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From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <>
Subject: DEATH OF REUBEN DOTY SPENCER
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:12:11 -0500


The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, April 1, 1909

REUBEN DOTY SPENCER was born near Troy, Gauge County, Ohio, Jan. 18th, 1837,
and died at his home in Derby, Iowa, March 24th, 1909. He was married to
MISS ARSULA MAXWELL, Sept. 23, 1860. To this union were born two children,
ALBERT DAYTON of Derby, Iowa and FRANK who died Nov. 15, 1888, at the age of
17 years.

MR. and MRS. SPENCER moved from Ohio to Champaign County, Ill., in the year
1861 and from there to Lucas County, Iowa, in 1868 where they have since
made their home. He was a kind and generous neighbor, a loving husband and
father, and will be sadly missed by a host of friends. There is left to
mourn his departure, his wife and son ALBERT and wife and the two grandsons,
FRANK and ROBERT, and one aged sister, MRS. E.G. CORLISS, who resides in
Ohio.
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June 22, 2005


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