Thank you Lester for the added information....
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Father
Shared named on headstone Anna
REV. AUGUST SPOMER. A minister in the Church of God in Christ,
and a horticulturist who has done something definite and permanent to help build up Central California, the Reverend August Spomer has made a success of both horticulture and viticulture in Arizona Colony, where he has valuable lands. He was born in Stepnoia, Samara, Russia, on September 9. 1856, the son of George Spomer, a farmer there. The father died in the district in which he had long lived and toiled, and his wife, who was Barbara Schaeffer before her marriage, still resides at the old home, the mother of six children, among whom August is the second oldest. August Spomer was brought up on a farm and attended the public schools and he served in the infantry of the Russian army, seeing nine months of service in the war with the Turks, and receiving, when the war was over, an honorable discharge. In November, 1877, he was married at the old home to Miss Anna Reinhart, a native of that section, and the daughter of George
and Christine (Salwasser) Reinhart, farmers who lived and passed away there. They had nine children, of whom Anna is the fifth oldest. Mr. and Mrs. Spomer were engaged in farming in their native land until 1888. In February of that year they decided to take the momentous step of coming to the United States. At first only Mr. Spomer came to Denver, Colo., where he worked in the Grant Smelter; but in the fall of 1890 his good wife and their four children joined him, when he moved to Helena, Mont., at which place he was again employed in a smelter. In 1896 Mr. Spomer came to Fresno, and leased a ranch of 160 acres at Wildflower. For six years he had a vineyard of raisins, and cultivated alfalfa and grew stock. He made some money, and then invested in a tract of raw land, buying sixty acres at eighty-five dollars an acre in Parent Colony No.2, Arizona Colony. He leveled the land for a fine residence and the necessary outbuildings, set out an orchard, and the first year had in about forty acres of peaches. The balance was devoted to alfalfa and vines. Then he bought five acres more, and each year added twenty acres, until he
had 120 acres in all, eighty acres in a peach orchard, and the balance in a vineyard. Recently, he has so divided up his property that he has given each of his children a part of all he had but ten acres.
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Father
Shared named on headstone Anna
REV. AUGUST SPOMER. A minister in the Church of God in Christ,
and a horticulturist who has done something definite and permanent to help build up Central California, the Reverend August Spomer has made a success of both horticulture and viticulture in Arizona Colony, where he has valuable lands. He was born in Stepnoia, Samara, Russia, on September 9. 1856, the son of George Spomer, a farmer there. The father died in the district in which he had long lived and toiled, and his wife, who was Barbara Schaeffer before her marriage, still resides at the old home, the mother of six children, among whom August is the second oldest. August Spomer was brought up on a farm and attended the public schools and he served in the infantry of the Russian army, seeing nine months of service in the war with the Turks, and receiving, when the war was over, an honorable discharge. In November, 1877, he was married at the old home to Miss Anna Reinhart, a native of that section, and the daughter of George
and Christine (Salwasser) Reinhart, farmers who lived and passed away there. They had nine children, of whom Anna is the fifth oldest. Mr. and Mrs. Spomer were engaged in farming in their native land until 1888. In February of that year they decided to take the momentous step of coming to the United States. At first only Mr. Spomer came to Denver, Colo., where he worked in the Grant Smelter; but in the fall of 1890 his good wife and their four children joined him, when he moved to Helena, Mont., at which place he was again employed in a smelter. In 1896 Mr. Spomer came to Fresno, and leased a ranch of 160 acres at Wildflower. For six years he had a vineyard of raisins, and cultivated alfalfa and grew stock. He made some money, and then invested in a tract of raw land, buying sixty acres at eighty-five dollars an acre in Parent Colony No.2, Arizona Colony. He leveled the land for a fine residence and the necessary outbuildings, set out an orchard, and the first year had in about forty acres of peaches. The balance was devoted to alfalfa and vines. Then he bought five acres more, and each year added twenty acres, until he
had 120 acres in all, eighty acres in a peach orchard, and the balance in a vineyard. Recently, he has so divided up his property that he has given each of his children a part of all he had but ten acres.
Thank you Lester for the added information....
~~~~~~~~~
Father
Shared named on headstone Anna
REV. AUGUST SPOMER. A minister in the Church of God in Christ,
and a horticulturist who has done something definite and permanent to help build up Central California, the Reverend August Spomer has made a success of both horticulture and viticulture in Arizona Colony, where he has valuable lands. He was born in Stepnoia, Samara, Russia, on September 9. 1856, the son of George Spomer, a farmer there. The father died in the district in which he had long lived and toiled, and his wife, who was Barbara Schaeffer before her marriage, still resides at the old home, the mother of six children, among whom August is the second oldest. August Spomer was brought up on a farm and attended the public schools and he served in the infantry of the Russian army, seeing nine months of service in the war with the Turks, and receiving, when the war was over, an honorable discharge. In November, 1877, he was married at the old home to Miss Anna Reinhart, a native of that section, and the daughter of George
and Christine (Salwasser) Reinhart, farmers who lived and passed away there. They had nine children, of whom Anna is the fifth oldest. Mr. and Mrs. Spomer were engaged in farming in their native land until 1888. In February of that year they decided to take the momentous step of coming to the United States. At first only Mr. Spomer came to Denver, Colo., where he worked in the Grant Smelter; but in the fall of 1890 his good wife and their four children joined him, when he moved to Helena, Mont., at which place he was again employed in a smelter. In 1896 Mr. Spomer came to Fresno, and leased a ranch of 160 acres at Wildflower. For six years he had a vineyard of raisins, and cultivated alfalfa and grew stock. He made some money, and then invested in a tract of raw land, buying sixty acres at eighty-five dollars an acre in Parent Colony No.2, Arizona Colony. He leveled the land for a fine residence and the necessary outbuildings, set out an orchard, and the first year had in about forty acres of peaches. The balance was devoted to alfalfa and vines. Then he bought five acres more, and each year added twenty acres, until he
had 120 acres in all, eighty acres in a peach orchard, and the balance in a vineyard. Recently, he has so divided up his property that he has given each of his children a part of all he had but ten acres.
~~~~~~~~~
Father
Shared named on headstone Anna
REV. AUGUST SPOMER. A minister in the Church of God in Christ,
and a horticulturist who has done something definite and permanent to help build up Central California, the Reverend August Spomer has made a success of both horticulture and viticulture in Arizona Colony, where he has valuable lands. He was born in Stepnoia, Samara, Russia, on September 9. 1856, the son of George Spomer, a farmer there. The father died in the district in which he had long lived and toiled, and his wife, who was Barbara Schaeffer before her marriage, still resides at the old home, the mother of six children, among whom August is the second oldest. August Spomer was brought up on a farm and attended the public schools and he served in the infantry of the Russian army, seeing nine months of service in the war with the Turks, and receiving, when the war was over, an honorable discharge. In November, 1877, he was married at the old home to Miss Anna Reinhart, a native of that section, and the daughter of George
and Christine (Salwasser) Reinhart, farmers who lived and passed away there. They had nine children, of whom Anna is the fifth oldest. Mr. and Mrs. Spomer were engaged in farming in their native land until 1888. In February of that year they decided to take the momentous step of coming to the United States. At first only Mr. Spomer came to Denver, Colo., where he worked in the Grant Smelter; but in the fall of 1890 his good wife and their four children joined him, when he moved to Helena, Mont., at which place he was again employed in a smelter. In 1896 Mr. Spomer came to Fresno, and leased a ranch of 160 acres at Wildflower. For six years he had a vineyard of raisins, and cultivated alfalfa and grew stock. He made some money, and then invested in a tract of raw land, buying sixty acres at eighty-five dollars an acre in Parent Colony No.2, Arizona Colony. He leveled the land for a fine residence and the necessary outbuildings, set out an orchard, and the first year had in about forty acres of peaches. The balance was devoted to alfalfa and vines. Then he bought five acres more, and each year added twenty acres, until he
had 120 acres in all, eighty acres in a peach orchard, and the balance in a vineyard. Recently, he has so divided up his property that he has given each of his children a part of all he had but ten acres.
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