Notes for Henry Spyres
Henry Spyres and Lucinda Hopkins were married on 15 April 1868 in Lincoln Co, Missouri by J.H. Owings, JP.
1870 Prairie Township, Truxton PO, Lincoln Co, Missouri 04 August 1870, p170a
#177/167 Spires Mathias 40 m w farmer $1650/550 Mo - citizen
Matilda 33 f w keeping house Mo - can't write
Malon 16 m w at home Mo
Golman 15 m w works on farm Mo
James 11 m w works on farm Mo - attended school, can't write
Jacob 7 m w Mo
Casandra 6 f w Mo
Mathias H. 1 m w Mo
Spires Henry 27 m w farmer $-/125 Mo - citizen
Lucinda 30 f w keeping house Mo
Ebba A. 5 f w Mo
Atlanta 4 f w Mo
[next to Malen and Hannah]
1880 Lee's Creek Township, Washington Co, Arkansas 01 June 1880, ed212, p635a:
#9/9 Spyers Henry w m 36 md farmer Mo Ky Ky
Lucinda w f 40 wife md keeping house Mo Ky Tn
Eliza w f 15 dau single, at home, attended school, can read/write Mo Ky Tn
Atlanta w f 14 dau, single, at home, attended school, can read/write Mo Ky Tn
Artha [Arthur?] w m 9 son single, attended school Mo Ky Tn
Hanah B. w f 6 dau single at home Mo Ky Tn
Sarah F. w f 6 dau single at home Mo Ky Tn
Henry W.B. w m 3 son single at home Mo Ky Tn
Buried: Old Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Washington Co, Arkansas:
Henry Spyres
no dates
Co. G 3 MO S.M. Cavalry
Civil War:
Henry Spyres
Widow: Lucinda Spyres
Branch: G 3 __ S. Mil ??
Invalid: 1890 July 14?
Application No. 827442
Certificate No. 670204
State Filed: Arkansas
Widow: 1898? Apr 29?
Application No. 675725
Certificate No. 472454
State Filed: Arkansas
Missouri Archives:
#1271
3 Regt. Cav. S.M. Vols. Co. G
Spyres, Henry
Rank: Pvt Age: [blank]
Captain Rush, Com'd'g.
Enlisted: Feb 10, 62, Troy
Mustered in: Feb 15, 62, Warrenton, Mo.
Remarks: Corpl. Sept. 1, 63
Mustered out: Jan. 31, 65
Civil War Pension Application No. 827443, Certificate No. 670204, enrolled Knoxville, Knox Co, Tennessee. Applied 24 July 1890. Enrolled on 27 Jun 1890. Listed as 6 ft ½ in tall, fair complexion, dark hair, gray eyes. Henry suffered from "necrosis of right tibia".
Date of Birth and Death per Lou Ann.
Bethlehem 97 - School
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Bethlehem School was about five miles northwest of Winslow, its district comprised of Sections 35 and 36 of T14N, R31W, and parts of T13N, R31W. Records show that a school was here in 1883. It lasted until 1925. At that time, E.P. Hickey, James E. Cummings and others stated to the court that the district failed to maintain an adequate school and asked that the territory be annexed to Blackburn and Sycamore 150.
Persons who taught at Bethlehem beginning in 1890 as noted in the school warrant records were: Lizzie Bryning, G.F. Gilbreath, J.M. Peters, B.P. Crain (Crane), J.N. Davis, A.M. Rhea, Hattie Rutherford, W.S. Carson, Lola (Leola) Benton, A.S. Thompson, J.T. West, Jean Bentley, Erma Deathridge, Sarah Long, S.G. Carson (?) and M. Long. From about 1914 until the school closed in 1925 the teachers were: Lenora Johnson, Lillian Luther, Ethel Hight (Hite), Sylvia Davis, Elizabeth Harp, Ruth Smith and Pearl Nieburg.
Directors from 1895 to 1920 are listed in the school warrant ledgers: Fred Platthest, Sam Capps, Henry Spyers (sic), Calvin Trent, John Caviness, W.P. York, S.G. Carson, W.H. Pearson, P.L. Spryes (sic), R.J. Byrum and J.M. Tallant.
Results of school elections from 1921-1924 show that from five to nine persons voted and levied a 12 mill tax. Elected directors were: J.M. Talent 1921, J.W. Tanner 1922, T.J. Hale 1923, Guy Tanner and Frank Poor 1924.
Elizabeth Harp (now Mrs. I.J. Kirkpatrick) taught about 1920. She rode a horse from her home in Woolsey. She remembers getting home so tired from the last day of school exercises one time that she fell into bed and slept in her clothes.
Elizabeth attended Round Mountain and Woolsey schools, then entered Fayetteville High School, boarding with relatives, the Tony Sowder family. She went home to Woolsey once a month and rode the evening train back to Fayetteville. She recalls as a high school graduate4 going to the court house and taking the teacher’s examination from O.W. Bass. She started teaching when she was only sixteen; several of her students were older than she. After teaching at Bethlehem she taught in the early 1920s at Sassafras Pond, Mt. Olive and at Buckner. At Mt. Olive she boarded with Mr and Mrs. Coward. Sometimes she took her pupils on a picnic to Winslow where there was a mule-drawn merry-go-round.
Irma Boyer
page 323: [photo] Bethlehem 97. Old Bethlehem church and school was located beside Lee Creek, above Devil’s Den State Park. The picture was taken about 1906.
[courtesy of Frances Titsworth, 01 Feb 2008]
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