Spackman Heirlooms

We recently visited Grandma Spackman and asked to take some pictures of family heirlooms.  Here are a few treasures to look for next time you visit.

This glass chicken belonged to Elva Morgan Rindlisbacher (Grandma’s mother).  She had picked it out for the children and placed some Easter eggs in it to give to them on Easter.  The children found it and decided that it would be a perfect gift for their mother, and so it was hers instead.

This was Elva Rindlisbacher’s butter churner.

This is Grandmother Morgan’s (Elizabeth Bawden Morgan’s) bread mixing bowl, with an enamel bowl that Grandma Spackman put inside.

This is the sewing machine that Grandma Spackman learned to sew on.  It does a straight stitch, not a back stitch or anything like that.  It belonged to Elva Rindlisbacher.

The high chair that the Spackman children ate on, including the metal tray that Grandma recently found.

...and a silver spoon she used to feed them.  She recently found this spoon in the dirt behind the old farm, evidence left behind by would-be archeologists. 

Here is Grandma's glass case, full of little treasures picked up during the years, especially showcasing Grandma's bell collection.

Bell detail...

Little humorous play-on-words objects like this can be found throughout the house.

Here are a couple of items to remember Grandpa by.

Charles Spackman- relative?

I stumbled across this page about a certain Charles Spackman, born about 1748, who could easily be a relative.  He lived near our Spackman relatives, and this history mentions that he had a relative named Henry Spackman.  Temple work has been done for himself and his wife, but he is not linked to anybody in the LDS family search website.  I am curious to look into this line in the future.  Here is the page that I found.

http://www.coalcanal.org/history/Shareholders/Spackman.htm

Charles Spackman, left, and Thomas Barker, right.

Henry Spackman

Henry Spackman was born 13 October 1822 in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, son of Henry Spackman and Sarah Newman. He was christened there on 30 March 1823. Henry was the fifth of ten children born to this family. There were two sets of twins. His father was a shoemaker and his mother died when he was just ten years old. On 21 June 1845, Henry married Ann Bond, the stepdaughter of John Hibbard. Henry was a peddler in England and sold china, silverware, pots and pans for a living. He worked as both a hawker and a laborer. In addition to their nine children, Henry and Ann also raised their niece, Maria. Henry's sister, Jane, unwed, passed away shortly after Maria's birth.

Henry and Ann were converted to the Mormon faith in 1850. Twenty years later, they began the process of emigrating to Utah. Their son, Henry, was the first to come. He arrived in October of 1871 and worked to earn passage for his father and his brother, Brigham. They came in June of 1873 aboard the S.S. Nevada and all three of them worked to bring Ann and the girls in the fall of that year. Two married sons, Edwin and Elijah, came later with their families. A married daughter, Mary Jane Chandler, remained in England. Henry and Ann settled at Millville, Utah because there was a church farm there that provided employment. They also helped at the local store.

Henry like to preach and was known as an excellent gardener. He lived to be seventy-eight years old. He died 13 December 1900 just weeks after losing Ann, his wife of fifty-five years. They were buried together in the Millville Cemetery.