Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Mary Heaton Beers

View famous kin of Mary Heaton Beers

• • Grandmother of James Spader — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Henry Augustin Beers 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Heaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Aug 1885 
  • Birth Location:
  • Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  •  
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Vanderbilt Reginald Spader
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Aug 1914 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Stoddard Greenwood "Todd" Spader (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Vanderbilt Spader

  • Notes: 

  • The newspapers in 1911 were filled with scandal about the snubbing of Mary Heaton Beers by members of the U.S. Naval Academy that went all the way to the Secretary of the Navy who ordered an apology be made to Miss Beers.

• Additional marriages for Mary Heaton Beers

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Edwin Charles Thresher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1937
  • Marriage Location:
  • Denver, Colorado

• Sources for Mary Heaton Beers

  • ¹ Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 21 DEC 1953, p. 11, Wedding announcement for Stoddard Greenwood Spader and Jean Fraser.
  • ² Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006, Marriage record for Edwin Charles Thresher and Mary B. Spader.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Suffolk County, 1930, Brookhaven, E.D. 52-26, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 20.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NY, Nassau County, 1920, Malvern, E.D. 27, Sheet 8B, Image 7 of 8.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, VT, Orange County, 1940, Newbury, E.D. 9-10, Sheet 1A, Image 1 of 10.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, CT, New Haven County, 1900, New Haven, E.D. 351, Sheet 7B, Image 14 of 49.
  • ⁷ New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937, Marriage record for Vanderbilt R Spader and Mary Heaton.
  • ⁸ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 16 AUG 1914, p. 50, Wedding announcement for Vanderbilt R Spader and Mary Heaton Beers.
  • ⁹ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Appication for son Stoddard Greenwood Spader.
  • ¹⁰ Gerberich, Albert H., The Brenneman History, Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Mennonite Publishing House (1938), 634.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 432.

James Spader photo by Thibault (CC BY-SA 2.0)