Heather: Mother, Anna Maria’s father, Richard Anthony Spencer, died when he was less than thirty years old. What did he die from? | Audrey Mae Spencer

Audrey Mae Spencer ♦ Spencer Historical Cemetery ♦ Henry Straight / William Spencer Family Cemetery
Vaughn Historical Cemetery ♦ Spencers of East Greenwich, RI

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27 June 2004

Heather: Mother, Anna Maria’s father, Richard Anthony Spencer, died when he was less than thirty years old. What did he die from?

Audrey: I don’t know for sure. There was a story about climbing a tree and one fell. I do not know for sure.^*

^*^{Richard Anthony Spencer, Anna Maria’s father, died in New York on 5-27-1845, so more than likely Audrey’s comment on falling from tree refers to someone else.}

Colonial Ancestors, Conversations Anna Marie, Richard Anthony Spencer

Heather: Tell me about Grandma’s sister, Martha, who married Harry and who named her second son, Raymond and everyone called him Ray. Didn’t you tell me that gave you the idea for Vaughn’s middle name, Ray. Heather: Hello Mother. Let’s talk ancestry today. Was “little sick grandma” – your grandmother, Anna Maria or was it her mother, Ann Almy Tarbox Spencer?