Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Lewis Elmer SPEAKMAN
Son of Samuel M Speakman & Elizabeth A McMichael Speakman, brother of Mary E Speakman McComsey (also interred at Oxford Cemetery), and husband of Phoebe Eugenia Reynolds.
He and his sister Mary were raised in historic Hopewell outside of Oxford by his widowed father and his aunt Sarah Speakman who moved in to help care for the bereft family.
He was the father of 4 sons and 2 daughters: Charles Miller Speakman, Delmar Webb Speakman, Howard Elmer Speakman, Francis L Speakman, Daisy Speakman Barclay, and Pearl Speakman Wilson. By 1920 he had moved the family to Coatesville where they resided for the rest of his life. He was a member of Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church of Coatesville. In his later age Lewis was a custodian for the Coatesville schools for 11 years. He died of pneumonia in Coatesville Hospital at age 65 after a six months decline in health and six days as an inpatient. (brief biography compiled by great granddaughter Kim Adams)
Newpaper obituary kindly contributed by Dan Lindley:
Coatesville Record
May 1, 1937
Lewis E. Speakman, who had been employed for some years as a janitor at the Coatesville public schools, died yesterday [April 30, 1937] in Coatesville Hospital from an attack of pneumonia in his sixty-fifth year. He had not been well for about six months and had been a patient at the hospital for the past six days.
Mr. Speakman came to Coatesville from Oxford, and had been employed at the schools here for the past eleven years. He lived at 238-1/2 Harmony Street and was well known. He was a member of Olivet M.E. Church.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Eugene (sic) Reynolds Speakman; four sons and two daughters, Charles M. Speakman, Delmar W. Speakman, Mrs. William Markley (sic), Howard Elmer Speakman, Francis Speakman and Mrs. Lawrence Wilson, all of Coatesville, and a sister, Mrs. William McComsey, of Oxford.
The funeral will take place from the Gensemer Funeral Home in this city on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock (DST). Interment will be in Oxford Cemetery.
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