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Descendants of Jean Baptiste Gauthier

Generation No. 2

2. MARIE ROSE² GAUTHIER (JEAN BAPTISTE¹) was born March 27, 1867 in Canada, and died May 10, 1932 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She married WILLIAM SPOOR. He was born February 22, 1869 in Canada, and died January 18, 1930 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

More About MARIE ROSE GAUTHIER:
Burial: Sacred Heart Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts

Notes for WILLIAM SPOOR:
From Rosemary Spoor:

William Spoor, my grandfather and your great great grandfather, was a railroad man. He was a lookout on top of a freight train in West Farnham, Canada. When the train would go, big bullies would throw stones at it for coal.

Very bad winters. Show reached the second floor of their home.

William and his wife, Marie Rose, left Canada and lived for a while in Troy, NY. From New York, they moved to Fall River, Massachusetts and lived with her brother on Easton Avenue across from Lafayette park in the Flint section. Her brother, Frank Gauthier, had two sons. William and his wife both worked in the mills in Fall River. Later, they moved to New Bedford, MA and lived on Ashley Blvd. and Conell Streets. An accident, in a mill, caused William to go blind.

William was 6 feet tall and weighed 210 pounds. Marie Rose was about 5-foot-4 and 105 pounds. (She had what was called a milk leg, developed after their first child was born.)

William was a nice calm man but none to fool around with. He was a big man. He sparred with the champion boxer John L. Sullivan.

We have Manitoba blood in us on William Spoor's side of the family. One day, William invited his father's uncle for a visit from Canada. William and his wife were living on Acushnet Avenue and Cedar Grove Streets in New Bedford over a Chinese laundry.

His uncle couldn't sleep in bed. He put a teepee up in the backyard, causing quite a commotion among the neighbors.

William worked from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. He always went to bed early.

He and his wife loved going to the movie theater. When her mother, Rosalie, became ill and unable to care for herself, Marie Rose brought her from Canada to live with her in New Bedford. Her mother lived to be 104. She died in 1922. William died in 1930 at age 61. Marie Rose died in 1932 at age 65.

More About WILLIAM SPOOR:
Burial: Sacred Heart Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fact 1: Sparred with Champion Boxer John L. Sullivan
Fact 2: Sarnum P.Q. Cananda
Fact 3: Died of dropsy, injured in a mill
Fact 4: Became totally blind, loss of memory
Immigration: Bet. 1889 - 1895, Moved to Massachusetts, possibly by way of Troy, New York
Occupation: Abt. 1885, Worked on railroad in Farnum, Canada

Children of MARIE GAUTHIER and WILLIAM SPOOR are:

	i.	BLANCHE³ SPOOR, m. ROBERT LEWIS.
3.	ii.	FLORIDA SPOOR.
	iii.	HENRY SPOOR, b. May 1897, Massachusetts; m. ROSE.
	iv.	ARCHIBALD SPOOR, m. (1) AURA; m. (2) ADRIANNE.

More About ARCHIBALD SPOOR:
Fact 1: Nickname of "Archie"

4.	v.		DELIMA SPOOR, b. February 18, 1889, Canada; d. March 1989.
	vi.		MARY B. SPOOR, b. May 1900, Massachusetts.

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