Descendents
of
GODFREY
AUGUSTUS SPECK
Migration Pattern:
IA > NE > CO > CA
This
SPECK lineage concerns itself with folks descended from Godfrey Augustus
SPECK, who arrived in
If
you want additional information please contact me Gary SPECK
There
is a small group of cousins all working on this particular family line. Some of them also have related websites,
which will be listed below. If you are
related to this line of Specks and you are not currently a member of our group,
also please contact me.
This
online lineage outline concerns itself only with my direct line (noted
in RED).
Additional information on my line, including sources, is available if
you are an interested family. Links to
other family pages are noted THUS.
This
is a work in progress, and together we can make it grow! To paraphrase the old Nissan commercial
Genealogy
is a Journey
Enjoy the Ride.
Have fun on your SPECK adventure.
Our
first Specks, Godfrey Augustus SPECK and Sarah
TOWNSEND had 8 children. Listed
with the appropriate children are links to guide you to others researching the
same line, as well as additional information on those appropriate lines. General information on Godfrey Augustus
Specks line can also be found at Cousin Darlenes site. The Small Family Homepage.
*****
Susan(nah)
SPECK (No
researchers YET)
SAMUEL L SPECK (SEE the continuation on my list below.) The famed Abstract Expressionist painter, Jackson
POLLOCK also descended from the Samuel L SPECK
line. This is just one of many websites
devoted to this famous painter, who so far, happens to be the most famous
member of this SPECK clan.
Augustus
SPECK
Elizabeth
SPECK
Mary
(Mariah?) SPECK (No
researchers YET)
Anna
(Annie) SPECK (No researchers YET)
Sarah
SPECK (No
researchers YET)
*****
NOTE: No living person will be detailed
in this lineage outline. This is to protect the privacy of all concerned.
GENERATION 1
GODFREY
AUGUSTUS SPECK (parents unknown)
m: SARAH TOWNSEND, 1779, Baltimore, MD
i. Susan(nah) SPECK
·
b: Feb 12,
1781, Baltimore, MD
·
d:
·
m: William
PICKERING (?), Mar 13, 1799, Frederick Co., VA
ii. Frederick
SPECK
·
b: Apr 20,
1783
·
d: Missing
in action in War of 1812
·
m:
unknown, (probably not due to age and early death)
iii. SAMUEL L SPECK
·
b: Nov 23,
1785, Baltimore, MD
·
d: Dec 19,
1849, Bird's Run, Guernsey Co., OH
·
m: Jane LEACH (LEECH), May 3, 1811, Jefferson Co., OH
iv. Augustus SPECK
·
b: Dec 13, 1787,
·
d: Jun 12, 1870, West Chester, Tuscarawas
Co., OH
·
m: Sarah REED, Jul 7, 1809, 12
children
v. Elizabeth SPECK.
·
b: Dec 20, 1789 (1790?), VA?
·
d: May 19, 1837,
·
m: Henry CRAMER, Jan 30, 1812, 8
children
vi. Mary (Mariah?) SPECK
·
b: May 4, 1792
·
d: 1793
vii. Anna (Annie) SPECK
·
b: Dec 7, 1794
·
d: Oct 1866, Tuscarawas Co., OH
·
m: Benjamin CRAMER, Mar 6 (12?),
1816 (1817?), 9 children
viii. Sarah SPECK
·
b: Sep 1, 1796, VA
·
d: Feb 7, 1887,
·
m: Samuel DIX (DICKS), May 14 1814
(Mar 28, 1816?), 11 children
Notes for GODFREY AUGUSTUS SPECK:
...Godfrey Augustus
Speck, as was the custom of his country, learned a trade. Then by the custom of
his country he was compelled to travel for one year to gain information to
benefit him in his trade, such people were called traveling journeymen. This
was at the time of war between the United Colonies and King George III of
We can't prove that he
was recruited and sent here for the war (though he was here to marry Sarah
Townsend before the war was over). DSG Jan 09 1999 (e-mail
correspondence)
However, in my study of
the years before the war was declared, there were British regiments being sent
here for many years and especially after the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the
Boston Tea Party in 1773... DSG Jul 24 2000 (
...while passing
through
GENERATION 2
SAMUEL L
SPECK (Godfrey
Augustus 1 SPECK)
m: Jane LEACH (LEECH), 1809
(May 3, 1811), Jefferson Co., OH
i.
Sarah SPECK
·
b: 1812, Cross Creek, Jefferson
·
d: 1893
·
m: never married
ii. ARCHIBALD SPECK
·
b: May 6,
1815, Coshocton Co., OH/Cross Creek, Jefferson Co., OH
·
d: Jul 30,
1898, Tingley, Ringgold Co., IA
·
m: Aug 24,
1837, Elizabeth
"Eliza" Jane BOYD
iii. David SPECK
·
b: Aug 24, 1821, Cross Creek, Jefferson
Co., OH
·
d: 1875
·
m: #1 --- Julianne (Julia Ann)
CRIDER, 6 children
·
m: #2 (after 1860) Theodora REED, 4
children
iv. James Edward SPECK
·
b: 1823 Cross Creek, Jefferson Co., OH
·
d: 1898
·
res: Oxford Twp, Tuscarawas Co., OH in 1850
·
m: Rachel Sarah SEVERNS
Notes for SAMUEL L. SPECK:
He died with a cancer
on his face. . [The Genealogy of
the Speck and Benjamin Reed Families from 1754 to 1900, By Isaac G. SPECK]
GENERATION 3
ARCHIBALD SPECK (Samuel L 2, Godfrey Augustus 1 SPECK)
m: Elizabeth Eliza Jane BOYD, Aug 24, 1837,
i.
Samuel Fleming SPECK
·
b: Jul 31, 1838 Freeport, Harrison Co., OH
·
d: Jul 29, 1863 (Possible casualty of
Civil War)
ii. DAVID ROSS SPECK
·
b: Apr 23,
1840 OH
·
d: Aug 8,
1919 Loveland, Larimer Co., CO
·
m: Martha Susan PATTISON Nov 2, 1864, Warren Co.,
IL
iii. Mary Ella SPECK
·
b: Jul 22, 1842 OH
·
d: Jul 7, 1860 Jefferson Co., IA
iv. James Renwick SPECK
·
b: Sep 15, 1844 Coshocton Co., OH
·
d: Jun 16, 1919
·
m: #1 Sophronia
Frona I. KIRKPATRICK Mar 28, 1878
o
d: Sep 6, 1880
·
#2 Beatrice WILKINS Feb 22, 1883
o
d: Apr 22, 1884
·
#3??? Mary FRASER/FRAZIER >1884
v. Cordelia (Cordilla) Jane Jennie SPECK
·
b: Sep 14, 1848 Coshocton Co., OH/Lee Co.,
IA
·
d: Jul 17, 1941 Tingley,
Ringgold Co., IA
·
m: John Robinson McCLURE
Oct 7, 1873
·
NOTE:
Grandparents of famed painter Jackson POLLOCK
vi. John Flovel SPECK
·
b: Jan 11, 1851 Fairfield, Jefferson Co.,
IA
·
d: Feb 21, 1851 Fairfield, Jefferson Co.,
IA
vii. Elisabeth A SPECK
·
b: Jan 29, 1853 Jefferson Co., IA
·
d: Nov 27, 1860 Jefferson Co., IA
viii. William Augustus SPECK
·
b: May 28, 1855, prob Jefferson Co.,
IA
·
d: Apr 22, 1922, Ames, Story Co., IA
·
buried: Ames Cemetery, Ames, Story Co., IA
·
m: Laura Edna NICHOLSON, Mar 24,
1880, Four Corners, Jefferson Co., IA, 9 children
ix. infant son SPECK
·
b: May 5, 1857 Jefferson Co., IA
·
d: May 9, 1857 Jefferson Co., IA
x. Flora Estella Stella SPECK
·
b: Dec 10, 1858, Jefferson Co., IA
·
d: May 31, 1922 Tingley,
Ringgold Co., IA
·
bur: Tingley Cemetery,
Ringgold Co., IA
·
m: Benjamin LORIMOR Oct 24, 1895,
Ringgold Co., IA
Notes for ARCHIBALD SPECK:
GENERATION 4
DAVID ROSS
SPECK (Archibald 3, Samuel L 2, Godfrey Augustus 1
SPECK)
1840 - ? OH
>c1848 Coshocton Co., OH
<c1850 Lee Co., IA
<c1851->c1860 Fairfield, Cedar Twp, Jefferson Co., IA
>c1860
1898 Tingley,
Ringgold Co., IA
1898-1901 Overton, Dawson Co., NE
1901-1919 Loveland, Larimer Co., CO
m: Martha Susan PATTISON, Nov 2, 1864, Warren Co. IL
i. Mary Luella SPECK
·
b: Oct 14,
1865
·
d:
·
m: Albert
N. LAUGHREY, Mar 19, 1884, Ringgold Co., IA
ii. CHARLES BOYD SPECK
·
b: Mar 1,
1864/1867, Monmouth IL
·
d: Oct 12,
1927, San Bernardino Co., CA
·
m: Oct 29,
1890, Nellie May BEATTY,
Ringgold Co., IA
iii. James Archibald SPECK
·
b: Jul 22, 1870, OH
·
d: unknown
·
m: Cora M Foster, Apr 6, 1897
iv. Martha Eliza Lydia Lida
SPECK
·
b: Jul 14, 1876, OH
·
d: 1961, Loveland, Larimer Co., CO
·
buried: Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland,
Larimer Co., CO
·
m: Taylor W. PARIS, Mar 28, 1894,
Ringgold Co., IA
Notes for DAVID ROSS SPECK:
GENERATION 5
CHARLES
BOYD SPECK (David Ross 4, Archibald 3, Samuel L 2,
Godfrey Augustus 1 SPECK)
1864- unk Monmouth, IL
unk 1898 Tingley, Ringgold Co., IA
1898-1901
Overton,
Dawson Co., NE
1901-1907
Loveland, Larimer
Co., CO
1907-1927 Upland, San
Bernardino, Co., CA
m: Nellie May
BEATTY,
Oct 29, 1890, Ringgold Co., IA
i. ALVA RAY
Alvin SPECK
·
b: Sep 1,
1891, Tingley, Ringgold Co., IA
·
d: Sep 20,
1981, Santa Ana, Orange Co., CA
·
m: Elizabeth May PARSONS,
Mar 24, 1913,
ii. Eva SPECK
·
b: Sep 9, 1893, probably Tingley, Ringgold Co., IA
·
d: Jun 20, 1973, Santa Ana, Orange Co., CA
·
m: Earl FROMM, 3 children
iii. Bertha I SPECK
·
b: Sep 7, 1895
·
d: Dec 14, 1962, Los Angeles Co., CA
·
m: Jess SAWYER, 2 children
iv. Mabel M SPECK
·
b: Nov 5, 1897, Tingley,
Ringgold Co., IA
·
d: May 3, 1990, CA
·
m: Robert GOODWIN (no children)
v. Ralph SPECK
·
b: June 14, 1905, Loveland, Larimer Co.,
CO
·
d: Bremerton WA
·
m: unknown, 1 child
vi. Hazel SPECK
·
b: Feb 14, 1907, Loveland, Larimer Co., CO
·
d: Apr 1992, Hemet, Riverside Co., CA
·
m: Lloyd TITTSWORTH (no children)
viii. Harold SPECK
·
b: Feb 4, 1910, Upland, San Bernardino Co.,
CA
·
d: Apr 28, 1971, Alhambra, Los Angeles Co.,
CA
·
m: unknown, 3 ? children
Notes for CHARLES BOYD SPECK:
Charles
is said to have owned the first automobile in Loveland, CO.
GENERATION 6
ALVA "Alvin" RAY SPECK (Charles Boyd 5, David Ross 4, Archibald 3,
Samuel L 2, Godfrey Augustus 1 SPECK)
1891-1898 Tingley, Ringgold Co., IA
1898-1901 Overton,
Dawson Co., NE
1901-1907 Loveland,
Larimer Co., CO
1907- ?? Upland,
San Bernardino Co., CA
c1913-?? Santa
Ana, Orange Co., CA
c1916-?? Phoenix/Mesa
AZ
c1919-?? Long
Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA
c1922-1925 Oceanside,
San Diego Co.
c1925-1981 Santa
Ana, Orange Co., CA
m: Elizabeth "Bessie" May PARSONS, Mar 24, 1913, Santa
Ana, Orange Co., CA
·
residence:
1894-c1897 Tipton, Tulare Co., CA
c1897-early 1900s Visalia,
Tulare Co., CA
early
1900s Rochester, San
Bernardino Co., CA
c1913->
1983 same as Alvin SPECK
(above)
·
children:
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