BIBLE: Spain and Spry Family Bibles
 
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Annette Lucas ClintonRoots@aol.com
April 2003
I have no connection to this family

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The following information is from the Iowa Genealogical Society, 
6000 Douglas, P.O. Box 7735, Des Moines, Iowa 50322

The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments was published by C.
Alexander & Co. 1934.

BIRTHS
Albert Spain                 28 Jun 1801
Nancy Spain                  26 Jan 1806
Eliza Jane Spain             25 Jul 1825
John MacAdams Spain          21 Mar 1828
William Austin Spain         15 Aug 1830
Catherine Elizabeth Spain    27 Nov 1832
Samantha Spain               20 Nov 1834
Isaac McAdams Spain          05 Jun 1837
Mary Spain                   18 Mar 1840
Wesley Spain                 26 Jul 1842
Eliza Ann Spain              10 Aug 1845
Sarah Spain                  17 Sep 1828 wife of Jno. Spain

DEATHS
Joshua Spain                 09 Dec 1840
Elizabeth Spain, Sr.         03 Feb 1841
Eliza Jane Cantril           04 Sep 1845 d/o Albert & Nancy
Isaac Mc. Spain              08 May 1858 s/o Albert & Nancy
John McAdams Spain           30 Jan 1882
Sarah M. Spain               22 Jan 1883 his wife
Nancy Spain                  25 Sep 1887 wife of Al. Spain

On a page apparently torn from another Bible and inserted in the Spain Bible:
Mother McAdams            d. 26 May 1839 in her 84th year
Father McAdams            d. 16 Jun 1839 in his 86th year
Isaac McAdams             b. 08 Jun 1798
Samuel McAdams            b. 29 Dec 1800
Elenor McAdams            b. 16 Feb 1803
Nancy McAdams             b. 26 Jan 1806
John McAdams              b. 31 Oct 1808
Archibald McAdams         b. 24 Jan 1812
Wm. McAdams born 01 Feb 1814 making him 75 years old this day, 19 Dec 1888.
Taken as given to me, a son-in-law, Albert Spain, in his 88th year.

SPRY FAMILY

This Bible "H. & E. Phinney's Stereotype Edition, published Cooperstown, NY 1831"

BIRTHS
John Spry                    09 May 1799 s/o John and Ann Spry
Elizabeth Owen               17 Apr 1800 d/o William & Jane Owen
Kitty H. Spry                30 Jan 1800
William Owen Spry            14 Apr 1822 s/o John & Elizabeth Spry
July Ann                     13 Sep 1826 d/o John & Kitty H. Spry
Elizabeth Spry               24 Feb 1828
George Washington Spry       23 Apr 1830
Mary Jane Spry               26 Aug 1832
Margrat Francis Spry         18 May 1835
Eliza Kathrine Spry          18 Aug 1837
Caroline A. Spry             08 Jan 1840
Benjamin Franklin Spry       05 Mar 1842
Nancy Angeline Spry          03 Jul 1846

James Wasson, s/o J. Wasson & Julyann, his wife, 11 Jan 1847
Berthel Floyd Spry, s/o Benjamin Franklin & Ann Eliza Spry, 19 Aug 1878

MARRIAGES
John Spry & Elizabeth Owen                  03 Apr 1821
John Spry & Kitty H. Wren                   10 Nov 1825
Juliann Spry & J. C. S. Wasson              22 Jan 1846
Elizabeth Spry & J. Hancock                 24 Feb 1850
George W. Spry & Elizabeth Beard            29 Apr 1852
Mary Jane Spry & Jacob Sagers               16 Sep 1852
Margret Frances Spry & Lewis Byram Nunnally 18 May 1855
Eliza C. Spry & William A. Noble            14 May 1857
Caroline A. Spry & Newton H. Roberts        27 Dec 1857

DEATHS
Elizabeth Spry               28 Aug 1823
William Owen Spry               Oct 1823
Benjamin Franklin Spry          Sep 1921