1. Elmer Vane SLAYMAKER b. 25 Jul 1890; d. 2 Feb 1972.
2. Edward Charles SLAYMAKER b. 5 May 1892; d. 22 Feb 1951.
3. 1. George Henry SLAYMAKER b. 7 Jun 1894; d. Aft 1975.
4. Izetta Rinnie SLAYMAKER b. 8 Sep 1895, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; d. 1989.
5. Laurence Guy SLAYMAKER b. 18 Jun 1897; d. 9 Sep 1975, Basset, Nebraska; bur. 1975, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska.
6. Frances Shirley SLAYMAKER

1. 3. Bertha Diploma DAVIS b. 28 Mar 1870, Bear Valley, Chester Township, Wabasha, Minnesota; d. 22 Mar 1928, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; bur. 1928, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska.
2. Charles Henry DAVIS b. 11 May 1873, Redwood County, Minnesota; d. 27 Apr 1947, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; bur. 1947, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska.
3. Nettie Nina DAVIS b. 23 Apr 1875, , Wabasha County, Minnesota; d. 12 Feb 1977, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; bur. 1977, ,, California.
4. Lulu DAVIS b. 1877, Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota; d. Abt 1880, Minnesota; bur. Minnesota.
5. Floy Emerald DAVIS b. 5 Aug 1879, Minnesota; d. 15 Apr 1974, Upland, San Bernadino, California; bur. 1974, California.
6. Ina Olive DAVIS b. 11 Dec 1881, Wabasha County, Minnesota; d. 11 Mar 1921, Nebraska; bur. 1921, Nebraska.
7. Jesse Clarence DAVIS b. 30 Apr 1884, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska; d. 27 Dec 1977; bur. 1977.
8. Lewis Lionel DAVIS b. 20 Jul 1886, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; d. 23 Oct 1946; bur. 1946.
9. Clyde Leonard DAVIS b. 1 Jul 1888, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; d. 23 Dec 1959, at his home in Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; bur. 1959, Nebraska.
10. Ethyl Leota DAVIS b. 27 Jul 1891; d. 3 May 1993, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska; bur. 1993, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska.

In 1851 William Davis left Canada with his family, and followed his son James south to the United States of America. The first part of the journey was made by boat to Baltimore, Maryland. They traveled in a wagon pulled by oxen to Princeton Illinois where they stayed for about 4 years. In late 1854 or early 1855 William and his family joined a wagon train headed west. In June of 1855 they settled in Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota where William acquire land and built his family a home. It was here on this Minnesota farm that William raised his children until his death 9 years later.

Obituary of William Davis as taken from the Wabasha County history; HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY 1884

"Davis, William (deceased) was one of the pioneer settlers of Chester township, taking a quarter of section 33 as his claim, in June, 1855, and leaving it to his family at his death, May 20, 1864. The birth of William Davis and his wife, formerly Amelia H. Bishop, took place in Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, the former in August, 1796, and the latter February 4, 1799. They were married December 8, 1818, and shortly moved to New Brunswick and settled on a farm. In 1851 went to Princeton, Illinois, and four years later came here. Mrs. Davis is still living with her youngest son on the original claim. Mr. Davis affiliated with the republicans during his brief citizenship in the United States. The family is of Presbyterian training. Five of the twelve children are now living, as follows: James A., Atkinson, Nebraska; Amy A., Mrs. Alfred J. Miller, Zumbrota township; Robert H., noted below; Sarah J., wife of Samuel Augur, Atkinson; Miner, on old homestead."

William's son Robert's grandchildren Neil Robert Jones and his sister Margie put together some history of the Davis Family in 1975. Some of the information they provided through their writing has been added to, or was used to confirm information in this family tree. Copies of the papers were provided to me by by my second cousin Bruce Spicer, son of Robert and Betty Spicer

From the book about Wabasha Co. Minnesota
"HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884

In 1851 the family began it's long journey to America, first traveling by boat to Baltimore Maryland. From there they went to Princeton Illinois by boat, to Baltimore, then by wagon train and oxen they moved overland to Princeton, where they stayed for 2 years. In 1855, searching for a new home they again travelle by wagon train and oxen came by wagon train to Trout Brook, Wabasha, Minnesota. After resting they looked over the land searching for a place to build their home, finally settling in Bear Valley, Wabasha, Minnesota.

In June of 1855, the family homestead one fourth of section 33 in Chester Township. The Davis', true American pioneers, traveled from Princeton with the Jones family. Sometime after the death of her husband William in 1864, Amelia moved to Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska where she lived out the remainder of her life.



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1. Elijah DAVIS
2. Ruth DAVIS
3. Rachel DAVIS
4. William DAVIS
5. Linda DAVIS
6. Lucy DAVIS
7. James Anderson DAVIS b. 5 Feb 1820, Quacco New Brunswick, Nova Scotia; d. 5 Mar 1908, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska; bur. Mar 1908, Holt County, Nebraska.
8. Amy Ann DAVIS b. 13 Mar 1822, Horton Township, Nova Scotia; d. 19 Nov 1911, Zumbrota, Goodhue County, Minnesota; bur. 1911, Minnesota.
9. Robert H. DAVIS b. 2 Jan 1833, St. Martins Parish, New Brunswick, Canada; d. 24 Jul 1901, Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota; bur. Jul 1901, Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota.
10. Mary E. DAVIS b. Nov 1842, Quacco, New Brunswick, Canada; d. 12 Aug 1868, Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota; bur. Aug 1868, Mazeppa, Minnesota.
11. Sarah J. DAVIS b. 2 Feb 1844, Quacco, New Brunswick, Canada; d. 20 Jul 1887.
12. Agnes DAVIS b. 1846, Quacco, New Brunswick, Canada; d. May 1857, Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota; bur. Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota.
13. 6. Sylvanus Minor DAVIS b. 6 May 1847, Quacco, New Brunswick, Canada; d. 31 Mar 1939, Newport, Rock County, Nebraska; bur. Mar 1939, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska.

Marquis De Lafayette Smith b September 7, 1824 (son of Jesse and Mary Casselman Smith) traveled with Asa Holmes Spicer and family to Cortland, Kent Co., Mich. where they started a business in Shingle making. Lafayette stayed in Michigan. Asa left and went to Minnesota. The shingle making business didn’t work out.

1860 Courtland Kent County, Michigan Census p604 Courtland #504/448.

Marquis L Smith 35 M Shingle Maker N.Y

Catherine 33 F N.Y

Mary A. 13 F N.Y.

William H. 5 M OHIO

Jessee E 3 M MICH

Maella L 10/12 F MICH



Asa H Spicer 28 M Shingle Maker N.Y

Nancy 27 F N.Y

Clarissa J 9 F Michigan

William 7 M N.Y.

Sarah A 5 F N.Y

Jessee 3 M Michigan

Asa 7/12 M Michigan


-Source; Kathie Lipscomb-

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Asa's son William Harrison Spicer believed that his step mother Hulda Page Robbins poisoned Asa. It is apparent Hulda did not get along well with her step-children as they were sent to live on their own shortly after she and Asa married. What is interesting is despite the seemingly bad blood between Hulda and Asa's children their descendants got along just fine as seen by the many marriages between Spicer and Robbins descendants. Hulda's grandson Elton Sylvester Robbins had a daughter Gladys, and 3 sons John, Henry [Hank] & Leo. Hulda's grandson John Robbins married Wilma Spicer [whom I believe was the daughter of Joel Isaac Spicer & Zella Enid Spicer. Zella Spicer was the daughter of William Harrison Spicer [the one who accused Hulda of poisoning Asa.] Henry [Hank] Robbins married Edna Spicer and Leo Robbins married Aileen Spicer. Edna and Aileen were the daughters of John Jesse (Jack ) Spicer & Cecilia Demarre. John Jesse Spicer was the son of Asa Holmes Spicer III & Lillian Sheldon. Asa Holmes Spicer III was the son of Asa Holmes II Spicer and Nancy Chapman and he was the step son of Hulda Page Robbins Spicer.

Asa and Hulda were married 31 years. I don't know if the story of Hulda poisoning Asa is true or why, after so many years of marriage, William believed his father met his death at the hands of his wife Hulda. Perhaps William so resented his step-mother for putting he and his siblings out that he blamed her for Asa's death.

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"hi, how have you been? its been a while since I wrote to you. I put the family tree away for a while but I'm back at it now. I found a story in the Mazeppa Tribune telling about a story in the Pine Island Record newspaper, about a Mrs. Spicer trying to poison her husband mar 6 1897 its actually an apology to Mrs. Spicer placed in the tribune by the authors of the story. it says we have learned that the statement regarding Mrs. Spicer was untrue and we were grossly misinformed by what we thought was a reliable source...."

Excerpt from an e-mail sent to me by John Sander on December 27, 2003

Information on the various Spicer Robbins marriages was supplied by John Sander, 3rd great grandson of both Asa Spicer and Hulda Robbins.
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I am also a relative of Royal Jesse Chapman. His daughter Abigail Jane was a sister to Nancy, who married Asa Spicer.
As far as I know, there has never been any connection between R.J. Chapman with any other known Chapman's in New York.
As I was doing some census research, 1850, in West Sparta, Livingston Co., NY I discovered that the Jacob Chapman family is enumerated next to the Asa Spicer (Sr.) family. Has anyone tried to tie these two Chapman's together?

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Asa and Nancy married in 1849 during New York’s Graft War and migrated to Minnesota shortly after the Civil War Draft Riots. The years from 1840 through 1866 was a bloody and violent period in New York brought on by "the Panic of 1837." The panic started on May 10, 1837 in New York City with the failure of banks and record unemployment levels.

By 1840, with the influx of immigrants organized crime steadily grew in New York. It infiltrated and dominated all aspects of New York’s life, from the criminal justice system, to those involved in politics, and the social elite down to the working class. Most businesses and political forums had an undercurrent of criminality and corruption. Politicians often used money from gambling operations to get elected, and organized crime figures worked closely with labor racketeers. The Irish played the dominant role in organized crime in New York, Chicago and other cities. Those involved in organized crime controlled the city. Graft by city leaders was prevalent throughout New York. They defrauded the city through padded and fictitious charges and also profited extravagantly from tax favors. The negative effects of organized crime on New York continued for many decades.

In March 1863 the National Conscription Act was passed. The act made all single men aged twenty to forty-five and married men up to thirty-five subject to a draft lottery. One of the major reasons for the draft riot was the act allowed drafted men to avoid conscription (I.e. the draft) by supplying someone to take their place or by paying the government a $300.00 exemption fee. Needless to say, only the wealthy could afford to buy their way out of the draft. On Saturday, July 11, 1863 The National Conscription Act, which was to initially be enforced in New York City, exacerbated long-simmering class tensions in the city. On the evening of Sunday, July 12th, working men and women met in the city's streets and saloons and read the names drawn during the previous day's draft lottery. Not surprising the names the appeared on the draft list consisted almost entirely of the working class and poor.

On Monday morning, workers from the city's railroads, machine shops, shipyards, and iron foundries gathered together to protest the unfairness of the draft. The large crowd then began moving uptown, gathering workers from workshops and factories along the way. Their goal was to march to the
Provost Marshall's Office at Third Avenue and Forty Sixth Street, where more names of those who were to be drafted would be drawn that day. Carrying "No Draft" signs, they cut telegraph wires and gathered weapons along the way.

Over the course of the next three days bloody street battles raged across New York City's rich and poor neighborhoods. One aspect of this riot that is often not told is that the rioters, most Irish and German immigrants, focused some of their rage on the city's black citizens who’s own struggles for work came up against the influx of immigrants The African Americans were not the only victims, the rioters also attacked any person or any business that represented wealth, prosperity, or propensity to be a Republican (whom the rioters held responsible for the segregations of the working class and the wealthy.)

Before peace was finally restored with the arrival of federal troops (many directly from the battlefield at Gettysburg) on Thursday, July 16, New York City's draft riot would become the nation's single most violent civil disorder, with more lives lost than in any other instance of urban domestic violence in American history.

Family ties really do bind us together!

Nancy is a descendant of our Davis line through her 8th great grandfather Thomas Davis who is a brother of James Davis who is Arina Davis Spicer's 8th gr grandfather. Both Thomas and James Davis are our 12th great grandfathers. Nancy Chapman Spicer is also Arina Davis Spicer's mother-in-law.

Our Peter Spicer is also Nancy's ancestor, he is her 5th gr grandfather through Peter's son Edward. Peter is also Nancy's husband Asa Holmes Spicer 3rd gr grandfather. Nancy's line comes through Edward and Katherine (Stone) Spicer, Asa's line comes through Edward's brother Jabez and his wife Margaret (Parke) Spicer, making Peter our 10th gr grandfather through Edward and our 8th through Jabez.

Interestingly, Peter Spicer's sister-in-law, Abigail Busecot, is also 10th great grandmother! Her daughter Katherine Stone is Edward Spicer's wife, and of course they are Nancy's ancestors. Abigail's sister Mary Busecot is Peter's wife and is Asa Holmes Spicer's ancetors. Abigail and Mary's father Peter Busecot is our 9th and 11th gr grandfather,

Other Chapman - Spicer family connections are listed in Royal Jesse Chapman's notes

1. 7. Clarissa Jane SPICER b. 18 Aug 1850, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan; d. 13 Mar 1945, Newport, Rock County, Nebraska; bur. Mar 1945, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska.
2. William Harrison SPICER, II b. 8 Jul 1852, York State (Livingston County, New York, probably West Sparta); d. 20 Mar 1931, Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; bur. 23 Mar 1931, Finlayson, Pine County, Minnesota.
3. Sarah Arina SPICER b. 30 Jun 1854, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan; d. 26 Aug 1939, St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota; bur. 1939, Minnesota.
4. Alfred SPICER b. 1855, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan.
5. Jesse Archie SPICER b. 7 Aug 1857, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; d. 13 Jun 1927, Canistota, McCook County, South Dakota; bur. Jun 1927, South Dakota.
6. Asa Holmes SPICER, III b. 3 Aug 1859, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; d. 13 Feb 1902, Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota; bur. Feb 1902, Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota.
7. Jane M. SPICER b. 3 Jun 1861, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan.
8. John Henry SPICER b. 14 Feb 1862, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; d. 26 Jan 1914, Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota; bur. 28 Jan 1914, Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota.
9. Nancy Elisabeth (Libby) SPICER b. 16 Jul 1864, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan; d. 25 Mar 1894, Minnesota; bur. Mar 1894, Minnesota.