Henry Spicer II

   FamilySearch ID: KHSY-4Z3. Find a Grave ID: 93962697.

  General Notes:

Born in England, he emigrated to America in the 1880's as a young man, supposedly after a falling out with his father over a choice of careers. Henry wanted to raise and race horses, against his father's wishes. Very little is known about his life, either in England or Mankato, Minnesota where he settled, married and raised his family.

Unable to find his original arrival records, but he evidently returned to England for his father's funeral as his name appears on the ship manifest for the SS New York which arrived in New York from Southampton on September 5, 1903 and arriving on September 12. (Father died August 29th and it is quite possible that he traveled to England before his father's death. Manifest lists his address in America as 213 Beach in Mankato.)

There are other entries for travel to or from England: Jan 5, 1899 Henry Spicer, Stableman, English, age 33, from Newmarket, US Resident. But no address in America given. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYT715_45-0180 ¹³⁵

  Events

• Census: Ewloe Wood township, Flintshire, 1871, Ewloe Wood, Flintshire, Wales. ⁶⁸ Residence is Ewloe Barn Farm.
Ewloe wood was described in an 1870 gazetteer as one of two townships in Harwarden parish, 1 3/4 mile NW of Harwarden. It is the location of Ewloe Castle. Henry is listed as a Farmer of 300 acres. The household includes two servants: a domestic servant and a Farm servant.

• Census, 1881, East Farm, Affpuddle, Dorset. ⁵⁶ Henry (42, farmer, born Tolpuddle)

• Occupation: clerk at Louis Janda Boots and Shoes, 1900, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹³⁶

• residence: 113 Beach St, 1905, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ³

• Occupation: clerk at Louis Janda, 1906, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹³⁷ Janda was a retail shoestore at 309 and 418 S. Front street in Mankato.

• residence: 313 Carroll, 1910, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ⁴

• Occupation: grocery clerk Draper and Pettersen, 1914, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ⁵ Grocers

• Occupation: County Treasurer, 1921, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹³⁸ Home 313 Carroll

• Occupation: County Treasurer, 1924, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹³⁹

• Occupation: Real Estate, 1929, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹⁴⁰ Working out of an offica 315 Fred W. Kruse Building.

• residence: 116 N. Drew, 1934, Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wisconsin. ¹²⁸ Tel. 5871

• Obituary: Mankato Free Press, S-28, 14 Aug 1939, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN.

• Burial: Woodland Hills Memorial Park, Aug 1939, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. Find A Grave Memorial# 93962697

Henry married Anabel Thurston, daughter of Irvin Harris Thurston and Lydia Ellen Dunham, 1 Oct 1888 in Garden City, Blue Earth Co., MN.¹³⁰ (Anabel Thurston was born 5 Jan 1868 in Garden City, Blue Earth Co., MN, died 25 Feb 1942 in Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wisconsin and was buried in Feb 1942 in Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN.)