Samuel Otts Spencer

Married Elvira McCracken May 21, 1827, with "consent of her parents."

There was a store or commercial firm in the Mantua area called Spencer and McCracken. Examples from estate papers of Samuel O. Spencer (ancestry.com):

• Unpaid bill by Abram Hines owed to Spencer & McCracken, items purchased April - November, 1836
• Promise to pay Spencer & McCracken $52.75 as of January 1, 1837
• Hugh Harrison promise to pay $7.81, November 1836
• Sarah Halsell bought beads and fabric, August 1836 through January 1837
• Hardy H. Hancock promise to pay $40, July 1837
• John Brannan promise to pay, September 1837
• Philip Massey promise to pay $45, November 1837
• Lucinda Park bill of $39.17, December 1837
• Willis Lavender and Thomas Lavender owe $25, December 1837
• William Price owed $30, January 1838

Residences

• Lived 1828: Mantua area, Greene Co., AL [Probate document, Estate of James Storey] https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRTM-9TV5?mode=g&i=1&c...
• Bought land 1835: Mantua area, from the Estate of John McCracken within Township 23, 3 East https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRRG-97H2?mode=g&i=43&...
• Lived 1840: Greene Co., AL next to brother-in-law Ishmael McCracken [1840 Greene Co., AL census] https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYN-33JH?mode=g&i=88&...