Mrs. Abbie J. Spicer

SPICER, GILBERT, CASAD

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/26/2016 at 14:51:43

11 December 1924 - The Tipton Advertiser

A note from E. W. Spicer, of Kansas City, tells of the death in Chicago on Dec. 2nd, of his mother, Mrs. Abbie J. Spicer, at the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Spicer was one of the early pioneer resident of this community coming here from New York in 1850, at the age of ten years with her father and mother, Aaron P. Gilbert and Abbie Gilbert.

Mrs. Spicer was married in 1856 to Wells Spicer, a prominent attorney of Tipton in early days. He was the war time editor of the Advertiser, always active in community affairs and largely instrumental in bringing the branch line of the Northwestern from Stanwood to Tipton. A sister, Ida Gilbert, became the wife of J. W. Casad, who for many years was a leader in business and banking circles in the city.

Mrs. Spicer's body was cremated and the ashes, enclosed in a bronze urn, are deposited in a private lot in Graceland cemetery, Chicago.