Thomas County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Spears, W. H. 
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Richard White rw@pone.com April 2002 6:54 am

Cemetery:           The Old Cemetery
Name:               W. H. Spears
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W. H. Spears Co. B. 29th Regt CSA

Additional Comments:
On the Allen Spears cemetery plot, I note that Allen and his wife Sarah 
(Ridley?) Spears, also rest there in unmarked graves.  
Allen also served under the Confederacy, as a private in Company K, 12th 
Georgia Militia.   Their sons buried there, Winifred G. 
and W.(illiam?) H.(arrison) aka Harrison W., both served in the 29th Georgia 
Infantry Regiment and died early in the war... 
apparently either in Thomasville or at a location where their bodies could be 
brought back (possibly by rail).  Another son, 
David Spears, also served in the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment, was captured 
at Chickamauga, died in the Camp Douglas
P.O.W. Camp, and is interred in the Confederate Mound mass grave in the Old 
Chicago City Cemetery, in Illinois. The two grave
 markers in the Old Thomasville Cemetery indicate that Winifred and Harrison 
served in Company B, however it appears from 
Lillian Henderson's _Soldiers of Georgia_ and the Compiled Confederate Service 
Records, that all three brothers actually 
initially served in Company K which was later redesignated Company C of the 
29th Georgia Infantry Regiment.  
One son survived the war... John/James A. Spears served in Company E of  the 
50th Georgia Infantry Regiment and surrendered 
with it at Appomattox.  He lived at least into the 1880s when he served as a 
court-appointed guardian for an inheritance by my half 
great uncle James H. Carter, but I do not know where he died or was interred. 
Allen Spears was born in Florida about 
1821 (possibly near Alligator now called lake City... in the vicinity of a 
place now called Wellborn which was then in Columbia 
but is now in Suwannee County), and he apparently married Sarah Ridley in 
Wilkinson County, Georgia, in 1836. Allen 
and Sarah appear to have lived in Thomas County from before 1840 till their 
deaths... his having occurred
on 14 March 1879 and hers probably sometime after 1870. Allen Spier is a name 
common in families tracing back to the 
vicinity of Ayr, Scotland.  The name appears variously, as Spear and Spears but 
leads I am currently pursuing lead me 
to believe that the "correct" spelling was Spier... and that it was also spelt 
Spiers, Speir and Speirs........Richard White 2002
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Originally submitted Apr 2002

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