On This Day: September 24

1876: My paternal grandfather, Jasper Jackson Spurlock, son of John F. and Dialtha (Owens) Spurlock, was born in Hurricane, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He died on April 18, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. [Source: Los Angeles, California, death certificate no. 19-442238 (1940), Jasper Jackson Spurlock; County of Los Angeles, Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.]

J. J. Spurlock, circa 1915
Digital image; original held by Bettye Lou Gleason,
[ADDRESS WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY], Bossier City, LA, 2000.

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