Spaid Genealogy From The First Of The Name In This Country To The Present Time

Author : Abraham Thompson Secrest
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ISBN 13 : 9781332198931
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book Spaid Genealogy From the First of the Name in This Country to the Present Time written by Abraham Thompson Secrest and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Spaid Genealogy From the First of the Name in This Country to the Present Time: With a Number of Allied Families and Many Historical Facts The desire to know something of our ancestors is very general, and the greater the Knowledge acquired the more interesting the subject becomes. For years I felt that at least I should like to know my own family line in this country, but had little or no time to devote to researches in that direction. There never was a time when the writer was not interested in family history, and this natural inclination was fostered by his venerable grandmother, whose knowledge of her people was very complete. The names of the original Spaid family and some notes on them were made at her dictation fully thirty years ago. Called home to Ohio from Texas in December, 1920, by the critical illness of my beloved father. I was amazed at the changes that had taken place in the personnel of the home community in the fifteen years that 1 had sojourned in the southwest. 1 had always realized the importance of family history to the generations that should follow, and I now saw the difficulty, if not impossibility. of gathering the history of our ancestors after a few of the older members now living should pass away; therefore I resolved to complete the work at whatever cost. During the past two years I have devoted all my time to the subject. I have searched through the musty records of churches, probate courts, old family manuscripts, and have looked through genealogical works almost without number. Not only this but I visited all the old graveyards where any number of Spaids are buried; talked with the oldest inhabitants here and there; written fully two thousand letters of inquiry, and traveled in search of information many times that number of miles. But notwithstanding my earnest labors, I am not unmindful that my work is far from complete. My ardent hope, however, is that some person in the near future may take up the subject where I leave it, and give a more full and interesting history of the family in this country than it has been possible for me to do at this time. The compiler of a family history will find himself dividing his material naturally into three classes; knotty questions that he will straighten out and lay aside, material that he uses, vexing problems that clothe his mind like sackcloth. But we have performed the dull duty of an editor to the best of our judgment with more labor than we expect thanks, without any indulgence to our private sense or conjecture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.