Louis Marchand Speers
1810 - 1883 (73 years)1. Louis Marchand Speers was born 26 Jul 1810, Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Noah Speers and Nancy Virginia Frye); died 16 Sep 1883, Junction City, Perry, Ohio, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 36385
- Residence: 1850, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA
2. Noah Speers was born 27 Mar 1769, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Peter Henry Spears and Regina Froman); died 9 Jun 1832, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Name: Noah Spears
- Name: Noah Speer
- Reference Number: 13251
- Birth: 27 Mar 1769, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA
Notes:
Buried:
Gibsonton CemeteryNoah — Nancy Virginia Frye. Nancy (daughter of Abraham Frye and Agnes Ann Young) was born 17 Oct 1774, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA; died 12 May 1845; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]
3. Nancy Virginia Frye was born 17 Oct 1774, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA (daughter of Abraham Frye and Agnes Ann Young); died 12 May 1845; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 29697
Notes:
Buried:
Gibsonton CemeteryChildren:
- 1. Louis Marchand Speers was born 26 Jul 1810, Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA; died 16 Sep 1883, Junction City, Perry, Ohio, USA.
- Solomon Speers was born 22 Sep 1792, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1860, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA.
- Abraham Speers was born 17 Mar 1790; died 22 Feb 1832.
- Noah W Speers was born , Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 9 Jun 1832.
Generation: 3
4. Peter Henry Spears was born 1713, Arnsburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (son of Peter Abram Spears and Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen); died 25 Nov 1782, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Find-A-Grave: 47028134
- Name: Henry
- Reference Number: 13256
Notes:
After arriving in America, Peter settled in Augusta, Co., Virginia until 1751-52, then moved up to Frederick Co., Virginia. Henry and George F. Spears explored the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, possibly together, where George remained and established the "Spears" family of Rockingham County. Henry went to Maryland then later established the "Speers" family in Pennsylvania.
Henry married Regina Froman and settled on farm known as Gibstoton, on the Mon River, below Belle Vernon.
Henry Speers and his wife took up residence on the east bank of the Monogahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1764. He called his home "Summer House." He died circa 1782, supposedly from a kick to the head by a horse. His wife, Regina was taxed in 1783 for 250 acres of land, stock and nine slaves. Regina and sons would be found later in Washington County, Pennsylvania, at Speers Borough, a small community south of Donora on the Monogahela River. It is felt that the Speers family lived in the same general area as the "colony" where the early Crist family lived.
Henry was active in community affairs - occasionally busy with one project or another for the county. He was appointed a captain of the militia in August of 1757.
Abraham Frye and family located on the opposite side of the river. He owned land from Maple Creek on the outskirts of Charleroi, to Pigeon Creek in Monongahela, from the Mon River, to where Fallowfield township school now stands, except for the Grant and Wickerham Farms, near what is now Fisher Heights. They came here from their homes in a place 18 miles south of Winchester, Virginia.
The Speers and the Fryes were intimately associated in everything that pertained to each others comfort, and this fact, in these days of trial and danger, was no small affair. In going from place to place or in the field, these settlers were compelled for personal safety to carry firearms so as to meet the attacks of the Indians.
Buried:
Gibson CemeteryPeter married Regina Froman Abt 1744, Augusta, Virginia, USA. Regina (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen) was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]
5. Regina Froman was born 1725, Alsace, Germany (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen); died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Find-A-Grave: 47028188
- Name: Ragina Froman
- Reference Number: 5077
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Buried:
Gibson CemeteryChildren:
- Catherine Rebecca Spears was born 1761, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 4 Apr 1849.
- Christina Spears was born 17 Feb 1752, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 9 Nov 1841, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Elizabeth Spears was born 1746, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1773, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Henry Speers was born 8 Jul 1756, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 2 Jan 1840, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Jacob Spears was born 2 Jan 1754, Rockingham, Virginia, USA; died 28 Sep 1825, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
- Mary Spears was born Dec 1745, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1806, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; was buried , Guernsey, Ohio, USA.
- Nancy Spears was born 17 Mar 1759, Virginia, USA; died 25 Mar 1839, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
- 2. Noah Speers was born 27 Mar 1769, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 9 Jun 1832, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Sarah Spears was born 1748, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1814, Kentucky, USA.
- Solomon Spears was born 1757, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 28 May 1788, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA.
- Susan Spears was born 1750, Augusta, Virginia, USA.
- Rachel Spears was born 2 Apr 1750, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA; died 4 Nov 1820, Fayette, Fayette, Kentucky, USA.
6. Abraham Frye was born 1722, Frederick, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1807, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 36382
Abraham — Agnes Ann Young. Agnes was born 1735, Frederick, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1809, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]
7. Agnes Ann Young was born 1735, Frederick, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1809, Fallowfield, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 36383
Children:
- 3. Nancy Virginia Frye was born 17 Oct 1774, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA; died 12 May 1845; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
Generation: 4
8. Peter Abram Spears was born 12 Sep 1690, Brandenburg, Germany (son of Christian Spears); died 1772, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 13255
Peter married Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen Abt 1708, Germany. Margaret (daughter of Peter Henlopen) was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany; died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]
9. Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany (daughter of Peter Henlopen); died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5407
Children:
- George Fredrick Spears was born Abt 1731; died 1793, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA.
- Joseph Andrew Spears was born Abt 1721, Germany.
- Michael Christopher Spears was born 8 Jul 1709, Germany; died 1772, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA.
- 4. Peter Henry Spears was born 1713, Arnsburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died 25 Nov 1782, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
10. Peter Froman was born 1685, Germany; died Aft 1730, Maryland, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5075
- Birth: 1690, Germany
Notes:
Family tradition says that Peter was a teacher and Huguenot. In 1685,
after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, an edict issued by Henry
IV of France in 1598, granting religious freedom and political
equality to the Huguenots. This revocation was a sentence of civil
death on them all; it crushed more than half the commercial and
manufacturing industry of the kingdom. Life in France became
extremely perilous for the Huguenots and many were leaving the
country. During a meeting held to choose a safe haven for their
people, the look out came crying, "The enemy is upon us, save
yourselves. Family tradition says that Peter hastily went home, took
his ready cash, silverware and other valuables in a four-horse wagon
and so quickly left that he forgot his hat. A friend called to him,
"Peter Froman, where is your hat?". He replied, "It is better to have
a head without a hat than a hat without a head." He placed his
valuables in a ship, leaving his horses and wagon standing on the
street.
After escaping from France, Peter went to Germany where he married a
French girl and settled in the Heidelberg or the Strassburg, Alsace
area which was under German control at that time.
His daughter Regina was said to have been born in Alsace. Although
there are records of several Peter Froman/Vrooman in New York and New
Jersey, no satisfactory proof has been found to show that Peter
Froman came to America, but we know his grown children were with Jost
Hite in Pennsylvania by 1731. If they were in America earlier, they
probably followed, rather closely, the trail of Hite's group from
Kingston, Ulster Co., New York to the Perkiomen (Skippack),
Philadelphia Co., (now Montgomery) PA, to York, Lancaster Co., (now
York), PA, and finally to the Shenandoah Valley in Frederick Co., VA.Peter married Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen 1700. Elizabeth was born , Germany. [Group Sheet]
11. Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen was born , Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 4706
Children:
- Mary Froman was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA.
- John Paul Froman was born 1710; died May 1783, Lincoln, Nelson, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, USA.
- 5. Regina Froman was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Solomon Froman was born 1718, Germany.