FORWARDED: Please respond to Sharon at one to her addresses below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Speights Varnes" <SharonVarnes@catlover.com> To: <bparker@Clearsail.net>; <TXSABINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:56 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Speights in Hemphill! > Hi! > > Regret that I don't have any info on Tempe and John J. Speights. I do have > lots of info on the Hemphill, Sabine County - Palo Gaucho Creek - Speights > since my father (Rudolph Alton Speights) was born and raised there! As was > his father (Thomas "Tom" Green Speights b. February 15, 1885) and his > grandfather (Dr. John William Speights b. Oct. 29, 1826) whose father was > Johnathan M. H. "Johnsie" Speights b. June 20, 1828 in Lawrence Co., > Mississippi , d. December 02, 1912 buried Speights Cemetery, Sabine Co. > > Aunt Virgie (Virginia Louise Collier Speights, Mrs. Drayton Bennett > Speights) corresponded and gathered information on all lines of the Speights > family. I have tried to add to it and put it in the computer so that others > could share and enjoy her love of genealogy and family. > > Take care, > > Sharon Speights Varnes > 100 Nancy Place > Palatka, Florida, 32177 > Voice 904-328-5736 > Fax 904-325-9166 > E-mail Sharon@gbso.net > > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/v/a/r/Sharon-S-Varnes/index.html > http://www.speights.net > http://www.valueit.com/GradyandSharon.htm > "If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet around the house, > I'd put shoes on my cats." > > . > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bparker@Clearsail.net [mailto:bparker@Clearsail.net] > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:56 PM > To: TXSABINE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXSABINE-L] spights/speights > > > Posted on: Sabine Co. Tx Query Forum > Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Sabine?read=271 > > Surname: spights, speights, turner > ------------------------- > > I am looking specifically for information about Tempe and John J Spi(e)ghts, > parents of Rebecca Marinstia Spi(e)ghts (1960-1932), who married James > Turner in 1883 in Texas. James and Tempe also had two sons, Azamor (bca1857) > and Henry (bca1858), and the family was listed in Rapides Parish, LA, in > 1860. Tempe Spi(e)ghts lived until around 1920; John was last seen during > the Civil War, possible leaving to enlist, but maybe not. Grandpa remembers > that he went to school with some of the Spe(i)ghts children at Hemphill, > and that some were buried in the area; he said Granny Spe(i)ghts did not > want to talk about any of the Speights family. I would welcome information > on any of the Sabine county Speights or Spights families. >