Re: GARVIN, Mary E.
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Re: GARVIN, Mary E.
9/05/98
Hello Boyd:
Just read your message...
John L. Spear who immigrated to California in 1853, Born in Page Co. VA.,July 1,1811 was a son of Jacob and Polly (Hardberger) Spear, both natives of Pennsylvania, who removed to Virginia soon after their marriage.There were 9 children in the family.J.L. was raised in his native state of VA, there he married his first wife,(I don't know her name) who bore him a daughter, Sarah Ann, (the deceased wife of Edward Davis of Exeter CA.)Sometime after this marriage Mr. Spear migrated to Missouri and there his wife died in 1836.In 1844 he married Mary R. Garvin and to them 6 children were born, one dying in infansy.They are as follows:Jacob, Margaret,(wife of John Fox) Frances, Agnes, and Henry E.
In 1853 John L. Spear crossed the plains to California first settling in Stanislaus County.Two years later he went into the placer mines, following mining until 1861, in that year moving to Tulare county CA first settling on eighty acres of timber land, but soon after locating near Farmersville, where he resided until his death in 1892.
I have a little more info about the Garvin family, most of it relating to Mary's sister Frances J. who was married to Francis Marion Sturgeon, my great grandparents.
Hope some of this is helpful to you.
Jodie
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