James Boyd Speer and Agnes Twyford

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Husband James Boyd Speer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Jul 1807 - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 2 Apr 1886 - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: James Speer (1754/1765-1847) 4 5
         Mother: Mary Boyd (Abt 1775-1859) 4 6

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       Marriage: 1853 1

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Wife Agnes Twyford ⁷

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            AKA: Agnes Twiford 1 3
           Born: 1823 - Independence Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 7
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           Died: 21 Aug 1913 3
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         Father: Milow Twyford (1829-      ) 8
         Mother: Eleanor McCallister (      -      ) 9

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Children

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1 F Wilhelmina Speer ¹⁰

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            AKA: Wilmina Speer 1
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         Spouse: Philip J. Magnus (      -      ) 1 10

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2 F Cordelia Speer ¹⁰

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            AKA: Dillie A. Speer 1
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         Spouse: Dr. J. R. King (      -      ) 11
           Marr: 2 Oct 1888 12

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3 F Harriet C. Speer ^{1 11}

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           Died: Bef 1915
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         Spouse: Louis Magnus (      -      ) 7

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4 M Isaac Newton Speer ^{1 11}

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         Spouse: Emma Brenn (      -      ) 7

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5 M Frank B. Speer ^{1 11}

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         Spouse: Alice Chickering (      -      ) 7

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6 M Howard L. Speer ^{1 11}

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           Born: 23 Sep 1866 - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Mary J. Thomas (      -      ) 13
           Marr: 3 Aug 1902 13

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7 M Grant A. Speer ^{1 11}

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         Status: Twin

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8 F Cora V. Speer ^{1 11}

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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: [Unk] Taylor (      -      ) 7

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9 M Elmer B. Speer ^{1 11}

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10 M Garnet R. Speer ^{1 12}

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         Spouse: Della Faulk (      -      ) 7

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11 F Elizabeth Speer ¹²

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            AKA: Lizzie E. Speer 1
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General Notes: Husband - James Boyd Speer

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He was the eldest child of a family of four, having two brothers, John and Robert, both of whom operated farms adjoining the old Speer homestead, and one sister Jane. [GPHWP, 320] This is considerably different information than is given by other sources.

He passed his childhood in Robinson township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in his birthplace, and inherited upon his father's death a portion of the home farm. On this he lived the remainder of his long life. He might have served as the most convincing of arguments for a rural life, reaching the age of eighty-five years, and maintaining during that period such equable health that he actually never tasted medicine until the attack of pneumonia which finally carried him off. He was a man of strong convictions, a Presbyterian in religion, as was the case with all his family, and in politics a member of the Republican party.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 758.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 320, 392, 809, 1067.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1067.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 399.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 392, 809, 1067.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 809, 1067.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 320.

8 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 903.

9 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 904.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 320, 1067.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 320, 1068.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1068.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 321.