John Cooper Spurr
John was born at the time of his parent's association with the Methodist Church and so was named for Rev. John Cooper, the first Methodist missionary at Annapolis, who arrived there in 1791. Indentured at 16 to Wm. Withers as a house joiner apprentice. After wife Harriet died of consumption three weeks after the birth of son John Church, John found it necessry to split up his family, mostly with relatives on the Parker side. There is evidence that John was a school teacher but later in life was called a trader and farmer. He was a member of the Nictaux Baptist Church.
John married Harriet Parker, daughter of Capt. (Militia) Nathaniel Parker and Diadama Morse, on 23 Feb 1828 by Rev. Thos. H. Chipman. (Harriet Parker was born on 11 Sep 1811 in Annapolis Townsip, NS and died on 23 Nov 1847 in Clements (now Nictaux South), NS.) The cause of her death was consumption.
John next married Louisa Jane McNeill, daughter of Archibald McNeill and Mary Hicks, on 4 Feb 1851 in Weymouth, NS. (Louisa Jane McNeill was born on 15 Sep 1810 in Long Island, Digby Co., NS and died in jun-Jul 1897 in Barton, Digby Co., NS.) |
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