Perry & Spencer families

PERRY, SPENCER

Posted By: Osceola volunteer
Date: 2/14/2004 at 04:29:42

Kathleen and Darlene Perry and Spencer families many times moved as a group. The three Perry brother's and their sister who were married to Wallace Spencer came in a wagon train from Wisconsin to what would later become Osceola County in 1871.

Jane Perry Spencer gave birth to the first white male child born in Osceola County in November of 1871. There is a diary written by John Perry's wife Miranda detailing the trip and life that first few months they were there. Sod houses were built, which leaked in the rain, firewood and what lumber they could afford had to be brought from Minnesota as there were no trees nearby to cut, sometimes hunger when they were out of supplies, problems homesteading property which had already been "claimed" by someone else and much to her surprise "finding the Fourth of July in a shanty".

She was amazed that there were actually women there in silk dresses. Life was not easy for our ancestors who were the founding members of what is now Osceola County.

Darlene Garrity wrote:

I can add a little to What Kathleen sent as we are third cousins (Perry and Spencer).

These are all men who ended up in Osceola County but served in the Civil War from other states.

PERRY, John Isaac, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery

PERRY, George Ellis, 41st Wisconsin Infantry

PERRY, Clark Albert, 40th Wisconsin Infantry

SPENCER, Wallace Alfred, 16th Wisconsin Infantry

SPENCER, Albert M., 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery

SPENCER, David James, 5th Wisconsin Infantry

BARNES, William Wingert, 12th Michigan Infantry

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source: Kathleen