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Dr Andrew Jackson Speer

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Dr Andrew Jackson Speer

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24 Jan 1918 (aged 84)
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Lowndesville, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Andrew Jackson Speer was the second youngest of 12 children of William and Polly Speer. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1858, the same year he married "Lola" Verdel. He later served in the Confederate Army as an Asst. Surgeon with the 3rd NC Battalion Light Artillery, also known as "Moore's Battalion". He saw action at Fredericksburg and Richmond, VA, and was paroled on May 1, 1865, after the surrender of Gen. Johnston at Durham, NC.

He returned to private practice, and served the community in this capacity until 1910. He also was active in politics, serving before the war as Inferior Court Judge in Calhoun County, GA, and later in the SC General Assembly as a representative from Abbeville County from 1897 to 1898. He was also a Mason, as is indicated by the Masonic symbol on his grave marker.

He and his wife, Lola, were the parents of 7 children: daughters Johnnie Verdel Speer, Lola Jackson Speer and Sophia Ethel Speer Sigmon, sons William Mark Speer, Richard Williamson Speer, Foster Pierce Speer, Governor Wade Speer, and Gordon Verdel Speer, as well as two children that died in infancy. Lola passed away in 1895, and in 1901, he was married for a second time to Frances Hines "Fanny" Hoyt, and with her he had 2 more children, Francine and Andrew Jackson Speer, Jr.

Dr. Speer passed away in early 1918 - a victim of the worldwide Spanish flu ("La Grippe") pandemic.
Andrew Jackson Speer was the second youngest of 12 children of William and Polly Speer. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1858, the same year he married "Lola" Verdel. He later served in the Confederate Army as an Asst. Surgeon with the 3rd NC Battalion Light Artillery, also known as "Moore's Battalion". He saw action at Fredericksburg and Richmond, VA, and was paroled on May 1, 1865, after the surrender of Gen. Johnston at Durham, NC.

He returned to private practice, and served the community in this capacity until 1910. He also was active in politics, serving before the war as Inferior Court Judge in Calhoun County, GA, and later in the SC General Assembly as a representative from Abbeville County from 1897 to 1898. He was also a Mason, as is indicated by the Masonic symbol on his grave marker.

He and his wife, Lola, were the parents of 7 children: daughters Johnnie Verdel Speer, Lola Jackson Speer and Sophia Ethel Speer Sigmon, sons William Mark Speer, Richard Williamson Speer, Foster Pierce Speer, Governor Wade Speer, and Gordon Verdel Speer, as well as two children that died in infancy. Lola passed away in 1895, and in 1901, he was married for a second time to Frances Hines "Fanny" Hoyt, and with her he had 2 more children, Francine and Andrew Jackson Speer, Jr.

Dr. Speer passed away in early 1918 - a victim of the worldwide Spanish flu ("La Grippe") pandemic.

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ANDREW JACKSON SPEER 1833-1918 A christian man. A physician beloved.

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