Individual Details

History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 612.
[Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct]

NOA SPEARS, banker, Georgetown, Ky.; was born in Bourbon County, Ky., on
the 7th of March, 1829. He is the son of Solomon Spears, for many years
a farmer in that county, a native of Kentucky, descendants of Virginians.
His mother, Margaret Kerfoot, was a native of the Shenandoah Valley,
Virginia, and the mother of six children, of whom he was the youngest. He
received his early education in the Bourbon County schools, and finished
his literary course at Bethany College, Virginia, where he graduated in


1848. He then embarked in mercantile pursuits at Paris Ky., before he had
attained his majority; after four years he retired from business, and
engaged in farming, in Bourbon County, which he continued for several
years, when, in 1853, he again established himself in business, opening a


store in Georgetown, for the sale of dry goods, boots and shoes, etc.,
which he carried on successfully for some time. In 1860 he was appointed
clerk in the Framer's Bank, at Georgetown, and in 1868, he was elected
cashier; which position he still fills. During the war he felt that it


was his duty to support the Union, but, nevertheless, his sympathies were
strongly Southern. Being unable to resist the natural current of events,
however, he took no active part in the struggle, but was afterward
arrested, owing to an overstrained interpretation of a Federal order, and
lodged in prison; but after a short time, was released upon the
interference and solicitations of friends, who were both numerous and warm.
Mr. Spears is a member of the Christian Church, and takes a strong and
active interest in all religious matters, doing much by his efforts and


sympathies toward the spread of the Gospel. He was married to Fannie C.
Gano, of Bourbon County, in 1849, who died soon after, leaving him a
childless widower; in 1851, he married his second wife, in the person of
Georgia A. Crockett, of Georgetown, and became the father of two children;
and in 1864, he was again united in marriage, this time to Mary C.
Steffee, also of Georgetown, which union was blessed with two children.


His four children are still living. Mr. Spears is a man of many fine
traits of character, and is of a genial nature; has an integrity that is
unquestioned; fond of innocent amusements; obliging and courteous in
his manners and domestic in habits.

Birth	7 Mar 1829	Paris, KY
Marriage	27 Feb 1849	Frances Conn Gano

Spouse	Frances Conn Gano (1832 - 1850)
Child	John Gano Spears (1850 - 1850)