Pedigree

[monaherrin]

Margaret Spurgeon (UNk if maiden or married name), b. c 1832-1840, TN d. aft 1900 MO?  Found in  Poss 1850 Census Cocke Co., TN in household of Perry Large; 1870, 1880 Censuses Cocke Co., TN;  Prob 1900 Census  Wayne Co., MO in household with son Thomas.  Names of sons from oral family history  confirmed by census material.
  Children:
1.    James Taylor Spurgeon, Sr.,   b. Mar 4 1855, TN (Cocke Co.?), d. Jun 29, 1905 Lawrence Co., AL 
m.  Mary Lee Odell,  July 25, 1872, Prob. Cocke Co., TN 

Children:

A.   Millie Spurgeon,  b. October 24, 1874 TN d. 1886 Jackson Co., AL
B.   William Spurgeon,  Sr.,  b. September 06, 1877 Jackson Co., AL, d. March 10, 1939 Colbert Co., AL m. Elsie Jane Rush
C.   Thomas Bradford Spurgeon, b. June 14, 1880 Jackson Co., AL,  d. January 31, 1940 Marshall Co., AL m. 1. Rebecca Jane Grizzle  2. Margaret Jeanette Gamble
D.   Adrew Wann Spurgeon,  b. June 19, 1886 Jackson Co., AL, d. July 29, 1967 AL m. Ethel Louise Berry
E.   Bertha L. Spurgeon, b. August 27, 1889 Jackson Co., AL m. Samuel Arther Barclay
F.   Charles Hadden Spurgeon, Sr., b. Apr 27, 1891, Jackson Co., AL, d. November 08, 1953 Marshall Co., AL m.  1. Annie Lucy Sherrell 2. Mattie Pearl Smith 3. Zeuleima Louise Carmon Smith Brooks
G.   James Taylor Spurgeon, Jr., b. Mar 28, 1896, Jackson Co., AL, c. January 21, 1982 Tuscumbia, Colbert Co., AL m. Ila Ann Harrison
H.   Margaret Katherine Spurgeon, b. January 08, 1899 Jackson Co., AL m. James Allen Barnes

2.   John Spurgeon, b. c 1858, TN
3.   Thomas S. (?) Spurgeon,  b. c 1863-Nov 1865, TN,  d. aft 1930, MO? m. Mary J. ?  c 1894 MO?
A.   Margaret Spurgeon, b. c Apr 1895 MO m. D. H. Barnes c 1916 MO
B.   Lucy Spurgeon, b. c Apr 1898 MO
C.   James H. Spurgeon, b. c 1906 MO
D.   William T. Spurgeon, b. c  1908 MO

4.    Miranda E. Spurgeon,  c 1869 TN,  d. bef  1870 Cocke Co., TN?
                                 

[monaherrin]

There is a very remote chance that a Miller was the father of James Taylor Spurgeon, but there is no proof of that except that my father once told me that James Taylor Spurgeon's mother was a Spurgeon before she married and that she married a Miller-that does not appear to be true according to censuses.  There is a marriage for a George W.Miller and a Margaret Spurgeon in Greene Co., TN in 1856 but that does not appear to be the same Margaret Spurgeon and she shows up in the censuses of 1870 and 1880 and maybe in 1900 as Margaret Spurgeon.

I don't know if Daddy made this up or if he heard something when he was a child and just didn't understand what he heard.  It is true that James Taylor Spurgeon's sister-in-law had children out of wedlock and this may be what he heard.   Even tho Mary Lee Odell Spurgeon lived until the 40s, I have not been able to find anyone who will admit that she ever said anything about her husband's family.  There is oral family history that James had two brothers named John and Thomas and that they went to Missouri and stayed.

Thank you

Mona Spurgeon Herrin