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Surnames: Spaulding, Lyon, Russell, Connett, Wilson
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Historical Hand Atlas
History of Wells County, Indiana
Published 1881
IR 917.727 Hi
Page 223
Mary A. Spaulding residing in Chester township, removed to Wells county in 1844. She was
born in Miami county, ohio, July 26, 1830. She is a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth
(Lyon) Russell, settlers of Wells county in October, 1844. She was married in Wells
county, Indiana, in 1848, to Freeman H. Spaulding. Her children are: Nancy A. Connett,
born September 29, 1849; James V. Spaulding, May 22, 1858, deceased: William S. Spaulding,
July 2, 1860; Alonzo R. Spaulding, August 20, 1862, deceased; Edmund J. Spaulding,
November 12, 1867. Mrs. Spaulding’s second husband served in the late war, a member of
153d Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was discharged in 1865. John Wilson, a
brother-in-law of Mary Spaulding, died in the service. Business, farming. Address,
Montpelier, Blackford county, Indiana.
Typed by Kathy Davis