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Family of John SPINNEY and Charlotte J BIDELER
John SPINNEY b. 1820 Apr 55113 at Barrington, Nova Scotia, Canada5113. d. 1919 May 95113 at at home of nephew C Easterbrook, Mossy Glen, NY5113.
Charlotte J BIDELER b. 1848~42 at NY987. d. 1916 Apr5116. bd. Elmwood Cem., Caton, NY201.
Married5113 1880 Jan at Caton, NY. The obituary5113 for John Spinney mentions the date and place of his marriage to Mrs Charlotte B Force.
John Spinney was born5113 in Nova Scotia, Apr 5, 1820, the second son of Thomas and Margaret Spinney. At the age of 20, he became a sailor and spent the next 18 years at that avocation, touching ports in the eastern United States, California, Ceylon, Calcutta, England and Ireland.
He married first, November 1848, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mary Averill. They had two children. One child died in infancy; the other was J Arthur Spinney of San Adreas(sic), California, who survived him. Mary Spinney died in 1865.
Charlotte also appears as "Lottie" (1880 census, Caton, NY).
Charlotte J Force was the administratrix5112 for the estate of "Edwin" J Force, per a legal notice posted Sep 12, 1873.
Following Edward's death in 1873, Charlotte married second5113, in Caton, NY, Jan 1880, John Spinney.
In her will, Charlotte Spinney of Corning bequeathed5115 to her husband, John Spinney, the life use of her real estate. At her husband's death, life use of the property was to be given to (her sister) Mary, (her nephew) Clare, (her niece) Ethel May and Charlotte Calkins Easterbrook. At their deaths, the property was to pass to the Free Methodist Church, the proceeds to be used for missionary work.
In 1938, the Steuben County (NY) Surrogate court reserved a decision5114 regarding the property of Charlotte Spinney, in a suit brought by the General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church against Clair and Ethel Easterbrook, stating the Board had a claim to the property, as stated in Charlotte's will. Easterbrook testified that, in 1919 (apparently following the death of John Spinney,) he had made a settlement with the Methodist board, and presented cancelled checks amounting to $330.