1825 - 1897

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• Birth	18 Mar 1825	West Sparta, Livingston County, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Mar 1897	Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota   [1]
  Died	3 Mar 1897	Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota   [1]
  Person ID	I57515	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	08 Sep 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Asa E. SPICER, b. 26 May 1785, Springport, Cayuga County, New York
  Mother	Elisabeth (Betsy) TOBIAS, b. 6 Aug 1791, Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F24967	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Nancy M. CHAPMAN, b. 3 Jun 1832, Nunda, Livingston County, New York
  Married	23 Dec 1849	West Sparta, Livingston County, New York   [1]
  Children	> 1. Clarissa Jane SPICER, b. 18 Aug 1850, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan > 2. William Harrison SPICER, II, b. 8 Jul 1852, York State (Livingston County, New York, probably West Sparta) > 3. Sarah Arina SPICER, b. 30 Jun 1854, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan   4. Alfred SPICER, b. 1855, Plainfield, Kent County, Michigan > 5. Jesse Archie SPICER, b. 7 Aug 1857, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan > 6. Asa Holmes SPICER, III, b. 3 Aug 1859, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan   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   9. Nancy Elisabeth (Libby) SPICER, b. 16 Jul 1864, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
  Family ID	F24965	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Hulda M. PAGE, b. 24 Feb 1834, Canada
  Married	1866	Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota   [1]
  Family ID	F24966	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 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. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "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. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lhIBAEB/654.3 Message Board Post: 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? ==== SPICER Mailing List ==== http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.spicer Spicer Homepage: http://nlt.rootsweb.com/ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 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.

• Sources

  [S65] Spicer Family File.FTW. Date of Import: Jul 30, 2001