Ellen Ann Speer (Starnes)

1842 -

• Name	Ellen Ann Speer (Starnes)
  Born	1842	Battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	Booneville, Logan, Arkansas, USA
  Person ID	P4555	Woelfel Test
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Dennis A Speer,   b. 7 Jun 1818, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Texas, USA
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lucinda Moncreef (Speer),   b. 1823, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 12 Apr 1871, Booneville, Logan, Arkansas, USA  (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	15 Nov 1838	Fayette County, Tennessee, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F1128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ellen Ann Speer Starnes was the daughter of Lucinda Moncreef (Moncrief) and Dennis Speer. Her parents married in Fayette, Tennessee but migrated to Smith County, Texas. She and her family were enumerated there in the 1850 census. The family eventually moved to Arkansas where they are listed among the earliest settlers of Booneville, Logan County (then Scott County). Ties to Smith County remained, however. Ellen Ann married William A. Starnes June 26, 1859, in Smith Texas (Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas, The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891. Logan County, Arkansas). By 1870, Ellen (age 27)and her chidren, John W. (age 8), and Alfred Starnes (age 1) resided in the household of her parents in Logan County, Arkansas, without William (census records). July 1, 1875 she received an eighty acre land grant in Logan County signed by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Ellen is believed to be buried in Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery where her mother and other family members are laid to rest.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1269559636] Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).