Margaret Etta Spencer, wife of Levi Harrison Case and mother of Levi Freeman Case, was a descendent of two pioneer families from Tennessee and Arkansas.

Our Spencer ancestors have been traced back to Charles Spencer, who was born in 1774 somewhere in the colony of North Carolina.  He married a Sarah _______, who was born in South Carolina in 1773.  We do not yet know their parents, nor how they fared in the Revolution.  Nor do we yet know where or when they were married.  We do know from later census reports that they were in the new state of Tennessee in 1800 when Sarah bore her first child,  our ancestor  James Spencer.

 A quick  review of early Tennessee will help get a feel for what conditions were like for these pioneers:

The state now known as Tennessee was originally the far westerly territory of North Carolina before the revolution.  It was Indian country, and some early woodsmen ventured out there to trap furs and trade with the local Indians. This early fur trade wiped out most of the local wildlife before the revolution.

In 1754, the contest between the French and English for control of the New World erupted in the French and Indian War. The close of that war included a treaty that prohibited settling on Indian land.  Back-country Virginians and Carolinans ignored the prohibition and, by the early 1770s, four different communities had been established in northeastern Tennessee. Early  land speculators rushed into the area hoping to buy cheap land from the Indians and resell it to settlers. One enterprising guy from North Carolina boldly arranged a private "treaty" with the Cherokee for purchase of what is now most of Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. Not all the Indians recognized that scam, and in 1776, the Cherokee launched attacks on the settlers, who defended themselves with help from the militia of North Carolina and Virginia.  This conflict helped push the Indians to the British side during the Revolution, which gave the Americans a pretext for encroaching even further into Indian lands. 

After the revolution, people in the Carolinas pressed west over the Appalachians by way of covered wagons over the Cumberland Gap to the Mississippi River, which was the Easterly boundary of  French territory.  Nashville was settled by 300 pioneers in 1779.  East and Central Tennessee was formed into counties of South Carolina's between 1777 and 1788.  However,  South Carolina did not want the cost of maintaining such distant settlements, and the locals, in 1784, formed their own state of Franklin.  The leaders of this break-away state made overtures for an alliance with Spain, which controlled lands south of Tennessee.  Those stirrings of independence made South Carolina pay more attention to its far-flung lands, and it began to reassert control over Tennessee.  The  state of Franklin died in 1788 after a short life.  When South Carolina ratified the new U.S. Constitution in 1789, it ceded its western lands to the new Federal government, which opened it for settlement.  Land speculators  again made a rush to Tennessee, and created a booming market before settlers actually arrived.

In 1792, Cherokee and Creek warriors, trying to hold back the tide of settlers, started launching raiding parties  and virtual war broke out. It took a concerted effort by the settlers to quell this uprising, and by 1795, Tennessee had the required 60,000 population for statehood.  Tennessee became the 16th state, and the first territory to be so admitted. 

This map of Tennessee in 1795 shows how sparsely it was settled, and what a large presence the Indians still were.

 Andrew Jackson was Tennessee's first congressional representative, a judge, TN Militia Major General and hero of the War of 1812, before he became President. He was a huge popular hero to the independent pioneers, and many families named their sons after him, including a family that had our ancestor, Andrew Jackson Black.

Charles and Sarah's other children we know of, all born in Tennessee, were: John, Moses, Charles Jr., Samuel and Sarah.

John Spencer married Rachel _______, and they were in Illinois in 1829 when their first child, Moses was born.

Moses married Delilah _______ in Tennessee, and they had two children there: Mary in 1832 and Sophia in 1834.

Our James Spencer married another Sarah _______, who was also born in Tennessee about 1810.  They had four Tennessee born children: Betsy in 1824, Elizabeth in 1829, and George in 1832.

Sometime about 1836, our Spencers were apparently attracted by "free land" and virgin territory in the new state of Arkansas.  There were, of course, no trains, planes or busses, so our family joined a wagon train.  This group went from central Tennessee to Northern Arkansas over high, rough mountains through new country where those "pesky Indians" were still not pacified. And what a group.  We do not know who else was in the convoy, but our Spencers included:

• The Senior Charles at 62, and his Sarah, who was 61

• Our James was 36, and his Sarah was 26.  Their children were: 12 year old Betsy, 7 year old Elizabeth and young George at 4.  (and no porta-potty in sight)

• We don't know if John was on this trek, although he does show up in Arkansas in 1838.

• Moses was 29, and Delilah 27. Their daughter Mary was then 4 and Sophia was 2.

• Charles, Jr. was single at 17--as was Samuel at 13.

The 1840 census shows this intrepid family to have settled in Madison County, in the North of Arkansas.  Madison County was then bordered on the North by  what was still Indian Territory. Our James settled his family first in Franklin County, just south of Madison.  The birth of John Spencer's son, David, in 1838, lets us know he had brought his family to Arkansas, also.

Charles, Jr. and his brother Samuel had both married Tennessee born girls after arriving in Arkansas. Charles married Elizabeth Cantwell in 1838, and Samuel married a Martha ______, who was born about 1832.

By 1850, James had moved his family a little north into the Bowen Township of Madison County, near his parents Charles and Sarah.  Counted in the 1850 census with the Senior Charles, then 76, and Sarah at 75, was their 21 year old daughter Sarah.

Our James and Sarah had these additional children, born after arriving in Tennessee:

• Isabella (Ibey) Spencer, born in 1836

• Mary Spencer, born 1841

• James, Jr. born in 1842

• Charity Spencer was born in 1844

• Charles Edward Spencer, born August 18, 1846

• Margaret "Peggy" Caroline Spencer was born January 2, 1849

I have not yet found our James and Sarah in the 1860 census, He would have been about 60, and may have passed before 1860, or I might just have not found them yet. 

On April 26, 1868, Charles Edward Spencer married Sarah Percy Black, daughter of a preacher-man. They were married in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in what was then Hot Springs County, now  Garland County.

Sarah Percy's family is little known, and I wish I knew more, because I think they must have been a very interesting family: A. J. Black was a life-long frontier teacher and preacher who had young, probably orphaned, children in their homes.  Sarah Black seems to have been an educated woman, in a time when it was unusual.  She picked intriguing and creative names for her children, and in later years had foster children.

Charles and Sarah  had their first child George Alexander Whitfield Spencer, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas on  February 26, 1869 and the three of them appear in the 1870 census in the home of Sarah's parents Andrew Jackson  and Mahaley Black in Hot Springs.  

Charles and Sarah had a daughter, Lavatia Octavia Spencer, born in September of 1870, in Arkansas--they also had Belle Spencer in 1872 (not shown in 1880 or later census),  and Mary Alice Spencer in October of 1874.  By 1876, when their daughter Hattie was born, they had left Hot Springs and moved west to Wise County, Texas, near the little town of  Decatur, where Charles was a farmer. George Spencer died sometime after the 1900 census--Sarah shows up in 1910 as a widow.  I have not been able to find out when, where or how Charles Spencer died.  In 1910, Sarah was living with her children and in 1920 was living with Horace Spencer.  She died in Decatur, TX December 24, 1921 and is buried there in the Oaklawn cemetery.

 Sarah Percy Black/Spencer with son Fred.  Fred's apparent age would date the picture at about 1915....

Charles and Sarah Spencer's other children, all born in Texas, were:

• Harriet Rita Maria "Hattie" Spencer, born December 23, 1876 in Decatur.  

• Alonzo Walter Spencer, born December 9, 1878, Decatur, Texas. 

• Horace Edward Jackson Spencer, born November 1, 1880, Decatur, Texas.  

• Margaret Etta Spencer, Born April  22, 1883 in Texas        

• Pearl Mae Spencer, born September, 1885 in Texas.

• William Mitchell Spencer, born August, 1887 in Bell, Texas.

• Frederick Henry Spencer, April of 1889 in Texas.

• Myrtle Glen Spencer, born April of 1891 in Texas.

Here's what I know, so far, of the families of CHARLES EDWARD SPENCER AND SARAH PERCY BLACK's children:

George Alexander Whitfield Spencer born in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas on  February 26, 1869. He married Asalee McNatt in Bowie, Texas, on February 21, 1897.  They were in Decatur for the 1900 census, where it described George as a "merchant" of "hot tamales".  They were living not far from George's sisters Lavatia and Maggie and their husbands. George died in 1917 and, except for his wife, his remaining family  was in Southern California during the 1920 census.  George's decendents, as far as I know, are still there.

This picture is the George A. W. Spencer family about 1915...

The boys would be, left to right: Harry Evertt Spencer 1897-1919
Wendell Oliver Spencer (Sr.)1899-1966

On the far right would be George's wife Asalee McNatt, and next to her (right to left) has to be

 Edith Pearl Spencer 1901-1975, Dorothy Asalee Spencer 1903- 1927, Agatha 1907-? and the girl on the far left would be Lois Rachell, 1904-1924. 

Decendants of George Alexander Whitfield SPENCER

 Generation No. 1

1.  GEORGE ALEXANDER WHITFIELD⁴ SPENCER  (CHARLES EDWARD³, JAMES², CHARLES¹) was born February 26, 1869 in Little Rock, Pulaski, AR, and died June 23, 1917.  He married ASALEE MC NATT February 21, 1897 in Bowie, Montague, TX, daughter of JOHN MC NATT and ANNIE OLIVER.  She was born April 17, 1871 in Little Rock, Pulaski, AR, and died August 21, 1944 in Ventura, Ventura, CA. George is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, CA and Asalee is buried at Ivy Lawn cemetery, Ventura, CA.

Children of GEORGE SPENCER and ASALEE MC NATT are:

                   i.       HARRY EVERETT⁵ SPENCER, b. December 04, 1897, Decatur, Wise, TX; d. May 14, 1919.

2.               ii.       WENDELL OLIVER SPENCER, b. April 20, 1899, Decatur, Wise, TX; d. January 07, 1966, Montebello, Los Angeles, CA.

                 iii.       EDITH PEARL SPENCER, b. November 14, 1901, Decatur, Wise, TX; d. July 11, 1975; m. CARL LEON KARPAN, September 11, 1918

                iv.       DOROTHY ASALEE SPENCER, b. March 23, 1903, Decatur, Wise, TX; d. September 10, 1927; m. THOMAS BRAY WALES, April 15, 1926, Montague Co., TX

                 v.       LOIS RACHELL SPENCER, b. October 18, 1904, Bowie, Montague, TX; d. May 30, 1924; m. HOMER CASE; b. Abt. 1900, Bowie, Montague, TX (prob).

                 vi.       ROY SPENCER, b. March 21, 1905, Bowie, Montague, TX; d. March 21, 1905.

                vii.       EUGENE SPENCER, b. October 14, 1910, Bowie, Montague, TX; d. October 16, 1910.

               viii.       Agatha SPENCER.

Generation No. 2

2.  WENDELL OLIVER⁵ SPENCER (GEORGE ALEXANDER WHITFIELD⁴, CHARLES EDWARD³, JAMES², CHARLES¹) was born April 20, 1899 in Decatur, Wise, TX, and died January 07, 1966 in Montebello, Los Angeles, CA.  He married (1) MARY ELLEN HURLBUT, daughter of EDWIN HURLBUT and ALICE WILSON.  She was born September 17, 1901 in Berkley, Arapahoe, CO, and died August 29, 1955 in Belvedere, Los Angeles, CA.  He married (2) MARGARET BLACKBURN SHARBONOUG June 26, 1956 in Los Angeles, CA.  MAry Ellen burial: Forest Lawn Cem., Glendale, CA

  Children of WENDELL SPENCER and MARY HURLBUT are:

                   i.       WILLIAM GLEN⁶ SPENCER, b. September 11, 1921, Los Angeles, CA; d. September 26, 1978.

                  ii.       JOHN GEORGE SPENCER, b. 1923, Belvedere, Los Angeles, CA; d. 1924.

                 iii.       ROBERT JAMES SPENCER, b. August 29, 1930, Ventura County, CA.

                 iv.    Wendell Oliver  SPENCER, Jr.

Lavatia Octavia Spencer, born in September of 1870, in Arkansas. She married Rudolphus Case in Chico, Wise County, TX November 15, 1893. She died in Los Angeles December 18, 1946.  Their family was very close to the family of my grandfather Levi Harrison Case, who married Lavatia's sister Margaret.  Lavatia "Aunt Tade" and Rudolphus Case's family is treated in a separate page.

Mary Alice Spencer, born in Arkansas , October of 1874.  Mary Alice "Mollie" Spencer married Daniel Pavillard in Decatur, September 24, 1893 in Wise County, Texas.  He was born July of 1870 in Texas, son of  Louis Cordell Pavillard, immigrant from Orny, Switzerland and his second wife Zilphia Elizabeth Broadstreet. Dan and Mollie were in Decatur in 1900, and migrated later to Amarillo, Texas. She died in Amarillo, January 11, 1965.  

Their children were:

• Charles E. (Edward or Edmund) "Charlie" Pavillard, born about 1887.   In 1920, he was in Potter County, TX with a wife, Hattie.  They had two sons: Jim Dan Pavillard who married Wilma Eileen ______and had a daughter Linda Kay.  Their second son was  Louis Cordell Pavillard, born July 28, 1915--died August, 1985 in Collin County, TX.  Louis married Mary Louise Lacey, and they had a daughter Cordelia and a son Thomas. Thomas Pavilard married Trena Wilson, and they had a daughter Mary Carol and a son Charles.

• Jewell E. Pavillard, born June 23, 1894 in Decatur, TX. She married a Mr. Scott and they had a son Gordon Scott  and a daughter Dorothy

• Drew Pavillard, born September of 1895--died as a teen from an accident

• Samuel Roy Pavillard, born March 30, 1897 in  Decatur, TX

• William Haskell "Rastus" Pavillard, born January 18, 1900 in Decatur. In the 1920 census, he was a lodger in Amarillo, TX.

• Mildred Pavillard--married a Mr. Vail

• Elizabeth Pavillard.  She married a Mr. Rietman.

• Dean Brack Pavillard born March 13, 1911--died October 19, 1988 at Amarillo, TX.  He married Patricia Graham (who was born 5/22/1908 and died 9/11/1994 at Eugene, OR)  They had two sons: Dean Bob Pavillard  born March 3, 1911 and died January 25, 1990 in Amarillo.  Their second son, Dan Pavillard, was born in Amarillo, TX on December 26, 1932--died September 5, 2002 at Eugene, OR. ---- Oregon Arts Commission newsletter State of the Art, Spring 2001:  "Governor Kitzhaber to Honor Six with Governor's Arts Awards...
  
  ...Dan Pavillard, arts advisor and advocate and philanthropist from Eugene, distinguished for his financial support of the arts, as well as his volunteer efforts on behalf of arts organizations. Pavillard has been called "the Johnny Appleseed of the grand pianos" for having given a new Steinway concert grand to the Eugene Symphony and for helping other performing arts organizations, churches and universities across the country acquire new pianos as well. Now retired, Pavillard generously uses his years of experience as an orchestra manager and professional fundraiser to advise numerous statewide groups"...
  

 Mollie Spencer/Pavillard with her sister Pearly-Mae.

    This one below, does not have any identification, but it was in Maggie Spencer/Case's collection and has to be Mollie's family. 

Harriet Rita Maria "Hattie" Spencer, born December 23, 1876 in Decatur.  She married Paul Atkinson in 1894, and then married William Frederick Robinson August 11,  1896 in Decatur, Wise County, TX.  They were  in Decatur in the 1900 census, then in 1910, Fred Robinson was a painter, and they were living in Corpus Christie, TX with Hattie's sister Lavatia and Rudolphus Case family. The 1920 census shows Hattie as widowed, and she and her children Glen, Nora and Spencer were living with her brothers Walter and Fred.  Harriet and some of her children later joined her sisters in southern California.  She died February 28, 1962 in Los Angeles County, CA. and is buried at Crafton Cemetery, Crafton, TX.

Children of Harriet Rita Maria Spencer and William Frederick Robinson:

Generation No. 1

1.  WILLIAM FREDERICK¹ ROBINSON was born June 12, 1872 in Decatur, Texas, and died February 28, 1914 in Trumble, TN.  He married HARRIET RITA MARIA SPENCER August 11, 1896 in Wise County, Texas, daughter of CHARLES SPENCER and SARAH BLACK.  She was born December 23, 1876 in Hot Springs, AR, and died February 28, 1962 in Los Angeles County, CA.

Children of WILLIAM ROBINSON and HARRIET SPENCER are:

1. WILLIAM GLENN² ROBINSON, b. June 04, 1897, Clay County, Texas; d. November 07, 1948, Los Angeles County, CA

2. JOSEPH ELMO ROBINSON, b. September 30, 1899, Decatur, Wise County, Texas; d. January 25, 1987, Oceanside, San Diego County, CA.

3. CARL EDWARD ROBINSON, b. September 02, 1901, Wise County, TX; d. December 07, 1966, Glendale, Los Angeles County, CA.

4. STELLA PEARL ROBINSON, b. July 31, 1903, Jack County, Texas; d. February 25, 1990, California; m. ??? BURT.--burial Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, UT

                    Stella married and Mr. Burt, and had a daughter Winnie.  Winnie married a Mr. Zobell and they had a daughter Pearl.

5. NORA MAE ROBINSON, b. April 29, 1908, Hall County, Texas; d. January 25, 1984, El Dorado County, CA; m. SHAW.--she may have lived in Placerville, CA

6. (2) SPENCER LEE ROBINSON, b. July 17, 1911, Loma Linda, San Bernardino, CA; d. February 05, 1983, Provo, Utah.

7. DAVID JAY ROBINSON, b. March 15, 1905, Clay County, Texas; d. March 17, 1905, Clay County, Texas.

Generation No. 2

2.  SPENCER LEE² ROBINSON (WILLIAM FREDERICK¹) was born July 17, 1911 in Loma Linda, San Bernardino, CA, and died February 05, 1983 in Provo, Utah.  He married MARJORIE ANN STEWART December 29, 1933 in Reno, NV, daughter of JOHN STEWART and ETTA.  She was born December 15, 1911 in Los Angeles County, CA. Spencer's burial--Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, UT

Children of SPENCER ROBINSON and MARJORIE STEWART are:

1. (3) WILLIAM FREDERICK³ ROBINSON II

2. (4) RICHARD LEE ROBINSON, b. March 23, 1938, Glendale, Los Angeles County, CA; d. September 23, 1990, Price, UT.

Generation No. 3

3.  WILLIAM FREDERICK³ ROBINSON II (SPENCER LEE², WILLIAM FREDERICK¹) .  He married (1) JUDY RIDING.   He married (2) LINDA CASPER.    He married (3) COLLEEN TEW.    He married (4) CATHERINE PETERSON.

        Child of WILLIAM ROBINSON and LINDA CASPER is:  KALE⁴ ROBINSON.

         Children of WILLIAM ROBINSON and CATHERINE PETERSON are: Jennifer Robinson, William Frederick Robinson III, Anita Lynn Robinson and Robert Spencer Robinson.

4.  RICHARD LEE³ ROBINSON (SPENCER LEE², WILLIAM FREDERICK¹) was born March 23, 1938 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, CA, and died September 23, 1990 in Price, UT.  He married JEANINE KATHERINE O'HERN, daughter of MICHAEL O'HERN and CHRISTINE ERICKSON.   They later divorced.  

        Children of RICHARD ROBINSON and JEANINE O'HERN are:

1. (5) RICHARD LEE⁴ ROBINSON, JR.,

2. (6) DANIEL WADE ROBINSON, 

3. (7) WAYNE DAVID ROBINSON.

Generation No. 4

5.  RICHARD LEE⁴ ROBINSON, JR (RICHARD LEE³, SPENCER LEE², WILLIAM FREDERICK¹) married JULIE TENHOEVE .

        Children of RICHARD ROBINSON and JULIE TENHOEVE are:

1. JESSICA PEARL⁵ ROBINSON

2. JODY FRANCIS SPENCER ROBINSON

3. KILEY ASIA ROBINSON

6.  DANIEL WADE⁴ ROBINSON (RICHARD LEE³, SPENCER LEE², WILLIAM FREDERICK¹)  married CINDY ANN MILLER.

        Child of DANIEL ROBINSON and CINDY MILLER is:  SPENCER DANIEL⁵ ROBINSON. 

7.  WAYNE DAVID⁴ ROBINSON (RICHARD LEE³, SPENCER LEE², WILLIAM FREDERICK¹)  married JAMIE LYN WATSON.

        Children of WAYNE ROBINSON and JAMIE WATSON are:

1. TYLER DAVID⁵ ROBINSON

2. CAITLYN MARIE ROBINSON

3. KEYLEE ANNE ROBINSON

4. RYAN MICHAEL ROBINSON

Hattie Robinson and Grandkids           Hattie and sister Myrtle           Hattie in 4 generations---Stella Burt, Winnie Zobell and g-grandaughter Pearl.

Alonzo Walter Spencer, born December 9, 1878, Decatur, Texas. Walter "Uncle Shorty" Spencer lost both his legs when he fell trying to jump a freight train.  He was a "boot-black" in Decatur, TX at least until the depression.  In 1920,  the Decatur census listed Walter, then 41,  as head of family, a "Boot Black" , and with him was his 72 year-old mother Sarah, brother Fred, who worked in a restaurant (Horace's ?), his widowed sister Hattie Robinson with her children Glen, Nora and Spencer, as well as two foster-children.  He can be found in the Decatur census of 1930, which indicates he was first married in 1905, a "shoe-shiner" and married to a (widowed?) Lillie Hoffman--who brought to the marriage her sons S.C. Hoffman, Jr., James and Paul.  

I recall meeting Uncle Shorty in Los Angeles about 1943. The family had gathered for a visit with, I think, Levi Case, who was in the last stages of Parkinson's disease and not expected to live.  Someone in the family had found Uncle Shorty in downtown Los Angeles, where he was selling pencils.  I recall overhearing that he refused any money, just wanted to make his own living.  At the time, he was a jovial guy and a great playmate for us small kids--we wrestled with him on the lawn before he went in to pay his respects. He later returned to Decatur and there married Annie Bernice Taylor  on June 8, 1945.  Walter Spencer died   in 1953 and Annie died  in 1954. They are both buried in Oaklawn cemetery in Decatur.

Horace Edward Jackson Spencer, born November 1, 1880, Decatur, Texas.  and died June 06, 1948 in Decatur, Wise Co.,Texas. He married ROSA LEE THOMAS Abt. 1906. She was born September 13, 1890 in Arkansas, and died June 22, 1968 in Ventura County, CA.   HORACE EDWARD JACKSON SPENCER was buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Decatur, TX.   Horace  was a Cafe owner (carrying on his brother George's tamale business?).  With him in Decatur in 1920 were his wife Rosa, their daughters Opal, Vera and Francis, as well as their son Horace, Jr. By the 1930 census  he dropped the name of Horace and was listed as Edward Spencer.  He also, by 1930, had dropped the restaurant business and had become a painter.   Horace's family in 1930 still included daughters Vera and Frances, and sons "Edward", Jay, Ralph, Thomas and a Darrell--born about 1929.

Children of HORACE SPENCER and ROSA THOMAS are:

• THELMA OPAL SPENCER, b. August 22, 1907, Decatur, Wise Co.,Texas; d. December 05, 1987, Greenville, SC.  She married DORRIS WILLIAM ADAMS and they had at least one child: BOB HORTON ADAMS, b. July 12, 1930, Wise County, TX; I think he died November 25, 1988, Plant City, Hillsboro, FL.

• VERA IMOGENE SPENCER, b. July 21, 1909, Malvern, Hot Springs, AR.   She married GEORGE CHRISTOPHER DAUGHETEE and they had 2 children that I know of: ROSE MARIE DAUGHETEE,  and EDWARD DREW DAUGHETEE.

• FRANCIS MARIE SPENCER, b. July 28, 1911, Decatur, Wise Co.,Texas. 

• HORACE EDWARD SPENCER, b. July 22, 1918, Decatur, Wise Co.,Texas. 

• JAY SPENCER, b. 1922

• RALPH SPENCER, b. 1924

• THOMAS ROGER SPENCER, b. January 21, 1927, Wise County, TX; d. May 1963.

• DAVID LEE SPENCER, b. August 04, 1928, Wise County, TX

• DARREL SPENCER, b. about 1929

• DONALD RICHARD SPENCER, b. February 07, 1932.

   Horace and Rosa's daughters, Thelma, Vera and Francis

             Horace Spencer with his sister Myrtle on the right, and ?? on the left.            

Margaret Etta Spencer, born Born April  22, 1883 in Texas. Margaret "Maggie" Spencer was my grandmother, married to Levi Harrison Case. Their family is covered in a separate section.

  Maggie Spencer at 14.  She is holding her 14 month old niece, Mabel Mae Case, daughter of Maggie's sister Lavatia Spencer and Rudolphus Case.

Pearl Mae "Pearly-Mae" Spencer. She was born September, 1885 in Texas, and that's about all I've been able to find out about her.

   This picture appears to be the Spencer family home in Decatur, Texas.  Seated on the right is Pearly-Mae and on the Left is her sister Myrtle Glenn Spencer.

William Mitchell Spencer, born August, 1887 in Bell, Texas. William  Spencer died September 30, 1943 in Pasadena, CA. He and his wife Ethel, for a time, owned a restaurant in Glendale.  According to his death certificate, he moved to California about 1933, was a bartender,  and was divorced from Ethel Spencer...I have found no known children born to William and Ethel.  He was buried at Inglewood cemetery...informant was Mrs. Myrtle McGowan (probably his sister, Myrtle Glen Spencer?) of South Pasadena. 

Frederick Henry Spencer, Born November 23, 1889 in Texas. Fred H. Spencer also died in Pasadena, California, December 13, 1968.  He apparently never married, was a "Self-employed" Chef for 40 years and was last living  in Pasadena, after having left Decatur and moved to California about 1928.  Informant on his death certificate was a Mr. Robinson of San Pedro, CA --more than likely one of  Hattie Spencer/Robinson's sons or grandsons (?)

Myrtle Glen Spencer, born April of 1891 in Texas.  Finding Myrtle has, so far, been unsuccessful. I feel she must have moved to Southern California with the rest of the Spencers, but have not been able to verify.  When William Mitchell Spencer died in 1943,  the informant for his death certificate was Mrs. Myrtle McGowan of South Pasadena,  who I think must by our Myrtle Glenn. 

  This is Myrtle (probably in Southern California) with her older sister Lavatia Octavia (Aunt Tade).

And that's all I know.    We, undoubtedly have Robinson and Spencer cousins in Southern California and maybe still in Decatur, Texas, who would know more about the Spencer history, but I have not yet been able to identify them. The above pictures and those below, are courtesy of Ida Mae (Case) Kraft's granddaughter Dierdre Kraft, from the collection of Margaret Spencer-Case.

 This one, apparently in Southern California, about 1946? From left to right, Walter Spencer's wife Anne, then Walter, Ida Mae (Case) Kraft, Hattie (Spencer) Robinson, then Maggie (Spencer) Case ?? and with eyes shaded, Thelma Knox, Louella Case's Daughter. Lying down is  Myrtle Glen Spencer (McGowan?).

                This one is (best guess) L2R Octavia, Hattie, Myrtle and Maggie..

  And this one, just has to be "the whole dang bunch" of Spencer girls.......and one extra???

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