Brother to Herman Hood Spiller

I didn't know him until after Herman and I married and went to Memphis.

He married his first wife named (?) during the First World War. He was [a] cook (extra bad arches, flat feet, kept him on base).

His mother raised so much hell (his wife would now draw his allotment instead of she) until the girl just left.

After the war he worked as a taxi driver. Then he married Madge (a madam of the highest society, house in Memphis). They separated then remarried several times.

The Black Sheep

Brother to Herman Hood Spiller {assumed)

I liked best of all. To my way of thinking he was a Prince.

I don't know which relative helped raise him.

He was handsome, fun to be around. He loved to dress up and go dancing. I first knew him when I was going with Herman.

He and his wife Lucille Armstead, from Moss Bluff, just out of Lake Charles. LA, that was about 1922. They came to visit Morah in Ravenswood. At the time my sister Nettie Leatherman, that raised me, ran a rooming and boarding house in Melville and they would come stay for awhile.

Sister to Herman Hood Spiller

When her father died an Aunt took her in, sent her to school. Then when she was still in school her mother remarried to Dr. Plew a veterinarian of Memphis TN.

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Morah and Thelma lived in Ravenswood, out in the woods, on the railroad line.

This place had years ago been a saw mill town. She got the job of depot agent. Just a whistle stop and mail. She also ran the Post Office.

Brother to Herman Hood Spiller

Born in Stuttgart, Arkansas or Dewitt several months after his father's death.

I understand Edna went to stay with her sister Cecilia after her husbands death.

Elmo worked at first one thing then another. He married Dessie Murray of Melville, LA in 1926.

There were 3 children;

Evelyn Kay-1926

Morah Lou about 1928 or 1929.

Elmo Jr. known as Fuddy, about 1939.

Born March 12,1899. Pocahontas, AK.

When his father died, he was five, his grand parents (Grandpa and Grandma

Clausen) took him in. I think he lived with them for about three years. Worked in

Memphis.

Moved to Ravenswood, LA. Had a little country store. His sister ran the Post

Office and Depot.

Married Gladys Margie Duckworth of Melville, LA, September 13,1925.

The Spiller Family as far as I know it, Gladys Duckworth Spiller

Wife of Herman Hood Spiller

Son of Charles and Edna Spiller of Dewitt AK

Son of Charles Ernest Spiller of London, England

Charles' mother was buried in the Abby of London.

Four brothers of the Charles Spiller family of London, England migrated to the USA. They went first to Memphis, TN. I think two of them settled just outside of Memphis.

Charles went to Pocahontas, AK and printed a newspaper, the Pocahontas Herald. He was a very intelligent man. Business sense and fair play person. Had great plans for his family. He died of sunstroke. I heard it said it was a pity, if one had to go it had to be him.

He had a Mr. Bolton working with him (could have been a heart attack) tho he was very ill for about a week.

This is from the notebook labeled Spiller.

Saphire Fontneau, my Great Grand Mother, a full blooded Indian girl and my Great Grand Father Fontneau, a Frenchman no doubt with that name. I don’t think I ever heard his given name.

They were on their way to Louisiana walking down the trail that ran from the far North to Louisiana. Saphire died on the trail giving birth to a small baby girl. Her father named her Saphire after her mother.

Married to Norah Duckworth, sister to Gladys Margie Duckworth.

Sidney DeLoach was a barber, big fat and hateful, he would make snide remarks to me [and May]. We hated him. But now after all these years I see him better. He had a big head. Coming from the back wood and making good and did all he could to make his daughter (Oral) the most popular girl in Melville, LA. About 500 whites and 1,000 blacks.

Of course there was farmland all up and down the river (Atchafalya). Most trade in Melville came from these people.