A brief synopsis of the life of Spencer Shearer shows that he was a grandson of Nathan DeHart and born June 13, 1835, and died May 23, 1881. He was a boy of precocious mental ability and of a moral and spiritual disposition, fond of books and literature, and was a natural genius at vocal music. He attended the rural subscription schools for several years and they �studied aloud.� Here he mastered the subjects taught, then his father sent him to Hiwassee College in Tennessee. He and Marian Moss, I think, were the first boys from Clay County to go to college.

Spencer, when about fourteen years of age, became partly paralyzed in his legs causing him to limp and finally he had to go on crutches - this was a great handicap. He attended college for a time, then returned home with a keen mind and a melodious voice; was a member of the Baptist church; learned to sing in the Old Christian Harmony songbook; he wold spend many Sundays going from school house and church to lead the people in song. His voice was wafted over the balmy breezes many, many times. He taught school for years there. Married Arminda Jones and to their union was born Allen Shearer who is in the mercantile business at LaFayette, Ga., and part or most of his children went to college; one son a banker; one a B. D. and Phd. And was president of the Summer School at Hiwassee College in Tennessee; John a prosperous farmer, died a few years ago; James, who operates a bus line at Chattanooga, Tennessee; William, a modern farmer at Lyerly, Ga, Grayson, a salesman of high repute; Samantha died years ago; Laura married a James Coleman and they have a fine river farm near Hayesville, N. C., she and her husband are great church workers.

Spencer Shearer often taught his children at home and would sing to and for them; he taught me when a child to sing �I want to be an angel and with an angel stand.� He counseled his children when on his death bed- he died May 23,1881. I think he went to sing with the angels and the songs of Moses and the Lamb there in heaven to live with Christ and wait for his people and us to join that redemptive throng.

Contributed by John R. DeHart
Document Prepared by Gloria Lambert

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