Merchant at Little Yadkin, NC, also postmaster from 1844-1849. This community is now Dalton NC. Their home was about two miles north of what is now King.
7:3357. April 29, 1817. Br. and Sr. Kluge went ten miles to the home of Br. Salomon and Sr. Maria Spönhauer, and Br. Kluge baptized in their house their little daughter, Maria Elisabeth, born on the 21st of this month.
8:3661 refers to his having an inn
A schoolhouse was built near his property in the 1820s, and is mentioned in several references in vol. 8.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BV-2KB : 12 April 2016), Solomon Spainhour, Stokes county, Stokes, North Carolina, United States; citing family 650, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Solomon by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Solomon:
Spainhour-6 and Spainhour-57 appear to represent the same person because: One line is from descendants, one from ancestors. Birth dates & sibilings line up with http://www.fmoran.com/spainhr.html (Spainhour family research)
Children of Solomon Spainhour and Maria Catherine (Mary) Conrad