 4th Addition, section 1    L.M. Spearman 30 May 1832 - 31 December 1911 Margaret Spearman 11 April 1835 - 26 April 1908 Dallas (TX) Morning News Wednesday, January 3, 1912 p. 7 Collinsville, Tex., Jan 2 -- L. M. Spearman, an old and respected citizen of Collinsville, Texas, died at Whitewright December 30, 1911. He was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1852 settling in Grayson County, where he lived a number of years. He was married in 1858. He went into the confederate Army and remained during the entire war and made a good record as a soldier. He went to Cooke County, Texas, where he lived until 1897, when he removed to Collinsville, Texas, where he had been ever since. He reared a family of eight children. The Whitewright Sun Friday, January 26, 1912 pg.1 The following appeared in the Collinsville Times, published at Collinsville, Texas, where our father made his home for many years past and where we will be pardoned for saying that he was known and loved by every citizen of this town. - - - Editor In the ordinary estimation of greatness we often look beyond true greatness to find in the pomp splendor and dazzling things of this world the objects of our admiration. It to do good and live a sacrificial life for others, of to be a Christian and follow the pathway of the Christians' faith, of to bear the toil and burdens of a rugged life, that others may live and share the comforts and pleasures of a brighter life. Of all these enter into the element of human greatness the pioneer settlers of this fair land of ours deserve a place in our memory to compare with the greatest of any time. L.M. Spearman, one of the pioneers of this country, has just passed away and his life and character has caused the writer to think perhaps that we do not value the labors of these old heroes as we, their beneficiaries of their toil and privation should. Miller Spearman came to Grayson county before the Indians had entirely relinquished their claims to this domain. He found the waving grass scarcely broken by the ploughman share, the curling smoke from the lowly cabins served as a guide post to the roaming travelers as they were seeking Western homes. He and his like broke out the sodded prairie and brought the virgin soil under the dominion of agriculture but just after a few years of toil and better days were coming the tocsin of war sounded over our entire south land and called the young ploughman from his furrow to the tented field of war there to defend his country from invading foes. Young Spearman left his wife and children to the care of kind neighbors and offered his life to his country's cause. The military parade and brilliant uniforms of today might lure the thoughtless young man into the army but in those days nothing but the supreme call of duty could have caused young Spearman to leave behind him his young wife and children and little farm for the dangers of Civil War. After years of devotion to the lost cause he returned to his wife and children in the cabin home upon the prairie there to begin his labors anew to rear and educate his family. For years he toiled amid the storms of winter and heat of summer that others might have the benefit of education and the comforts of a pleasant home. And as the years went on one by one he realized the crowning objects of his life, he felt satisfaction and pleasure because duty well done wiill lead the humblest to greatness and crown the lowliest with honor. He educated his children at a time when the means of education was not great. He acquired good property that always made him to be considered a well to do man. In early life he became a member of the Christian church and throughout all his long life his faith in the doctrines and teachings of that church grew stronger with the passing years. While he was considerate and kind to those that differed with him, he was firm in his own convictions of whatever he believed to be right. He was a brave Democrat and firmly believed that the great Nebraskan had done more to arouse the people against the arrogant rule of the moneyed aristocracy than any other man since the Civil War. But the time had come for this good man to die, his alloted time was gone. Old age with its infirmities had warned him of the approaching end of life. A few years ago his devoted wife, a very intelligent and lovely companion had gone to her eternal home. A loss from which the old man could not recover, then it was for him a life of loneliness, sadness and waiting; yet he had that degree of happiness that is naturally blended with a good life and there was a sunshine of a happy and lofty peace shown above the shadows of bereavement as permanent and fixed as the firmament of heaven. Besides he had the Christian's hope that enabled him to gently observe the lengthening shadows of the sinking sun of his life and suffer bodily and yet rejoice in the hope while his soul day by day got near the object for which he had so long waited and prayed. In the last few days of his life his body was so worn and weak the delusion ascended the throne of reason and his mind went back to the camping ground of the Confederate army and the stirring scenes of those dark days were passing in review through his mind when his soul was released and ascended to his Maker. He was buried beside his wife among the oaks and cedars of the Collinsville cemetery. May we long cherish his memory.
 W.B. Spearman 3 December 1855 - 7 October 1906 Collinsville Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
