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Abner Mercer Spragg

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Abner Mercer Spragg

Birth
Kings, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
Death
24 Oct 1923 (aged 76)
Burial
Bellvue, Larimer County, Colorado, USA Add to Map
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"Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska", p. 731:

Abner R. Spragg was a leading agriculturists of Kirkwood precinct, Rock county, Nebraska.
Born on the above date (same birthday as his father) in Norton, Kings Co., New Brunswick, the ninth child William and Jane (Burnett) Spragg (the mother being of German descent). His father died when he was 9 years old.

On April 8, 1870 near Middleton, Buchanan county, Iowa, Mr. Abner Spragg married Miss Florence Bassett, whose parents had been old settlers in Iowa. Their children were...Ivis, now a widow; Jessie, wife of Cassius Brubaker, of Fort Collins, Colorado; Agnes, who married J. C. Herron, of Spokane, Washington; Bertha, wife of Clarence Dillon, of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Minnie, now Mrs. Columbus Baker, of Douglas county, Washington, and Flora, wife of Daniel Shunn, of Gregory, South Dakota.

After their marriage, they migrated to Rock county, arriving at Stuart before its organization, and homesteaded on section 4, township 31. range 17 where they farmed and had a fruit orchard. He was a Republican and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodge of Newport
"Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska", p. 731:

Abner R. Spragg was a leading agriculturists of Kirkwood precinct, Rock county, Nebraska.
Born on the above date (same birthday as his father) in Norton, Kings Co., New Brunswick, the ninth child William and Jane (Burnett) Spragg (the mother being of German descent). His father died when he was 9 years old.

On April 8, 1870 near Middleton, Buchanan county, Iowa, Mr. Abner Spragg married Miss Florence Bassett, whose parents had been old settlers in Iowa. Their children were...Ivis, now a widow; Jessie, wife of Cassius Brubaker, of Fort Collins, Colorado; Agnes, who married J. C. Herron, of Spokane, Washington; Bertha, wife of Clarence Dillon, of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Minnie, now Mrs. Columbus Baker, of Douglas county, Washington, and Flora, wife of Daniel Shunn, of Gregory, South Dakota.

After their marriage, they migrated to Rock county, arriving at Stuart before its organization, and homesteaded on section 4, township 31. range 17 where they farmed and had a fruit orchard. He was a Republican and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen lodge of Newport


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