According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Lucretia’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Twenty-Seven. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Lucretia, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Lucretia, the daughter of Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15) and Waite, died when she was nineteen years.

Lucretia was only nineteen when she died but Audrey Mae did not leave the cause of death.

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Lucretia was one of the six of Hez and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer’s twelve children who are buried in the Spencer Family Cemetery. All six of their children in this cemetery died at young ages. In Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Hezekiah’s (gravestone No. 15)  and Waite’s (née Briggs) Spencer children’s gravestones are gravestone number 25, 26, 27,28,29 and 30.

Hezekiah is the third son of Patriot John Spencer (Gravestone No. 2) and Huldah (née Johnson) Spencer (Gravestone No. 1 in Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system).

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Briggs descendants, if you have any additional information on Lucretia Spencer who lived to be nineteen, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Mary’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Twenty-Eight. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Mary, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Mary, the daughter of Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15) and Waite, died in her twenty-third year.

Mary was a young woman when she died, but Audrey Mae did not record the cause of her death.

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Gravestones 25-30 are the children of Hez (gravestone No. 15) and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer. Hezekiah, the children’s father, is the third son of Patriot John Spencer (Gravestone No. 2) and Huldah (née Johnson) Spencer (Gravestone No. 1 in Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system). According to Audrey Mae, Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15)  and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer had twelve children and six of their children’s gravestones are gravestone number 25, 26, 27,28,29 and 30. The six of their twelve children who are buried in this Spencer family cemetery all died young. Mary died at age twenty-two. Audrey Mae typed the mini-biography of Huldah, Lydia, Lucretia, Mary, Sarah and Huldah, the seventh generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Sarah’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Twenty-Nine. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Sarah, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Sarah, the daughter of Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15) and Waite, died as a young woman.

Sarah died in her twenty-fourth year, but Audrey Mae did not record the cause of her death.

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Gravestones 25-30 are the children of Hez and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer. According to Audrey Mae, Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15)  and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer had twelve children. Six of their children’s gravestones are gravestone number 25, 26, 27,28,29 and 30. The six of their twelve children who are buried in this Spencer family cemetery all died young.

Audrey Mae typed the  mini-biography of Huldah, Lydia, Lucretia, Mary, Sarah and Huldah, the seventh generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Hezekiah (Gravestone No. 15 in Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system), the children’s father, is the third son of Patriot John Spencer (Gravestone No. 2) and Huldah (née Johnson) Spencer (Gravestone No. 1 in Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system).

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Briggs descendants, if you have any additional information on Sarah Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Huldah’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Huldah, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Huldah, the daughter of Hezekiah (gravestone No. 15) and Waite, died in her nineteenth year,

Huldah, obviously named after her paternal grandmother Huldah and her sister Huldah (gravestone No. 25) who died at age 2, died at age eighteen.

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Audrey Mae wrote that Huldah married a William Nye, Jr. but Huldah only lived two years after her marriage.  Audrey Mae left no other information about Huldah (née Spencer) Nye or her spouse, William Nye, Jr.

According to Audrey Mae’s work, gravestones 25-30 are the children of Hez and Waite (née Briggs) Spencer.  Audrey Mae typed the mini-biographies of Huldah, Lydia, Lucretia, Mary, Sarah and Huldah, the seventh generation Spencers in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, John Anthony’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Two. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of John Anthony Spencer, a seventh-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Audrey Mae connects the mini-biographies of John Anthony and Jamima (Maxim) Spencer with the attached line and word “married” to show that both husband and wife (gravestone numbers No.31 and No. 32) are buried in the Spencer Family Cemetery. See below:

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John Anthony born in 1813 is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer.  Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer.

Audrey Mae’s line and word “children” show that gravestone 33,34,35,36 and 37 are the gravestones of John Anthony and Jamima Maxim’s children, Martha, Ella, Alice, John and Walter.

John Anthony and Jamima’s female children died so young.  Also, how tragic to have their son, John, who was in the Civil War died at age 19. Did he die in battle or sickness as 500,000 other soldiers had?

(There were five John Spencers from this area of East Greenwich who fought in the Civil War.  Two were killed, two returned unscathed–if that were possible in battle–and one (Audrey Mae’s grandfather) had been a prisoner of war and paroled by Abraham Lincoln’s policy.)

Audrey Mae’s grandfather does not descend from Captain John and Phebe’s son John. Audrey Mae, Edith Anna and John Edward descend from Captain John’s brother, Richard Anthony (“Deacon”) and Roby’s Spencer’s son, Richard Anthony Spencer. Richard Anthony’s daughter, Anna Maria (pronounce Mar-eye-ah) is the grandmother of Edith Anna, Audrey Mae, and John Edward (“Ed”).

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Vaughn descendants, if you have any additional information on John Anthony Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Martha A Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Three. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Martha, a eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Martha born in 1837 is the child of John Anthony (gravestone No. 32) and Jamima Maxim (gravestone No. 31) Spencer.  John Anthony is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer.  Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer.

Martha only lived a few months.

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Three of John Anthony and Jamina Maxim’s daughters are buried here. Two died in infancy and one as a toddler.  Audrey Mae did not record the causes of their deaths but noted that their Spencer great-grandparents died at age 70 and age 89, their grandparents died at age 54 and 74 and their parents died at age 85 and 78. Apparently at that time in history, if a child did not die in infancy or childhood, they had a good chance of living to old age.

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Vaughn descendants, if you have any additional information on the infant Martha Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Ella W. Spencer’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Thirty-Four. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Ella W. Spencer, a eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Ella W. born in 1860 is the child of John Anthony (gravestone No. 32) and Jamima Maxim (gravestone No. 31) Spencer.  John Anthony is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer.  Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer.

Ella W. only lived a few months.

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John Anthony and Jamina Maxim three daughters, Martha, Ella and Alice are buried in the Spencer Family Cemetery. Ella died at six months.  Audrey Mae did not record the causes of their deaths but noted that their Spencer great grandparents died at age 70 and age 89, their grandparents died at age 54 and 74 and their parents died at age 85 and 78. Apparently at that time in history, if a child did not die in infancy or childhood, they had a good chance of living to old age. This goes against the thought that our early colonials all died around age 40.  The average age may have been 40, but that is just because the infancy and childhood deaths averaged with those adults who lived to old age skewed the statistics.

Ella’s siblings in the Spencer Family Cemetery include a brother who most likely died in the Civil War and one brother who actually lived to age fifty-three. One can only hope that John Anthony and Jamima had other children who grew up, married and lived to old age and were either buried in their spouse’s historical cemetery, another Spencer Family Cemetery or their mother’s historical family cemetery.  More research is needed.

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Vaughn descendants, if you have any additional information on the infant Ella W. Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”

According to Audrey Mae’s artistic cemetery map diagram and Audrey Mae’s gravestone numbering system, Alice’s gravestone is Gravestone Number Number Thirty-Five. Using her Smith-Corona typewriter in the 1980s, Audrey Mae typed the following mini-biography of Alice Spencer, an eighth-generation Spencer in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Alice  born in 1858 is the daughter of John Anthony (gravestone No. 32) and Jamima Maxim Spencer (gravestone No. 31). John Anthony is the son of Captain John (gravestone No. 4) and Phebe (née Vaughn) Spencer.  Captain John is the first son of Huldah (gravestone No. 1) and Patriot John (No. 2) Spencer.

Alice only lived to age one.

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John Anthony and Jamima Maxim three daughters, Martha, Ella and Alice are buried here in the Spencer Family Cemetery. They died in infancy and early childhood.  Audrey Mae did not record the causes of their deaths but noted that their Spencer great grandparents died at age 70 and age 89, their grandparents died at age 54 and 74 and their parents died at age 85 and 78. Apparently at that time in history, if a child did not die in infancy or childhood, they had a good chance of living to old age. This goes against the thought that our early colonials all died around age 40.  The average age may have been 40, but that is just because the infancy and childhood deaths averaged with those adults who lived to old age skewed the statistics.

Alice’s siblings in the Spencer Historical Family Cemetery:

“Spencer, Johnson, Goff and Vaughn descendants, if you have any additional information on the child, Alice Spencer, please add a comment to this web site and the web site editor will add this to the site. Thanks.”