Ceilia Anna Speaker

Ceilia Anna was born on December 4th, 1864 in Shelby County, Illinois.¹   Ceilia Anna's father was David Speaker and her mother was Abigail Frances Wood.  Her maternal grandparents were Ransom Wood and Susan Taylor. She had two sisters named Ida May and Clara Bell.  She was the youngest of the three children. She had eight half-brothers and three half-sisters, named James Allen, Robert Eugene, William Ransom, Willard Perry, Albert Galatan, Charles Riley, Arthur Cleveland, George Washington, Gilla Frances, Lillian May and Anna Gertrude.  She died at the age of 69 on October 15th, 1934 in Pana, Illinois.¹