Garrett Bird Spear
b. 17 October 1847, d. 12 December 1941
- Father: Malachi Moore Spear b. 20 June 1809, d. 28 August 1861
- Mother: Elizabeth Candler Woodley b. 6 October 1812, d. 27 September 1866
- Garrett Bird Spear was born on 17 October 1847 in Alabama.
- Malachi Moore Spear and Elizabeth Candler Woodley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Walker County, Texas, living next to Elizabeth's brother Jackson Woodley. Probably because Martha was married between the date of record and the actual date of enumeration, she also appears in Montgomery County in the household of her husband.. Other members of the household included Garrett Bird Spear, Martha Eliza Spear, Elizabeth Ann Spear, Thomas Jackson Spear, Margaret Frances Spear, Louisa Jane Spear and Christopher Malachi Spear.
- At the death of J. M. McGilvary's wife Eleanor, he brought his sister Mary to Texas to help raise his eight children. When she married Abram Helm in 1854 and moved to Navarro County, she took baby Eleanor to raise. Following Abram's death in 1860, John Martin and his remaining seven children went to Navarro County to live with her.
- Malachi Moore Spear and Elizabeth Candler Woodley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Garrett Bird Spear, Thomas Jackson Spear, Louisa Jane Spear, Christopher Malachi Spear, James Montgomery Spear, Woodley Clark Spear and Franklin Scott Spear. Also in the household was female M. J. Moore, age 14, born in Tennessee.
- Garrett Bird Spear died on 12 December 1941 at age 94.
- Last Edited: 1 Dec 2008