ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO 
            WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
              OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN  
              Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

 "DR. LUTHER SPELMAN, ( ), was born in Granville, Massachusetts, July 27,
 1779.  His father's name was John Spelman, who married Miss Damaris Rose, of
 Granville, Massachusetts.  Dr. Spelman studied medicine with Dr. Harvey, of
 Massachusetts.  He married, in 1804, Miss Anna Vail, of Morristown, New Jersey,
 a lady of Quaker descent.  The father was a cook for General Washington while
 his army encamped at  the above-named place during the War of the Revolution.
  Dr. and Mrs. Spelman emigrated to Deerfield, Portage County, in 1808, where
 they remained in the wilderness for one year, when they removed to Youngstown,
 Mahoning County, Ohio.  In 1812, Dr. Spelman was appointed a surgeon in one of
 the militia regiments of Ohio, but was not able to go to the frontier, and performed
 duty at home in making examinations for exemptions from the service.  He was an
 old schoolmate of Titus Hayes, of Wayne, and, on account of the friendship
 existing between the families of those named, he was induced to remove to
 Wayne, Ashtabula County, in 1823, where he commenced the practice of
 medicine.  In 1823, Dr. Spelman was elected one of the associate judges of
 Ashtabula County, being associated with Judges Moffit, Wood, and Burchard.  Dr.
 Spelman practiced medicine in Wayne and in the adjoining townships for the long
 period of forty years.   He died in Wayne, September 3, 1863, aged eighty-four
 years, and his wife died in the same town, March 12, 1870.  The children of Dr.
 Luther and Anna Spelman were Corintha, born in New Jersey, January 12, 1807,
 who married Benjamin F. Palmer, of Williamsfield; she died in Williamsfield,
 February 20, 1846.  Sarah, born in New Jersey, April 28, 1808, who married J.
 Anson Giddings, of Wayne.  Charles, born in Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio;
 died in Williamsfield, Ohio, January 6, 1875.  Sidney, died at the age of ten years,
 at Petersburg, Columbiana County, Ohio, where the family had resided for some
 time.  Mary, born at Youngstown, Ohio, in March 1814, married William J. Colby,
 of Cherry Valley, Ohio.  Harvey, born at Petersburg, Ohio, June 19, 1816, died at
 Rome, Ohio in 1877.  John and Henry, twin brothers, were born at Petersburg,
 Ohio, January 30, 1818.  John married Miss Fidelia Hart, a daughter of Captain
 Jerry Hart, of Wayne.  John Spelman died in Wayne in 1842, and his wife, Fidelia,
 died in Wayne, June 14, 1842.  Henry Spelman married Miss Abigail Loomis, of
 Williamsfield.  He died in Cherry Valley, Ohio, February 27, 1867.  Morris, born in
 Petersburg, Ohio, December 31, 1830, has been a school teacher in Wayne and
 Cherry Valley, and served for six years as a justice of the peace in Wayne.  July
 5,1871, he married Mrs. Rose Coulter of Crawford County, Pennsylvania.  Their
 only child, Samuel A. Morris, was born in Wayne, May 6, 1875.  Franklin, the
 youngest son of Dr. Luther and Anna Spelman, was born in Williamsfield, Ohio,
 October 22, 1824, died in Wayne, April 2, 1852.  Jane, the youngest daughter,
 born in Williamsfield, Ohio, February 18, 1828, married A.T. Woodworth, of
 Wayne, May 26, 1847."