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Audrey Mae (neé Spencer) MacDonald’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Historical Cemetery

No. 36 John Spencer

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, John Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Six. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of John Spencer, a eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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Audrey Mae posted a small clipping of an American flag next to John’s gravestone on her artistically designed cemetery map. The flag denotes the gravestone is a a gravestone of a person who fought in one of the American wars. This John was in Company A of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment in the American Civil War.

Bruce MacGunnigle – 44

This John Spencer, the son of John Anthony and Jamima, was in the Civil War and died at age 19. Did he die in battle or sickness as 500,000 other soldiers had?

John born in 1843 is the son of John Anthony (gravestone No. 32) and Jamima Maxim Spencer (gravestone No. 31.) John Anthony is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer. Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer. Continue reading →

No. 37 Walter Spencer

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Walter’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Seven. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Walter Spencer and his siblings, seventh-generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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(2013 Update: More research is needed. Audrey Mae has Walter’s date of death as 6-19-1907 and Bruce MacGunnigle’s book has 6-18-1857, but the gravestone inscription clearly has 6-18-188_. Anyone who has done this work knows how painstaking difficult and tedious this work is. It is almost impossible to be correct 100% of the time. More research is needed.)

Walter born in 1854 is the son of John Anthony (gravestone No. 32) and Jamima Maxim (gravestone No. 31) Spencer.

Bruce MacGunnigle – 43

John Anthony is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer. Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer.

Of the six children of John Anthony and Jamima in this graveyard, Walter is the only one of the six children to live beyond age 19. Walter, being too young at the time of the Civil War, escaped that possible death sentence. According to Audrey Mae, he lived to be age 53, but more research is needed because of the discrepancy with different dates of death. Still he died at a younger age than his parents, his grandparents, his great grandparents. Continue reading →

No. 38 Anna Lucia Evarone

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Anna Lucia Evarone’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Eight. She shares this stone with her infant brother Frank Evarone, Jr.’s who was born three years after her death. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of the child Anna Lucia, an eleventh-generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, through her mother, Edith Anna (née Spencer) Evarone.

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No. 38 Frank Evarone, Jr.

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, infant Frank Evarone, Jr.’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Eight. He shares this stone with his older sister Anna Lucia who died three years before Frank, Jr. was born and died. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of infant Frank Evarone, Jr., an eleventh-generation Spencer in the East Greenwich area of Rhode Island, through his mother, Edith Anna (née Spencer) Evarone.

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No. 39 Richard Anthony born in 1916 & Martha (née Smith)

According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and her gravestone numbering system, Richard Anthony’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-nine. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the late 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Richard Anthony, a tenth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island:

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No. 40 Alfred Ernest (“Uncle Ern”)

According to Audrey Mae’s artistically created map diagram and her gravestone numbering system, Alfred Ernest’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Forty. Alfred Ernest (“Uncle Ern”) was Audrey Mae’s, Edith Anna’s, and John Edward’s uncle. He was their father’s younger brother. Alfred Ernest was in World War I. He was in the U.S. Navy from 1917 to 1921. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Alfred Ernest, a ninth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island:

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Bruce MacGunnigle – 41

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No. 41 Deborah Ann Jackson, Jane E.

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic map diagram and her gravestone numbering system, Deborah and Jane ‘s names are on the same gravestone, Gravestone Forty-One. Using a Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Deborah Ann and her sister Jane E., eleventh-generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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No. 42 Lottie Lee (“Aunt Lottie”)

According to Audrey’s Mae’s artistically created cemetery map design and her gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Historical Cemetery, Lottie Lee’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Forty-Two. Her spouse, Richard Augustus’s name is on the same gravestone. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Lottie: ams-42-richard-augustus

Bruce MacGunnigle – 40

Lottie’s burial is in the Spencer Family Cemetery because she was married to Richard Augustus Spencer. With her marriage to Richard, the name Gadsby came into the Spencer line.

Richard Augustus (“Uncle Rich”) is the older brother of William J.B. Spencer and Alfred Ernest Spencer (gravestone No. 40). Richard Augustus was the eldest child of Anna Maria (Mar-eye-ah) and John Johnson Spencer (Gravestone No. 8). Anna Maria was the child of Richard Anthony Spencer (Gravestone No. 7). Richard Anthony’s father was Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) Spencer. Father and son had the same name. Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) was the sixth child of John (Gravestone No. 2) and Huldah (née Johnson) Spencer (Gravestone No. 1).

Uncle Rich and Lottie Lees (neé Gadsby) Spencer and their three daughters lived in the Spencer house at Spencer’s Corner (Division, Shippeetown and Crompton Roads in East Greenwich, R.I.). Two of Richard and Lottie’s three daughters are buried in the Spencer Family Cemetery. They are Annie Eleanor (gravestone No. 43) and Amy Lees (gravestone No. 43). Continue reading →

No. 42 Richard Augustus (“Uncle Rich”)

According to Audrey’s Mae’s artistically created cemetery map design and her gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Historical Cemetery, Richard Augustus’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Forty-Two. His spouse, Lottie Lees, and he share the same gravestone No. 42. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Richard Augustus, a ninth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. ams-42-richard-augustus

Bruce MacGunnigle – 40

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No. 43-44 Richard’s & Lottie’s Children

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Gravestone 44

Gravestones No. 43-44 are the children of Richard Augustus (gravestone No. 42) and Lottie Lees (née Gadsby) Spencer (gravestone No. 43).

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Richard Augustus is the first son of Anna Maria (pronounce Mar-eye-ah) and John Johnson Spencer (shared gravestone No. 8).

Anna Maria is the daughter of Richard Anthony Spencer (gravestone No. 7) and Ann Almy (née Tarbox) Spencer.

Richard Anthony Spencer is the first son of Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) (gravestone No. 6) and Roby (née Tarbox) Spencer (gravestone No. 5).

Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) Spencer is the fourth son of John (gravestone No. 2) and Huldah (née Johnson) Spencer (gravestone No. 1).

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff, Tarbox, Whitford, and Gadsby descendants, if you have any additional information on Amy and/or Annie, please add a comment to this web site or their individual web page and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”