Thomas Spellman
Kentucky Post, Monday, 9 March 1903, page 2
Thomas Spellman, 84, old time rolling mill man, who died of paralysis last week at the home of his son-in-law, Felix J McCarthy, 1347 Chapel Street, Bellevue, laid the basis for a fortune.
Spellman was born in Ireland and came to New York with his parents when a child. In that city he married Miss Margaret Murray and they came to Cincinnati, traveling by water and ox-team, by way of Cleveland, before the railways reached Cincinnati. They settled in the East End and Spellman went to work in a rolling mill at Fulton as a "shearer."
Years later he worked for Mitchell & Tranter in Covington. He was known as one of the most expert workmen and often earned $10 and $12 a day during the war. In 1871 he moved to Bellevue Ky. where, with money he had saved, he built several homes as an investment.
Sixteen years ago his son, Michael, to whom he had taught the trade, died of typhoid feer. This so shooked Spellman that he never returned to the mills. He had been in feeble health for four years, because of successive strokes of paralysis.
His wife died in 1891 and his daughter died about two years ago.
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Thomas Spellman died 7 March 1903 in Bellevue; wife Margaret died 1 Feb 1891 in Bellevue; son Thomas died 25 Mar 1870 in Cincinnati; son Michael died 18 Aug 1887 in Bellevue; daughter Ella died 17 Sep 1900 in Bellevue.
All are buried at St Joseph New Cemetery in Cincinnati.