Obit for SPICER, William Harrison (b.1852 d.1931), Pine Co., MN

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OLD PINE LAKE RESIDENT DIES

 

Death Strikes Brainerd Home to Take Man Who Farmed in County Twenty-Six 

Years.

 

William Spicer, 79, passed away at the Brainerd home of a daughter Friday, 

March 20, after having suffered from cancer of the face for the past year. 

Mr. Spicer had been afflicted with the malady that caused his death for the 

past several years and had submitted to several operations with only 

temporary relief being enjoyed. Mrs. Spicer had passed away in Dec. 28, 

1928, thus terminating a happy union of 55 years. Since that time Mr. 

Spicer had made his home with his children.

 William Harrison Spicer was born July 8, 1852, in New York state coming 

to Minnesota in 1865 when he made his home at Mazeppa where he and later 

married Arina Davis on Dec. 31, 1873. To their union eight children were 

born, Mrs. Valerie Sheldon, Conrad, Mont., (unable to attend funeral); 

the Rev. Claude Spicer, Browns Valley, Minn.; Mrs. Pearl Heil, Theilman, 

Minn.; Lanklyn and William of Faribault; Mrs. Zela Spicer, St. Paul; 

Mrs. Evelena Peters, Brainerd and Mrs. Nannie Ballor, Manistique, Mich.

 The deceased resided at various places during his lifetime in-landed* 

among them being Mazeppa where he lived after coming from New York state 

until 1879 when he moved to Atkinson, Nebr. From there he returned to 

Mazeppa in 1894 and in 1902 he came to farm in Pine Lake township where 

he lived until Mrs. Spicer’s death at which time he broke up house-keeping 

and took up residence with his children.

 The deceased was a member of the Gospel Union creed and was an esteemed 

member of a large circle of friends. Besides his children two sisters, 

Mrs. Clarissa Davis of Newport, Neb.; Mrs. Sarah Port of Swan River, 

this state; 48 grandchildren survive.

 The funeral was held from the Methodist church in Finlayson cemetery, 

the Rev. John A. Hughes of Sandstone, spoke the funeral sermon and three 

sons, the Rev. Claude Spicer, Lanklyn and William Spicer acted as 

pallbearers with Lloyd Spicer, grandson and Ray Alloway and Everett Vork. 

 Besides other relatives in attendance the following grandchildren from 

away were at the funeral; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Spicer and Mr. and Mrs. 

Everett Vork of Sandstone; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Alloway of Minneapolis and 

Miss Helen Peters of Brainerd. William O’Connell and Ernest Deming of 

Sandstone, also attended. 



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