This first one is the family of Pinkney Hardy Spence and Fannie Lucretia Gardner somewhere around the 
late winter or early spring of 1897, going (in the memory of what my mother remembered Royall Jr telling 
her) from left to right: James George Spence, Willie Cashwell Spence, Unknown (may have been a drifter 
wandering by as the picture was taken), Nora Mae Spence, Mary Eliza Cherry Gardner (mother-in-law of 
PH Spence), Pinkney Hardy Spence, Pinkney Blonard Spence (standing on fence), Fannie Lucretia 
Gardner Spence, Mary Adair Spence, one of the last two boys is Tollie Talmadge Spence and the other 
is unknown perhaps a neighborhood kid (I don’t really know which but judging from the age (abt 7) I would 
guess the smaller boy is Tollie ). I have been  told that Fannie is about 5-6 months pregnant with my 
grandfather, Royall H. Spence in this picture. 




Family of Pinkney Hardy Spence and Fannie Lucretia Gardner




The house was in Stoney Creek Township in Wayne County, from my research just north of Goldsboro 
city limits.

Marriage:Fannie Lucretia GARDNER-b)6 Feb.1861 d)27 Jan.1920
daughter of James Tillman GARDNER and Mary Elizabeth CHERRY,sister of Tempie
GARDNER who was married to Ezekial Spence

Pinkney Hardy Spence was the son of James Madison Spence of Liddell, N.C.  and Nancy Goodman 
(Spence Cemetery on this site)
He married Fannie Lucretia Gardner whose sister Tempie Gardner married his brother Ezekial Spence.





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