According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Roby Alice Spencer ‘s gravestone is Gravestone Number Forty-eight. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Roby Alice, an eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, William McGowen Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of William McGowen Spencer, a seventh- generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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More research is needed as web author lives 3000 miles from the Spencer family cemetery and it appears that the gravestone photo may not be the correct gravestone for William McGowen Spencer.
According to Audrey Mae’s mini-biography, Elizabeth Alice Potter (gravestone No. 51) married William McGowen. Web site author has no other information.
More research is needed to determine which Spencer line William belongs.
“Spencer, McGowen and Potter descendants, if you have any additional information on William McGowen Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”
According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Richard Benjamin Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Two. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Richard Benjamin Spencer, an eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
(2012 update: Reading the gravestone, Audrey Mae’s granddaughter notes 1853 as the birth year for Richard Benjamin. Also, Bruce MacGunnigle’s book report 1853).
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Audrey Mae reports that Richard Benjamin was married to Harriet Wells Bates. Web author has no information on Harriet.
Richard Benjamin’s parents:
Richard Benjamin’s siblings in the Spencer Family Cemetery:
Although Audrey Mae does not mention this in Roby Alice’s mini-biography, web site author believes that Roby Alice (née Spencer) Rathbun (gravestone No. 48) is also a sibling of Richard Benjamin. Audrey Mae mentions that two Spencer sisters married two Rathbun brothers. The Rathbun brothers’, John’s and George’s, news articles mentions the brothers marrying two daughters of Benjamin Spencer.
“Spencer. Johnson, Goff, Tarbox, Wells and Bates descendants, if you have any additional information on Richard Benjamin Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”
According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Cemetery, Audra Eleanor Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Three. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the late 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Audra Eleanor, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island:
(2012 update: From the gravestone reading and from Bruce MacGunnigle’s book, Audra’s year of death appears to be 1891. )
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According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Benjamin Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Four. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Benjamin Spencer, a seventh generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Robert Rathbun’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Four. Robert is a ninth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island because of his mother, Evelyn Augusta Spencer (gravestone No. 57) who was the first wife of John Rathbun. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Robert Rathbun:
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Robert’s parents are Evelyn Augusta Spencer (gravestone No. 57) and John Rathbun (gravestone No. 58). Evelyn Augusta is the daughter of Audra (gravestone No. 53) and Benjamin (gravestone No. 54). Audra is the daughter of Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) Spencer (gravestone No. 6) and Roby Spencer (Gravestone No. 5.) Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) is the 6th child of Huldah and John (gravestone No. 1 & 2).
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According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Alfred V. Rathbun’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Six. Alfred is a ninth-generation Spencer in the East Greenwich, Rhode Island because of his mother, Evelyn Augusta (née Spencer) who was the first wife of John Rathbun. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Alfred V. Rathbun:
Bruce MacGunnigle – 56 (same number as Audrey Mae’s numbering)
According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Historical Family Cemetery, Evelyn Augusta Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Fifty-Seven. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Evelyn Augusta Spencer, an- eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Cemetery, George Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Sixty. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the late 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of George Spencer, a tenth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Apparently, the infant George Spencer died when he was a baby. Audrey Mae left descendants no other information about this infant. Gravestone No. 61 is of a child, Grace D. Cahoon, who died in 1896–ninety years after George–at age 8 years. Grace has the same last name as George’s mother. The relationship between the baby George and the child Grace is unknown. Spencer descendants do not know the ancestry of Jess Spencer and Anna Cahoon. More research is needed.
Of note is that Audrey Mae’s brother’s, John Edward’s (“Ed’s”), daughter married into the Cahoon line of Coventry, Rhode Island in the middle of the twentieth century. This baby of gravestone number 60 died at the beginning of the nineteenth century. More research is needed on the ancestry of this baby, George Spencer.
“Spencer and Cahoon descendants, if you have any additional information on George Spencer , please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks!”
According to Audrey Mae’s artistically designed cemetery map and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system in her Spencer Family Cemetery, Annie Caroline Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Sixty-Two. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the late 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Annie Caroline, an eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
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