History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 567.
[Bourbon County]    [Hutchinson Precinct]

WILLIAM L. SPEARS, farmer, P. O. Muir, K.C.R., among the brave and
adventurous spirits who, defying the privations of the wilderness and the
savage vengeance of the red men, left their homes and followed in the
wake of Boone and Kenton, to lay low the wilderness and make smooth the
road for the advancing tide of civilization into Kentucky, was John L.
Spears, of Virginia.  Arriving at the infant settlements, he offered his
services as a surveyor and school teacher, and they were eagerly accepted,
for few men with such attainments had as yet visited the dark and bloody
ground.  He entered land in the southern part of Fayette County, where he
settled, reared a family, and after attaining the green old age of
ninety-four years, peacefully died.  His son, Lee W. Spears, born in 1804,
took possession of the old homestead, married Miss Frances W. Tapp, and
raised a family of children, consisting of Charles L., George W., Luther,
Riley F., Sarah (Land), Mildred (Davis), Randa (Bronaugh), John L.,
William L. and Chris.  The latter was a private in Co. B, 8th Ky, Cavalry,
C.S.A. and died a prisoner in Camp Douglas.  William L. Spears was born
May 22, 1855; received a common school education, and at the age of
nineteen began life for himself.  He removed to Bourbon County in 1878,
where he is regarded as one of the most industrious and thrifty young
farmers in the county.  He was married Oct. 5, 1876, to Miss Lyda J.
Phelps, daughter of William C. Phelps, of Jessamine County.  They have two
Children: Claude Wilmore, born Oct. 2, 1877, and Randie Lou, born March
22, 1881.  Mr. Spears and wife are both members of the Christian Church.
In politics his affiliations are with the Democracy.

Spears Tapp Land Davis Bronaugh Phelps
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Fayette-KY Jessamine-KY VA

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