John Alvin Spoon family

John Alvin Spoon was the fourth child of Henry Spoon and Sarah Catherine Reitzel. He was born in Amo ,
Indiana in 1864 and moved with his mother and siblings at the age of 13 to Kansas , where he became one of the area's leading citizens. He later moved with his family to
Alhambra, California , where he died in 1952.

	John Alvin Spoon poses for a tintype in his 20s, shortly after he moved to Kansas and began to stake out his own farmland.
	Six of the children of John Alvin Spoon and Laura Spoon. Top, from left: Carrie, Cleo, Laura. Bottom: Alvin, Adrian, Floyd.
	John Alvin Spoon during his days of retirement in California in the 1940s.
	John Alvin Spoon's house at 213 S. Chapel Ave. in Alhambra. Several family members lived there in the 1920s, ˜30s and ˜40s.
	John Alvin Spoon chats with his oldest son, Cleo, some time in the 1940s.
	John poses with his wife Laura in their later years. Laura Jane Smith died in 1941.
	The John Alvin Spoon family outside the Kansas farm house. Back row, from left: Carrie, Cleo, Floyd, Faye, Alvin . Front row, from left: Adrian, John, Clifford, Laura.
	Family members stand on the porch of the new Spoon farm house, completed in 1900.
	John and Laura pose in one of the last known photos showing them together.
	The Spoon family poses for a group photo outside the Chapel Ave. house about 1949.
	Oliver Spoon, the older brother of John Alvin, poses for a tintype.
	Another Spoon family photo, probably from the late 1930s.
	The Spoon men at the beach. Back row, from left: Cleo, Alvin, John, Adrian, Hartley Hooker. Front row: Clifford, Paul Carswell.
	The Spoon women at the beach. Back row, from left: Sarah, Carrie, Laura, Beulah, Alta. Front row: Alice, Wanda, Donna.
	Laura Faye Spoon (1899-1987) poses with his her husband, Forrest Applegate. Laura and her brother Floyd were the only two of seven children of John Alvin Spoon to remain in Kansas .