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William Spann had only three children by Letisha Hyde. This is proved by his will, in which he leaves money and slaves primarily to WILLIS SPANN, POLLY OLIVER, and HARTWELL SPANN. These three he mentions first. Then he leaves the rest of his estate to his six sons and the two grandchildren by his deceased daughter, SARAH SPANN and her husband, JOHN M. HAYNES.
The second wife was MARY TARVER whose name is misprinted as TARBER. They were married in Davidson Co., TN, 10-24-1803.
[Marriage Book I, p. 73]
Further proof is the Revolutionary War Pension application papers of NANCY (ANN) TARVER WRIGHT DEW. She was a sister of MARY TARVER SPANN and Polly SPANN is mentioned in the papers as having witnessed NANCY's weddings in their father's home: first marriage in Warren Co., NC, and second marriage in Washington Co., GA.
BENJAMIN and MARTHA (PATSEY) TARVER came from Northampton Co., NC, first moving to Warren Co., NC. That is where NANCY married JOHN WRIGHT (1781) by whom she had among other children, a son named BIRD WRIGHT. The extended TARVER family left Warren Co. ca. 1785 and moved to Craven Co., SC. Proof if this move is the Warren County Court order of Dedimus, for depositions to be taken from BIRD TARVER and NANCY WRIGHT in Craven Co., SC, in the suit of PHILEMON HAWKINS, Esquire, against BENJAMIN TARVER. [11-5-1785, p. 110]
From Craven Co., SC, the extended family moved to Washington Co., NC, where General Wright died in 1795, and NANCY TARVER WRIGHT married her second husband, JOHN DEW, in 1797.
In 1801, BENJAMIN TARVER, JOHN HARRIS and SAMUEL HARRIS received passports from the Governor of Georgia to pass through the Indian territories going to the Western Territories (i.e. Middle Tennessee).
BENJAMIN TARVER died in Wilson Co., TN, in 1804, and his son, BENJAMIN TARVER, JR., was his administrator, who married SARAH ODUM and one of their sons was named BIRD TARVER.
JOHN HARRIS married CELIA TARVER, another daughter of BENJA-MIN and MARTHA TARVER. He died in 1826 in Wilson Co., TN, and CELIA married as her second husband, PATRICK YOUREE. She, too, is mentioned in the RW Pension papers.
This is only a brief summary of proofs for the marriage and relationship of WILLIAM SPANN and MARY TARVER, his second wife and the mother of BENJAMIN SPANN (named for grandfather BENJAMIN TARVER), WILLIAM SPANN,JAMES SPANN, CHARLES SPANN, RICHARD SPANN, and BIRD SPANN (named for his uncle BIRD TARVER), and SARAH SPANN who married JOHN HAYNES.
Bob ye olde professor of Wilson Co., TN, genealogy
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