Anna Rebecca (Washburn) Spafford (1868 - 1956)

Born 26 Jan 1868 in Chapman, Merrick County, Nebraska

Ancestors

Wife of Frank Delbert Spafford — married 23 Jul 1891 in Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming

Descendants

Died 29 May 1956 at age 88 in San Diego, San Diego County, California

Problems/Questions Profile managers: John Clement [send private message] and Michelle Brown [send private message]

Biography

Name: Anna Rebecca Washburn.

Born 26 JAN 1868. Chapman, Merrick County, Nebraska. ^[1]

Marriage
Husband Frank Delbert Spafford.
Wife Anna Rebecca Washburn.
Marriage
23 JUL 1891. Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming. ^[2]

Died 29 MAY 1956. San Diego, San Diego County, California. ^[3]

California Voter 1926
Residence: 3620 Herman, San Diego County, California.
Republican, housewife. ^[4]

FindAGraveMemorial 118425734. ^[5]

Find A Grave: Memorial #118425734

In The Washburn Family In America, volume one, second edition of 1997, the author identifies this person as A2E3 F1A1C2. ^[6]

Poem: Contained in Anna Washburn Spafford's scrapbook, this item probably was written circa 1917 by a boarder at the house:
Out to Laramie, Wyoming.
Came a maid both bright and gay.
From Nebraska's sun-baked prairies,.
Came our Anna one glad day.
Went to school this little lady.
For a year or two,.
Graduated from our high school,.
Honors not a few.
Then our little Anna Washburn,.
Not a little bit afraid.
Went back to Nebraska.
To learn the printers' trade.
There she met a clever dandy,.
Whose eyes were brown not green.
He idolized our Anna.
She at last became his queen.
Then the time passed swiftly by.
And there came a little son,.
Who reigned supremely over all.
And had a heap of fun.
Then there came a little daughter,.
Mary Orlena her name.
She was more than two years younger,.
But she was mistress just the same.
Her kindergarten was at home.
And she was sure some singer.
But when she went to public school,.
She proved to be a dinger.
Her second grade she quickly made.
In just one short half day.
So the third grade she went at once.
And there a year did stay.
In public speaking she did shine.
Although a trifle shy,.
Her masterpiece, we must admit.
Was on a pumpkin pie.
Her sweetheart days arrived so soon,.
That she was called Miss Fast.
But we must now relate to you.
Those love relations did not last.
In Seventh grade she was encored.
In eighth, she got another.
But when she reached her high school,.
She progressed just like her mother.
When graduation days had come.
She was surely awful glad.
She was first who graduated.
Of the children of a grad.
Her college days at Wyo. U.
Began in nineteen twelve.
She gave a dancing party.
That put Father on the shelve.
The Pi Phi's got her for a pledge.
Ward Goodrich won her heart.
But all the time she learned to cook.
And studied hard this art.
When Junior days came on apace,.
And she attained a serious bent,.
Her class did think she was the best.
And made her president.
But senior days alack, alas,.
They would not let her be.
From Rock Springs came an urgent call.
To come down and teach H.E.
So here she is to graduate!.
A trifle older now is she.
Her mother says without a doubt.
She's now reached twenty three.
^[7]

Up to her bustle: Anna put some of her humor in writing. On 9 January 1946, she writes to her brother Charles Washburn, "Last week I went out to get some broccoli out of the garden and while I remained on the path, stayed on top of the ground, but in reaching further for a head of broccoli, I got in over my shoe tops, lost my balance and tried to erect myself by pushing the mud with my hands. I thought for a few minutes soon would not be visible except for my bustle. Since then, I have let father gather the vegetable.". ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S55
2. ↑ Source: #S1425 Wyoming Marriages, Frank Delbert Spafford & Anna Rebecca Washburn, accessed 31 May 2016
3. ↑ Source: #S1425 California Death Index, 1940-1997, accessed 2 Jun 2015
4. ↑ Source: #S1225 accessed 9 Feb 2008
5. ↑ Source: #S1301
6. ↑ Source: #S1160
7. ↑ Source: #S50
8. ↑ Source: #S51 9 Jan 1946

• Source: S50 Scrapbooks kept by Anna (Washburn) Spafford. Originals in the possession of Katherine (Clement) Baumann. Extractand some photocopies in possession of the compiler
• Source: S51 Anna (Washburn) Spafford letters to brother Charles Washburn and nephew Beverly Washburn; in the possession of the compiler
• Source: S55 Compiler's knowledge, facts known to the compiler John Clement
• Source: S1160 The Washburn Family in America, two volumes, Edition: second edition Brenton P. Washburne Publication: B.P. Washburne, Buena Park, California, 1997
• Source: S1225 California Voter Registrations, database online http:\ancestry.com
• Source: S1301 Find A Grave, online at http://www.findagrave.com/
• Source: S1425 Family History and Genealogical Records at FamilySearch.org