Note: Copied from "Flower Article" by Dana Spencer
Mrs. Spencer is the wife of my 6th cousin 3 times removed. She changed her name to William Loring; referred to as Mrs. William Loring Spencer. William Loring was an actress; she never married until she married G.E. Spencer The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, 19 Sept 1877, p. 4, col.1 stated Spencer married a niece of General Loring of Egypt (from the Cincinnati Enquirer), New York, 12 Sept 1877. United States Senator Spencer, of Alabama, was privately married to Miss May Nunez, a well-known actress. The wedding occurred at 7 o'clock in the morning in the parochial residence of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, in west Fourteenth Street. Spencer, being a protestant, had to get a special dispensation from Father Quinn, Vicar General under Cardinal McClosky, for the ceremony. For certain reasons the bride desired the wedding to be secret, and only a few of her intricate friends were present--among them Hon. Thomas Murphy ex-custom House Collector, and General Pat. H. Jones, Register of the City. Hon. John Morrissy, the _____ _____ friend of Spencer, was invited; but, being at his club house in Saratoga, could not attend. The groom and bride were dressed in morning traveling costume. Miss Nunez wore a light brown silk, trimmed with velvet, and a traveling bonnet of straw. Spencer wore a black Albert Coat and vest and gray trousers. Peardon married the couple. When he asked, "do you, George E. Spencer, take May Nunez", the bride interrupted him and said her name was William Loring Nunez. It seems that was the name with which she was christened, but from girlhood she has been called May Nunez. Her maiden name Loring is after her uncle, Gen. Loring, who is now serving in the Egyptian Army. Spencer is forty-two and his bride twenty-five. He is a portly, ruddy-faced blond, and she is a dashing, animated brunette, and looks like a Spanish beauty. He first saw her two years ago in the New York Post Office, where she was employed as searcher in the dead letter department. She was taking the place of her father, a poor clerk, who was stricken with paralysis and was earning his salary to support him. Spencer was introduced, and was smitten by her appearance. He met her afterwards in the house of Gen. Jones, Miss Nunez being a protégé of his wife, and has been a suitor for her hand ever since. He had a rival in a Dr. Hunter, a poor, young physician in this city; and it is on his account, it is believed, that Miss Nunez kept the marriage a secret from all except her most intimate friends. He was deeply in love with her. After the marriage Senator Spencer and his bride took the cars for Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, where they are to spend the honeymoon. They had a place car to themselves, and will reach Chicago Thursday day. Miss Nunez's father was a major in the Confederate army. After the war he started a business here, but became bankrupt, after which his daughter studied for the stage. She made her debut in the Academy of Music here in 1875, in a performance given to pay the expenses of the American Rifle Team to Ireland. Dion Boucicault saw her, and at once engaged her to travel with his troupe. She played in "Shaughraun" in western cities, and afterward made an engagement with Daly's Fifthe Avenue Company, playing i "Divorce", "Man & Wife", and "Piqure" through the country. Her last appearance here was last Saturday night, in "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler". Miss Nunez is Spencer's second wife. His first died in California of a broken heart. It is saw that he was once a bar-tender in San Francesco. He and his bride will make Washington their home until the expiration of his Senatorial term in 1879. According to the book, Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A. 1862-1865, Wm. Stanley Hoole. Confederate Publishing Co., Tuscaloosa, AL, 1960, p. 141, it states that his second wife was also an author of Salt-Lake Fruit (1883), Story of Mary (1884, re-issued as Dennis Day, Carpet-Bagger (1887), A Plucky One (1887), and Calamity Jane (1887).
- Dana Spencer
Added: Dec. 29, 2010
Note: Family Search lists her mother as Eliza Loring, who was born in Wilmington, NC. Her father is listed as Nunez, who was born in Portugal.
Mrs. Spencer is the wife of my 6th cousin 3 times removed. She changed her name to William Loring; referred to as Mrs. William Loring Spencer. William Loring was an actress; she never married until she married G.E. Spencer The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, 19 Sept 1877, p. 4, col.1 stated Spencer married a niece of General Loring of Egypt (from the Cincinnati Enquirer), New York, 12 Sept 1877. United States Senator Spencer, of Alabama, was privately married to Miss May Nunez, a well-known actress. The wedding occurred at 7 o'clock in the morning in the parochial residence of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, in west Fourteenth Street. Spencer, being a protestant, had to get a special dispensation from Father Quinn, Vicar General under Cardinal McClosky, for the ceremony. For certain reasons the bride desired the wedding to be secret, and only a few of her intricate friends were present--among them Hon. Thomas Murphy ex-custom House Collector, and General Pat. H. Jones, Register of the City. Hon. John Morrissy, the _____ _____ friend of Spencer, was invited; but, being at his club house in Saratoga, could not attend. The groom and bride were dressed in morning traveling costume. Miss Nunez wore a light brown silk, trimmed with velvet, and a traveling bonnet of straw. Spencer wore a black Albert Coat and vest and gray trousers. Peardon married the couple. When he asked, "do you, George E. Spencer, take May Nunez", the bride interrupted him and said her name was William Loring Nunez. It seems that was the name with which she was christened, but from girlhood she has been called May Nunez. Her maiden name Loring is after her uncle, Gen. Loring, who is now serving in the Egyptian Army. Spencer is forty-two and his bride twenty-five. He is a portly, ruddy-faced blond, and she is a dashing, animated brunette, and looks like a Spanish beauty. He first saw her two years ago in the New York Post Office, where she was employed as searcher in the dead letter department. She was taking the place of her father, a poor clerk, who was stricken with paralysis and was earning his salary to support him. Spencer was introduced, and was smitten by her appearance. He met her afterwards in the house of Gen. Jones, Miss Nunez being a protégé of his wife, and has been a suitor for her hand ever since. He had a rival in a Dr. Hunter, a poor, young physician in this city; and it is on his account, it is believed, that Miss Nunez kept the marriage a secret from all except her most intimate friends. He was deeply in love with her. After the marriage Senator Spencer and his bride took the cars for Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, where they are to spend the honeymoon. They had a place car to themselves, and will reach Chicago Thursday day. Miss Nunez's father was a major in the Confederate army. After the war he started a business here, but became bankrupt, after which his daughter studied for the stage. She made her debut in the Academy of Music here in 1875, in a performance given to pay the expenses of the American Rifle Team to Ireland. Dion Boucicault saw her, and at once engaged her to travel with his troupe. She played in "Shaughraun" in western cities, and afterward made an engagement with Daly's Fifthe Avenue Company, playing i "Divorce", "Man & Wife", and "Piqure" through the country. Her last appearance here was last Saturday night, in "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler". Miss Nunez is Spencer's second wife. His first died in California of a broken heart. It is saw that he was once a bar-tender in San Francesco. He and his bride will make Washington their home until the expiration of his Senatorial term in 1879. According to the book, Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A. 1862-1865, Wm. Stanley Hoole. Confederate Publishing Co., Tuscaloosa, AL, 1960, p. 141, it states that his second wife was also an author of Salt-Lake Fruit (1883), Story of Mary (1884, re-issued as Dennis Day, Carpet-Bagger (1887), A Plucky One (1887), and Calamity Jane (1887).
- Dana Spencer
Added: Dec. 29, 2010
Note: Family Search lists her mother as Eliza Loring, who was born in Wilmington, NC. Her father is listed as Nunez, who was born in Portugal.
Note: Copied from "Flower Article" by Dana Spencer
Mrs. Spencer is the wife of my 6th cousin 3 times removed. She changed her name to William Loring; referred to as Mrs. William Loring Spencer. William Loring was an actress; she never married until she married G.E. Spencer The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, 19 Sept 1877, p. 4, col.1 stated Spencer married a niece of General Loring of Egypt (from the Cincinnati Enquirer), New York, 12 Sept 1877. United States Senator Spencer, of Alabama, was privately married to Miss May Nunez, a well-known actress. The wedding occurred at 7 o'clock in the morning in the parochial residence of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, in west Fourteenth Street. Spencer, being a protestant, had to get a special dispensation from Father Quinn, Vicar General under Cardinal McClosky, for the ceremony. For certain reasons the bride desired the wedding to be secret, and only a few of her intricate friends were present--among them Hon. Thomas Murphy ex-custom House Collector, and General Pat. H. Jones, Register of the City. Hon. John Morrissy, the _____ _____ friend of Spencer, was invited; but, being at his club house in Saratoga, could not attend. The groom and bride were dressed in morning traveling costume. Miss Nunez wore a light brown silk, trimmed with velvet, and a traveling bonnet of straw. Spencer wore a black Albert Coat and vest and gray trousers. Peardon married the couple. When he asked, "do you, George E. Spencer, take May Nunez", the bride interrupted him and said her name was William Loring Nunez. It seems that was the name with which she was christened, but from girlhood she has been called May Nunez. Her maiden name Loring is after her uncle, Gen. Loring, who is now serving in the Egyptian Army. Spencer is forty-two and his bride twenty-five. He is a portly, ruddy-faced blond, and she is a dashing, animated brunette, and looks like a Spanish beauty. He first saw her two years ago in the New York Post Office, where she was employed as searcher in the dead letter department. She was taking the place of her father, a poor clerk, who was stricken with paralysis and was earning his salary to support him. Spencer was introduced, and was smitten by her appearance. He met her afterwards in the house of Gen. Jones, Miss Nunez being a protégé of his wife, and has been a suitor for her hand ever since. He had a rival in a Dr. Hunter, a poor, young physician in this city; and it is on his account, it is believed, that Miss Nunez kept the marriage a secret from all except her most intimate friends. He was deeply in love with her. After the marriage Senator Spencer and his bride took the cars for Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, where they are to spend the honeymoon. They had a place car to themselves, and will reach Chicago Thursday day. Miss Nunez's father was a major in the Confederate army. After the war he started a business here, but became bankrupt, after which his daughter studied for the stage. She made her debut in the Academy of Music here in 1875, in a performance given to pay the expenses of the American Rifle Team to Ireland. Dion Boucicault saw her, and at once engaged her to travel with his troupe. She played in "Shaughraun" in western cities, and afterward made an engagement with Daly's Fifthe Avenue Company, playing i "Divorce", "Man & Wife", and "Piqure" through the country. Her last appearance here was last Saturday night, in "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler". Miss Nunez is Spencer's second wife. His first died in California of a broken heart. It is saw that he was once a bar-tender in San Francesco. He and his bride will make Washington their home until the expiration of his Senatorial term in 1879. According to the book, Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A. 1862-1865, Wm. Stanley Hoole. Confederate Publishing Co., Tuscaloosa, AL, 1960, p. 141, it states that his second wife was also an author of Salt-Lake Fruit (1883), Story of Mary (1884, re-issued as Dennis Day, Carpet-Bagger (1887), A Plucky One (1887), and Calamity Jane (1887).
- Dana Spencer
Added: Dec. 29, 2010
Note: Family Search lists her mother as Eliza Loring, who was born in Wilmington, NC. Her father is listed as Nunez, who was born in Portugal.
Mrs. Spencer is the wife of my 6th cousin 3 times removed. She changed her name to William Loring; referred to as Mrs. William Loring Spencer. William Loring was an actress; she never married until she married G.E. Spencer The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, 19 Sept 1877, p. 4, col.1 stated Spencer married a niece of General Loring of Egypt (from the Cincinnati Enquirer), New York, 12 Sept 1877. United States Senator Spencer, of Alabama, was privately married to Miss May Nunez, a well-known actress. The wedding occurred at 7 o'clock in the morning in the parochial residence of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, in west Fourteenth Street. Spencer, being a protestant, had to get a special dispensation from Father Quinn, Vicar General under Cardinal McClosky, for the ceremony. For certain reasons the bride desired the wedding to be secret, and only a few of her intricate friends were present--among them Hon. Thomas Murphy ex-custom House Collector, and General Pat. H. Jones, Register of the City. Hon. John Morrissy, the _____ _____ friend of Spencer, was invited; but, being at his club house in Saratoga, could not attend. The groom and bride were dressed in morning traveling costume. Miss Nunez wore a light brown silk, trimmed with velvet, and a traveling bonnet of straw. Spencer wore a black Albert Coat and vest and gray trousers. Peardon married the couple. When he asked, "do you, George E. Spencer, take May Nunez", the bride interrupted him and said her name was William Loring Nunez. It seems that was the name with which she was christened, but from girlhood she has been called May Nunez. Her maiden name Loring is after her uncle, Gen. Loring, who is now serving in the Egyptian Army. Spencer is forty-two and his bride twenty-five. He is a portly, ruddy-faced blond, and she is a dashing, animated brunette, and looks like a Spanish beauty. He first saw her two years ago in the New York Post Office, where she was employed as searcher in the dead letter department. She was taking the place of her father, a poor clerk, who was stricken with paralysis and was earning his salary to support him. Spencer was introduced, and was smitten by her appearance. He met her afterwards in the house of Gen. Jones, Miss Nunez being a protégé of his wife, and has been a suitor for her hand ever since. He had a rival in a Dr. Hunter, a poor, young physician in this city; and it is on his account, it is believed, that Miss Nunez kept the marriage a secret from all except her most intimate friends. He was deeply in love with her. After the marriage Senator Spencer and his bride took the cars for Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, where they are to spend the honeymoon. They had a place car to themselves, and will reach Chicago Thursday day. Miss Nunez's father was a major in the Confederate army. After the war he started a business here, but became bankrupt, after which his daughter studied for the stage. She made her debut in the Academy of Music here in 1875, in a performance given to pay the expenses of the American Rifle Team to Ireland. Dion Boucicault saw her, and at once engaged her to travel with his troupe. She played in "Shaughraun" in western cities, and afterward made an engagement with Daly's Fifthe Avenue Company, playing i "Divorce", "Man & Wife", and "Piqure" through the country. Her last appearance here was last Saturday night, in "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler". Miss Nunez is Spencer's second wife. His first died in California of a broken heart. It is saw that he was once a bar-tender in San Francesco. He and his bride will make Washington their home until the expiration of his Senatorial term in 1879. According to the book, Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A. 1862-1865, Wm. Stanley Hoole. Confederate Publishing Co., Tuscaloosa, AL, 1960, p. 141, it states that his second wife was also an author of Salt-Lake Fruit (1883), Story of Mary (1884, re-issued as Dennis Day, Carpet-Bagger (1887), A Plucky One (1887), and Calamity Jane (1887).
- Dana Spencer
Added: Dec. 29, 2010
Note: Family Search lists her mother as Eliza Loring, who was born in Wilmington, NC. Her father is listed as Nunez, who was born in Portugal.
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