Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1884, NOV. 804 H. SPICER HIRAM SPICER. Born in Bourbon County, Ky., Feb. 19, 1803; died in Platte April 28, 1887. He was estimable and hard-working farmer. They came to Platte in 1843. Mrs. Spicer was a Hansford, and we will presently notice that family. Children: I. WILLIAM SPICER II. ELIZABETH SPICER. married Jan. 24, 1852. Eli J. Link. (See.) III. JOHN SPICER. went to California, married, and died. IV. MARY H. SPICER, married E. B. Burkhead. of Lincoln Co., Mo. V. AMOS. H. SPICER, married Sarah A. Smith, dr. of William Smith. VI. MAHLON SPIOER, Went to the Indian Nation. VII. NANCY SPICER. married Nov. 12, 1878, Ed. H. Berry, an Englishman, 3 children. VIII. LUCY SPICER, married Dec. 1, 1870, William Wallace Rule (i), who died in Dec., 1889. leaving: 1. Lena Rule 2. Wm. H. Rule 3. Emmet M. Rule. 4. Wallace Rule They live in Clay. IX. GEO. W. SPICER, b. Nov. 26, 1847; married March 12, 1874. Mary Elmore, b. Jan. 4, 1855. Children: 1. Ola Spicer 2. John Spicer 3. Geo. W. Spicer(ii). 4. Elmore Spicer. 5. A babe. X. BEN F. SPICER, b. Aug. 5. 1851; married May 10, 1873, Elizabeth Arnlold, dr. of John T. XI. MARTHA A. SPICIER. married Nov. 22, 1877, Reuben R. Smith, son of William Smith. Both dead. 1 child. THE HANSFORDS. Four daughters of William Hansford, of Bourbon County, Ky., came to Platte: I. ELIZA HANSFORD. married H. Spicer (above). II. FRANCES HANSFORD. married Eli Link. (See) III. NANCY HANSFORD, married March 4, 1849, in Boone Co., Ky., Col. Gideon W. Thompson, b. in Todd Co., Ky., Feb. 28, 1823. His parents, Robert Thompson, of North Ca.1o1ina, and Eveline Roberts. lived in Kentucky. The father died in 1857. In 1844 Col. Thompson settled in Platte, on the line of Clay. 1. Martha Thompson, married Geo. Sutton 2. Elizabeth Thompson, married D. A. Chance (See.) 3. James Thompson, lives in Jefferson Co., Kansas 4. Gideon; lives in Georgetown, Colorado