Dottie Stumbo on December 28, 2005
Alice was my maternal grandmother, born in Frostburg on 1 1/15/1902. She told me her maiden name was McKenzie. But, I
was sent the following information from a McKenzie resesrcher:
"Laura P. McKenzie (parentage unknown to me), married to Edward Hay, had
a daughter Alice Magdalena Hay, born on 1 1/15/1902 and baptized in St.
Michael's on 3/29/1903."
In the 1920 Frostburg census, Alice McKenzie lived with her mother, Laura, and her step-father, Frederick La.. .(illegible), and
half-sisters Dorothy and Hazel (I never knew they were half-sisters— and I met the both).
Anyway, sometime in the very early 1920s Alice married Russell Speir (who appears in the Cleveland 1920 census living with
his mother Katherine (Kate Spiers on the census form). Russell, of course, is the son of Allen Speir, whose death record we
cannot seem to find, and grandson of Hugh Speir, who immigrated from Scotland.
(This Allen Speir would be the father of the Allen Speir from whence Harry descended. So I think that would make Harry and
my mother half-first-cousins)
Anyway, they lived in Cleveland, where Russell worked in the steel mills.
After having 3 children, John Russell Jr., Dorothy Marie, and Margaret Jane, Russell and Alice were divorced. Russell
re-married to Dorothy Hulsebus Craigs (she was the ex-wife of Walter Craigs, who was descended from a brother of Katherine
Craigs Makepeace Speir Bergholz).
Alice never remarried. She was Catholic. She died in Cleveland in 1976. 1 loved her dearly.
Sent by Dottie on December 28, 2005: 1 am the daughter of Margaret J Speir.
When I was a kid, my mom, my grandmother and I went to Frostburg.... Grandma wanted to see her sister & family.. .so we
stayed at Hazel's house, where I met her 3 daughters: Betty, Lois, and Carolyn. This was probably 1960 or 61.

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