 1854, Bethlehem Church was a member of the convention that organized the Bear Creek Association [p187], and her membership in the Salt River Association ceased.
Mahlon Spyres, the first to be ordained by Bethlehem Church, had only a short career as a gospel. He, however, filled his mission with fidelity. When he joined in the organization of the church, he was then an elderly, with a large family. When and from where he emigrated to Missouri, we know not. He seemed built for a frontiersman - robust and strong. Well suited for a vanguard to those who must come after him. Probably he never went to school a day in his life, and he little of books, but he studied men, and could preach to them. Which he did for a few of the later years of his life.
Brother Spyres was a miller and a farmer. By the mill and the farm he lived and supported his family. I was with him at the Salt River Association in 1842, the last time I ever met him. He died between that date and 1854. [This is the father of Malen H. Spyres who married Hannah J. Bittick]
Jacob Capps, one of the constituents, and Pastor the first year, of Bethlehem, preached a few years in that section of the State, and moved thence to southwest Missouri.
The following additional churches were, for only a brief period identified with Salt River Association, then united wi Bear Creek, viz.: Middletown, Indian Creek, Cottonwood and Mt. Pleasant. Their sketches will be brief also.

History of Montgomery County, Missouri
Zion Baptist Church lists Malen Spires as one of the ministers.

Lincoln Co, Missouri
Special Church Addition
Malen Spyres was an original member and meetings were held in the house of Mahlon Spyres. In August 1846, Mahlon [Sr] was licensed to preach and in May 1848 he was ordained and called to minister the church in September 1848.

History of Lincoln County, Missouri by Dr. Joseph A. Mudd
page 31:
Prairie. - August 17, 1848; petition not found; commencing at the northwest corner of section four, township forty-nine, range three west, running thence south on the county line four miles to the southwest corner of section twenty-one, township forty-nine, range three west, thence east on the Warren county line four miles to the southwest corner of section nineteen, township forty-nine, range two west, thence south on said Warren county line four miles to the southwest corner of section seven, township forty-eight, range two west, thence north eleven miles to northeast corner of section twenty-one, township fifty, range two west to Waverly township line, thence west on the Waverly township line three miles, to the Montgomery county line at the northwest corner of section nineteen, township fifty, range two west, thence south on said Montgomery county line three miles to the southwest corner of section thirty-one township fifty, range two west, thence west on said Montgomery county line four miles to place of beginning. The elections were to be held at the house of THOMAS GAMMON, and ROBERT B. ALLEN. ISAAC CANNON and MALEN SPYRES were named the judges of election.

Missouri Land Patents - BLM [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch]

Malen Spyers
Issue Date: 10/13/1835
Land Office: Palmyra
Acres: 41.98
Document No. 5234
Accession/Serial No. MO0350__.096
BLM Serial No. MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: SENE
Section/Block: 1/
Township: 49-N
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Lincoln

Maylen Spyers
Issue Date: 10/14/1835
Acres: 40
Document No. 5960
Accession/Serial No. MO0360__.316
BLM Serial No. MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: NWNE
Section/Block: 12/
Township: 49-N
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Lincoln

Malan Spyers
Issue Date: 7/1/1841
Acres: 83.975
Document No. 19564
Accession/Serial No. MO2350__.115
BLM Serial No: MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: W ½ NE
Section/Block: 1/
Township: 49-N
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Lincoln

Malon Spyres
Issue Date: 1/1/1850
Land Office: Palmyra
Acres: 40
Document No. 24619
Accession/Serial No. MO2450_.377
BLM Serial No. MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: NENW
Section/ Block: 12/
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Lincoln

Maloon Spyres
Issue Date: 1/1/50
Land Office: Palmyra
Acres: 80
Document No. 24701
Accession/Serial No. MO2450_.402
BLM Serial No. MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: W ½ SE
Section/Block: 30/10
Township: 50-N
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Montgomery

Walen/Malen Spyres
Issue Date: 4/5/1855
Land Office: Palmyra
Acres: 40
Document No. 24921
Accession/Serial No. MO2540__.075
BLM Serial No. MO NO S/N
Aliquot Parts: NESW
Section/Block: 36/
Township: 50-N
Range: 3-W
Meridian: 5th PM
County: Lincoln

Acres: 41.98
40.00
83.975
80.00
40.00
40.00
Total: 325.955
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