Anabel Thurston

   FamilySearch ID: KCJ5-PVR. Find a Grave ID: 93962711.

  General Notes:

Anabel's mother died in the summer of 1869 when she was a year and a half old; her father remarried Mary Francis Gerry in 1870. Anabel and her older sisters were raised by her step-mother Mary. Anabel was close to her step-mother's sister, Sarah, who married James A Pepper of Mankato in 1875, when Anabel was 7 years of age.

She was living in Appleton, Wisconsin with her youngest son, William Spicer, Sr. when she died in 1942. She is buried in Woodland Hills Memorial Park in Mankato along side of her husband.

  Events

• Census: Federal, 1880, Rapidan, Blue Earth Co., MN. ¹⁴¹

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

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

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

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

• residence: 116 Drew Street, 10 May 1940, Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wisconsin. ¹²²

• Burial: Woodland Hills Memorial Park, 1942, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. Find A Grave Memorial# 93962711

• Obituary: Appleton Post-Crescent, page 14, 25 Feb 1942, Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wisconsin. Names surviving sons and one brother.
Funeral on the 27th in Mankato.
Says she had lived with son William for the past 2 1/2 years.

Anabel married Henry Spicer II, son of Henry Spicer and Kitty Branston, 1 Oct 1888 in Garden City, Blue Earth Co., MN.¹³⁰ (Henry Spicer II was born 23 Dec 1867 in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England ¹³¹, christened 16 Feb 1868 in Affpuddle, Dorset, England,^132,133 died 14 Aug 1939 in Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN ¹³⁴ and was buried in Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN.)