PROFILE OVERVIEW
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TIMELINE
Birth: | April 29, 1908 Oxford, Holbrook Community, Ritchie County, West Virginia, USA | ||
Marriage: | at age 34 to Alice Lucinda Williams on November 11, 1942 Nashville, Coffee, Tennessee, USA | ||
Occupation: | Teacher | ||
Death: | January 20, 1996 at age 87 Sheppard Health Care Inc. of Ellenboro, West Virginia, USA | ||
Burial: | January 23, 1996 South Fork Cemetery, Ritchie County, West Virginia, USA |
DID YOU KNOW?
When Brad was born: |
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Top News Headlines
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President - Theodore Roosevelt |
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One of the Top Songs for 1908-- "She Sells Sea-Shells" by T. Sullivan |
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Average Costs throughout the US in 1908
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Fun Facts, Interesting Tidbits & Puzzling Trivia |
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Submitted by Bobbi Spiker-Conley, daughter of Robert Spiker: You probably know that Brad was a school teacher, but did you also know that one of his students was Robert Spiker? That's right. Brad's baby brother "suffered" under his brother's tutelage. Both brothers confirmed to me that Bob was held to a higher standard than other students in order to avoid any appearance of preferential treatment. One day, after lamenting to Uncle Brad that Daddy was disappointed in a "C" I had received in hand-writing, Uncle Brad showed me some papers that greatly lifted my wounded spirits -- several of my father's own report cards. Seems that Daddy wasn't the straight-A student I'd imagined him to be. You can imagine how my father squirmed and how Uncle Brad grinned at my newly discovered ammunition against the battle of the report cards. |
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Brad was one of the genealogists in our family. He traced dates for our family tree and recorded information bout the community in which he lived. Click this link to read his manuscript titled, "The Good-Will Community, A History of Holbrook, W.Va., 1814-1945".
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Bobbi Spiker Conley tells about the educational life lessons she learned from the "Spiker siblings" in her Library contribution, A Teacher Affects Eternity. Also in our Library is a copy of a letter written to Bradford Spiker by his wife Alice around December 1944 when he was serving in the military.
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The Paths Through our Garden
Continue exploring our garden: |
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The Spiker Family Tree -- See how deep our roots grow. | |
Grow Healthy Trees -- The story behind our family's Medical Tree | |
Heirloom Gardening - We're showing off some of our favorite family heirlooms. | |
Planting the Seeds -- Getting the children involved in our family's history. | |
Gardening Tools -- Just a few genealogy related tools and links we use to trace our lineage. | |