This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917805496_boundary Content-ID: <0_917805496@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >From Barbara's list. Interesting Dalton stuff. --part0_917805496_boundary Content-ID: <0_917805496@inet_out.mail.email.msn.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <SPENCE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (rly-yc03.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.35]) by air-yc04.mail.aol.com (v56.24) with SMTP; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:29:27 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id LAA03588; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:29:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA07134; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:17:40 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:17:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001101be4d2d$ca9545c0$5ac3fed0@oemcomputer> From: "Barbara Beall" <bibeall@email.msn.com> Old-To: "Spence Farm" <spencefarm@junct.com> Old-Cc: <SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: SPENCE Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:24:26 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Resent-Message-ID: <"tFYe9C.A.ttB.iIIt2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1267 X-Loop: SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: SPENCE-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I don't recognize the names. However, I am going to assume that W. L. Spence's first name was "William". I have been looking for a certain "Will" Spence who lived either in Kansas or Oklahoma. In the movie "The Last Day" (the story of the demise of the Dalton Gang in Coffeyville, KS in October 1892), a "Will" Spence was an ex-gunfighter who settled in Coffeyville and who "saved the town" from the gang. He had a wife named Betty. Coffeyville is not all that distant from the area you are describing. My grandfather (William Franklin Spence, 1884-1973), lived in Coffeyville with his family in 1892. They had just moved there after a year in Muleshoe, Texas. Grandpa was in town with his father (Salathiel Monroe Spence) that morning and witnessed the entire gunfight. He talked about that incident quite a bit over the years. The narrator in the movie said that Will and Betty Spence spent the rest of their lives in Coffeyville. The possibility exists that the W. L. Spence buried in this graveyard is the Will Spence I am seeking. There must have been a Will Spence living in the Coffeyville area. I don't think the writers in Hollywood would have pulled that Spence name out of thin air!!! Barbara -----Original Message----- From: Spence Farm <spencefarm@junct.com> To: bibeall@email.msn.com <bibeall@email.msn.com> Cc: SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com <SPENCE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 6:49 PM Subject: SPENCE >Hi Barbara, will check out Spences in Ottawa County. There is a Spence >at Welch, Craig County, her husband was the Spence, now deceased. Fern >doesn't know too much about her husband's family, (I don't remember his >name). > >Several years ago, Betty White, White's Printing Co., in Vinita, told me >there are two stones on her farm. No graves that she knows of, just >stones. The right side of concrete was broken off one of them. They are >as follows: Do you know these people??? > >W. L. Spence, b. Oct 30, 1845, died Feb 10, 1901, age 55 yrs 3 mo. 11 >days > >Garry A. Spence, b. Mar 21 188-, died may 19 19--, age 20 yrs 1 mo 28--. > >As far as I know, they are still there, she lives in Ottawa County on a >farm. I'll ask when I see her again. Will send pages you want on >Talliferro-Tollivers next week. Keep in touch, Marilynn > > --part0_917805496_boundary--