Bastrop Daily Enterprise (Bastrop, Louisiana) Friday - 18 February 1927 Front Page
WILLIAM J. SPIER
Well Known Morehouse Parish Citizen Dies at His Home in Bastrop Wednesday
Following an illness covering a period of more than a year, Mr. William J. Spier died at his home, 502 South Washington Street, Bastrop, at 1:30 pm Wednesday afternoon, being 65 years, 7 months and 23 days old at the time of his death. During his recent illness, Mr. Spier was taken to a Monroe sanitarium, where he underwent an operation and everything was done to relieve his suffering and to restore him to his former health, but in vain.
Mr. Spier was a native of Union Parish but removed to this parish when a young man, and was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Johnson, who died in 1923. Settling in Ward Two after his marriage, deceased followed the pursuit of farming and reared a large family. Several years ago, he removed to Bastrop where he had lived. Mr. Spier was a good, honest, Christian man and was an asset to the community in which he lived. Ones of his aims in life was to rear his family upright and to educate them and to this end he was quite successful. He belonged to the Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held at the Spier residence at 2:30 pm yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Alonzo Early of the Methodist Church and interment followed in Christ Church Cemetery, with F. P. Robinson, undertaker, in charge.
Mr. Spier is survived by one brother:
Mr. Ott Spier of Monroe
Three sisters:
Mrs. Arthur Arthur Edwards of Union Parish
Mrs. Rufus Allen of Union Parish
Mrs. Charles Barr of Union Parish
Mr. Spier is survived by his six daughters:
Mrs. Wayne Montgomery of Bastrop
Mrs. Wilbur Eldridge Sisson of Columbia
Sadie Spier of Bastrop
Ruth Spier of Bastrop
Ollie Vivian Spier who is teaching in Jackson, Mississippi
Ida Spier of Bastrop who is teaching in Shreveport, Louisiana
Three sons:
Hugo Spier of Bastrop
J. B. Spier of Bastrop
Lawrence Spier a student at LSU in Baton Rouge
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son of Jefferson B Spier & Sarah Bowen
1880 Union Parish LA census
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Jefferson B. Speir 44 Self (Head)
Ana J. Speir 38 Wife
WILLIAM J. SPEIR 19 SON
John A. Speir 15 Son
James E. Speir 12 Son
Josephine Speir 10 Daughter
Lena Speir 8 Daughter
Arthur Speir 5 Son
Samuel Speir 3 Son
WILLIAM J. SPIER
Well Known Morehouse Parish Citizen Dies at His Home in Bastrop Wednesday
Following an illness covering a period of more than a year, Mr. William J. Spier died at his home, 502 South Washington Street, Bastrop, at 1:30 pm Wednesday afternoon, being 65 years, 7 months and 23 days old at the time of his death. During his recent illness, Mr. Spier was taken to a Monroe sanitarium, where he underwent an operation and everything was done to relieve his suffering and to restore him to his former health, but in vain.
Mr. Spier was a native of Union Parish but removed to this parish when a young man, and was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Johnson, who died in 1923. Settling in Ward Two after his marriage, deceased followed the pursuit of farming and reared a large family. Several years ago, he removed to Bastrop where he had lived. Mr. Spier was a good, honest, Christian man and was an asset to the community in which he lived. Ones of his aims in life was to rear his family upright and to educate them and to this end he was quite successful. He belonged to the Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held at the Spier residence at 2:30 pm yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Alonzo Early of the Methodist Church and interment followed in Christ Church Cemetery, with F. P. Robinson, undertaker, in charge.
Mr. Spier is survived by one brother:
Mr. Ott Spier of Monroe
Three sisters:
Mrs. Arthur Arthur Edwards of Union Parish
Mrs. Rufus Allen of Union Parish
Mrs. Charles Barr of Union Parish
Mr. Spier is survived by his six daughters:
Mrs. Wayne Montgomery of Bastrop
Mrs. Wilbur Eldridge Sisson of Columbia
Sadie Spier of Bastrop
Ruth Spier of Bastrop
Ollie Vivian Spier who is teaching in Jackson, Mississippi
Ida Spier of Bastrop who is teaching in Shreveport, Louisiana
Three sons:
Hugo Spier of Bastrop
J. B. Spier of Bastrop
Lawrence Spier a student at LSU in Baton Rouge
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son of Jefferson B Spier & Sarah Bowen
1880 Union Parish LA census
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Jefferson B. Speir 44 Self (Head)
Ana J. Speir 38 Wife
WILLIAM J. SPEIR 19 SON
John A. Speir 15 Son
James E. Speir 12 Son
Josephine Speir 10 Daughter
Lena Speir 8 Daughter
Arthur Speir 5 Son
Samuel Speir 3 Son
Bastrop Daily Enterprise (Bastrop, Louisiana) Friday - 18 February 1927 Front Page
WILLIAM J. SPIER
Well Known Morehouse Parish Citizen Dies at His Home in Bastrop Wednesday
Following an illness covering a period of more than a year, Mr. William J. Spier died at his home, 502 South Washington Street, Bastrop, at 1:30 pm Wednesday afternoon, being 65 years, 7 months and 23 days old at the time of his death. During his recent illness, Mr. Spier was taken to a Monroe sanitarium, where he underwent an operation and everything was done to relieve his suffering and to restore him to his former health, but in vain.
Mr. Spier was a native of Union Parish but removed to this parish when a young man, and was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Johnson, who died in 1923. Settling in Ward Two after his marriage, deceased followed the pursuit of farming and reared a large family. Several years ago, he removed to Bastrop where he had lived. Mr. Spier was a good, honest, Christian man and was an asset to the community in which he lived. Ones of his aims in life was to rear his family upright and to educate them and to this end he was quite successful. He belonged to the Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held at the Spier residence at 2:30 pm yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Alonzo Early of the Methodist Church and interment followed in Christ Church Cemetery, with F. P. Robinson, undertaker, in charge.
Mr. Spier is survived by one brother:
Mr. Ott Spier of Monroe
Three sisters:
Mrs. Arthur Arthur Edwards of Union Parish
Mrs. Rufus Allen of Union Parish
Mrs. Charles Barr of Union Parish
Mr. Spier is survived by his six daughters:
Mrs. Wayne Montgomery of Bastrop
Mrs. Wilbur Eldridge Sisson of Columbia
Sadie Spier of Bastrop
Ruth Spier of Bastrop
Ollie Vivian Spier who is teaching in Jackson, Mississippi
Ida Spier of Bastrop who is teaching in Shreveport, Louisiana
Three sons:
Hugo Spier of Bastrop
J. B. Spier of Bastrop
Lawrence Spier a student at LSU in Baton Rouge
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son of Jefferson B Spier & Sarah Bowen
1880 Union Parish LA census
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Jefferson B. Speir 44 Self (Head)
Ana J. Speir 38 Wife
WILLIAM J. SPEIR 19 SON
John A. Speir 15 Son
James E. Speir 12 Son
Josephine Speir 10 Daughter
Lena Speir 8 Daughter
Arthur Speir 5 Son
Samuel Speir 3 Son
WILLIAM J. SPIER
Well Known Morehouse Parish Citizen Dies at His Home in Bastrop Wednesday
Following an illness covering a period of more than a year, Mr. William J. Spier died at his home, 502 South Washington Street, Bastrop, at 1:30 pm Wednesday afternoon, being 65 years, 7 months and 23 days old at the time of his death. During his recent illness, Mr. Spier was taken to a Monroe sanitarium, where he underwent an operation and everything was done to relieve his suffering and to restore him to his former health, but in vain.
Mr. Spier was a native of Union Parish but removed to this parish when a young man, and was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Johnson, who died in 1923. Settling in Ward Two after his marriage, deceased followed the pursuit of farming and reared a large family. Several years ago, he removed to Bastrop where he had lived. Mr. Spier was a good, honest, Christian man and was an asset to the community in which he lived. Ones of his aims in life was to rear his family upright and to educate them and to this end he was quite successful. He belonged to the Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held at the Spier residence at 2:30 pm yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Alonzo Early of the Methodist Church and interment followed in Christ Church Cemetery, with F. P. Robinson, undertaker, in charge.
Mr. Spier is survived by one brother:
Mr. Ott Spier of Monroe
Three sisters:
Mrs. Arthur Arthur Edwards of Union Parish
Mrs. Rufus Allen of Union Parish
Mrs. Charles Barr of Union Parish
Mr. Spier is survived by his six daughters:
Mrs. Wayne Montgomery of Bastrop
Mrs. Wilbur Eldridge Sisson of Columbia
Sadie Spier of Bastrop
Ruth Spier of Bastrop
Ollie Vivian Spier who is teaching in Jackson, Mississippi
Ida Spier of Bastrop who is teaching in Shreveport, Louisiana
Three sons:
Hugo Spier of Bastrop
J. B. Spier of Bastrop
Lawrence Spier a student at LSU in Baton Rouge
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son of Jefferson B Spier & Sarah Bowen
1880 Union Parish LA census
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Jefferson B. Speir 44 Self (Head)
Ana J. Speir 38 Wife
WILLIAM J. SPEIR 19 SON
John A. Speir 15 Son
James E. Speir 12 Son
Josephine Speir 10 Daughter
Lena Speir 8 Daughter
Arthur Speir 5 Son
Samuel Speir 3 Son
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