THE SPEARS TREE (Note: The symbol (&) is to be read "who married.") Billie Spears was an early settler in Casey County. He was perhaps related to the wife (Mary Agnes Spears), of Christopher Riffe. His children were Thomas who married Sallie McWhorter; Friend who married Katie Taylor; James married Patsey Hogue; Jesse married Mary Lyons; John Waller never married; Delia married Spencer McDanile (parents of Miss Mattie and John); Katie never married; Elizabeth married James Walls; Rebecca married Nicholas Dye; Fannie married Jacob Walls (Jake Dorn); Sallie married George McAninch; Martha married Fount Coleman; Polly Emily never married and after the death of Elizabeth, Nancy married James Walls. Billie Spears had seventy-seven grandchildren. He had a brother in Pulaski County named Hesekiah (Ki), and two sisters, Patsey who married Arch Roy, and Sallie who married Alexander Dye. To James and Patsey Hogue were born Marion, Mack, Crit, Glance, John, Mallie who married a Randolph, and Ada who married a Brown.