Hiram DeSpain

Hiram was born in 1794 in Green Co.,Kentucky.  Hiram's father was Peter DeSpain and his mother was Nancy Skaggs.  His paternal grandfather was John DeSpain and his paternal grandmother is Susan Scott; his maternal grandparents are Henry Skaggs and Mary Thompson. He had twelve brothers and four sisters, named John M., William Marshall, Stephen, Mark, James Simpson, Harrison, Silas, William Joseph, George Washington, Andrew Drury, Thomas, Edmund, Susanna Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy and Lucy Ann.  He was the third oldest of the seventeen children. He had a half-brother named William Perry.  He died at the age of 42 on September 14th, 1836 in Madison Co.,Missouri.

‌Hiram and Nancy Ann were married in a religious ceremony on October 2nd, 1812 in Pitmans Creek,Green Co.,Kentucky.  They had two sons and a daughter, named William, Marshall and Lydia Ann.