From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:23 PM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] OBIT: Mrs. Spear, 1898, Barren Co. Submitted by Sandi Gorin NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. "Mrs. Spear, wife of ____ Spear, who lives on ___ Watkins farm near Goo[night?], got up last Saturday and got breakfast, feeling as well as she ever did in her life. By eleven o'clock she was a corpse. The remains were interred at New Salem church Sunday. Mrs. Spear was a daughter of Mr. Samuel Rennick, of the New Salem country, and leaves a husband and four children to mour her loss." Not found at New Salem cemetery or elsewhere. Glasgow (KY) Times, 5 May 1898. ______________________________