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Spoor, William Barnabas

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 0, credited to Unknown Unit(s): 2nd MO CAV Service: 2nd MO CAV, or 2nd MO INF See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 08/10/1836, Clarenceville, Canada East Death: 07/29/1890 Burial: High Prairie Cemetery, Elmo, MO Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 117143508 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice High Prairie Cemetery, Elmo, MO Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

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William B. Spoor

William Barnabas Spoor, a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Fort Delaware, wrote a letter to his brother, Austin O. Spoor, of Alburg, a private in Company K, Eleventh Vermont Infantry. The letter, dated July 19, 1863, defended the South.
Austin O. Spoor, son of Orange Spoor and Fanny Friot, had an elder brother, William Barnabas, b. 8/10/1836, in Clarenceville, PQ (where Austin was also born). According to the Spoor Genealogy, William B. Spoor lived in Nodaway County, Missouri, where he died 7/29/1890. There was only one William Spoor in Confederate rosters, and he was a member of the 2nd Missiouri Cavalry, although the family genealogy says it was Co. E, 2nd Missouri Infantry.
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Source: Vermont Historical Society has a photocopy of the letter.
Marie A. Underwood, The Spoor Family in America..., (The New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, PA, 1901), pp. 86-87, 89

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