Earnest Lightfoot Spencer 1 2 3 4
- Born: 28 March 1874, Logansport, IN 1 4
- Marriage (1): Helen Jane Spencer on 19 September 1900 1
- Died: 8 September 1968, Elmira, NY at age 94 1 5
- Buried: After 8 September 1968, Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, Chemung, NY 1 5
 General Notes:
from Marjorie Tracy:
There is a strange coincidence in the names of Inger Eliza Lightfoot's son, "Earnest Lightfoot Spencer", and a son of her brother, Edward Levi Lightfoot, whose name was "Ernest Spencer Lightfoot". Now, according to the book "The Sloopers", Edward Levi Lightfoot married Minnie Belle Burget in 1877, and his son, Ernest Spencer Lightfoot, would have been born well down the line, as he was the 8th of 12 children. So, there is a good possibility that Edward either named his son directly after Earnest Spencer, or the Ernest might be from someone who both Emma and Edward appreciated and named their sons for; plus possibly giving his son the last name his sister now had.
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Noted events in his life were:
• He worked as a Railroad Brakeman on the Erie. 1
• He has alternate birth date of 28 March 1878 and a birth location of Logansport, IN.
This date from FindAGrave memorial page.
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• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Elmira, NY on 11 June 1880. 4
1880 US Census
Page 464B, District 80, Family 437, Roll 817
Elmira, Chemung County, New York
1212 Hall(?) Street
Earnest Spencer..Son..6..IN
(Living with parents and paternal grandmother.)
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• He was buried after 8 September 1968 in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, NY.
Find a Grave Memorial 99834274
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Earnest married Helen Jane Spencer, daughter of Sylvester A. Spencer and Kate M. Long, on 19 September 1900.1 (Helen Jane Spencer was born on 20 December 1876 in Rockville Center, NY 1 and died on 4 September 1916 in Elmira, NY 1.)
Marriage Notes:
Earnest and Helen turned out to be second cousins but they didn't know it at the time.
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