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AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT
Contact information on HOME page Please fill in "subject" with genealogical information so we will not mistake it for spam Direct descendant is highlighted in red
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Those individuals with an asterisks behind their names have a photo of themselves on their page.
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Married 1st: 03/May/1882 Spouse 1st: Susan Catherine Powers Married 2nd: 16/July/1890 Spouse 2nd: Sadie B. Buser
FATHER MOTHER WIFE
William Garrett Spillman married Susan Powers, a widow with a 2 1/2 year old daughter, in 1882 when he was 28. Their families may have been friends since William's older sister, Mary Spillman, married Susan's older brother, Isaac Powers, just a few months later. At any rate it was a short and stormy marriage. One of the twins died in 1887, probably deepening the rift. Susan had inherited a wagon (see page for Susan Powers) from her deceased first husband, and some money from her parents who had died in November of 1881. So, when an argument broke out over how William G. was planning to vote, she chopped up her own buggy preventing him from going to town. Susan joined a traveling wild west show, divorced William Garrett Spillman, and took her oldest daughter, Bessie, to Wyoming, but left her other two children with their father, William G. William G. Spillman remarried in 1890 to Sadie B. Buser and had another son, Roy Spillman.b 03/Sept/1891
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM G SPILLMAN AND SUSAN POWERS 1. Ethel Blanche Spillman b. 1883 2. Ray Spillman b. 31/July/1885 (see photo on Susan Powers page) 3. Ralph Spillman b. 31/July/1885 d. 02/April/1887
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