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Horatio Gates Spafford, II

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Birthplace: Albany, Albany County, New York, United States
Death: October 16, 1888 (59)
Jerusalem, Palestine
Place of Burial: Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
Immediate Family:

Son of Horatio Gates Spafford, I and Elizabeth Clark Spafford
Husband of Anna Tobine Spafford
Father of Bertha Hedges Vester; Anna "Annie" Spafford; Margaret Lee Spafford; Elisabeth "Bessie" Spafford; Tanetta Spafford and 3 others
Brother of Elizabeth Hewett Spafford; Florence Rachel Spafford; Eureka Spafford and Margaret Wentworth Spafford
Half brother of Julia A MacDonald

Managed by: Scott Christopher Swingle
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About Horatio Gates Spafford, II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford

In the early hours of 22 November 1873, Ville du Havre collided with the Scottish three-masted iron clipper, Loch Earn and sank in 12 minutes with the loss of 226 lives.[2] Only 61 passengers and 26 crew members survived, rescued by Loch Earn and subsequently, an American vessel, the Tremountain.

This shipwreck took Horatio Spafford's four daughters, about which event he penned It Is Well With My Soul.

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Horatio Gates Spafford, II's Timeline

1828
October 20, 1828
Albany, Albany County, New York, United States
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1878
March 24, 1878
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
March 24, 1878
1881
January 18, 1881