Western Spy

January 26, 1811 

SPENCER, COL. OLIVER - Died, at Columbia, on Tuesday last, after a short illness Col. Oliver Spencer, aged 74.  Col. Spencer was an active and valuable officer in the American revolution, an early and highly respected inhabitant of this state.  His remains were interred in the Methodist burying ground in this place on Thursday attended by a numerous and respectable concourse of people of both sexes from the townships, of Columbia and Cincinnati.  An appropriate discourse was delivered on the occasion by the Rev. Joshua L. Wilson.

{A Byographical sketch of the life of Col. Spencer is deferred till next week, when we expect to receive it from one better qualified than ourselves, to do justice to his memory--a respectable, and intimate friend of the deceased.}