EDNA LUCILLE⁴ SPADE (WILLIAM LEWIS³, JOHN GEORGE², ANTON¹ SPÄTH) was born May 19, 1913 in Elm Creek, Buffalo County, Nebraska, and died February 08, 1994 in Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown, MD. She married DARL VANN November 01, 1933 in Hagerstown, MD, son of CAROLINE ELIZABETH. He was born November 25, 1911 in Gormania, WV, and died June 21, 1988 in Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co. WV.

We, the current family historians for the Spade family, are deeply indebted to Edna Lucille Spade Vann for the meticulous genealogy work she did during her lifetime. The idea for this tribute to her came from Harry Alston Spade Jr. who said, "Just a thought--Edna Vann died 10 years ago. I'm wondering what she would think about all the recent developments concerning the family tree." Bruce Allen Spade said, "I know she would be very happy that her work is being carried on. I don't think we would be this far along without her many hours of work and dedication, and she did it the hard way--without computers." Sylvia Spade-Kershaw adds:

Among my father's papers was a tattered, watermarked manilla booklet with the following handwritten letter to (I assume), my grandmother, Ina Daisy Clark Spade, and signed "a cousin, Edna Spade Vann. Apparently she sent many of these letters and booklets to her cousins. As you can see, there was no date on the letter, but included in the booklet were 15 typewritten pages of family history beginning with Anthony Spade, Sr. and Rosana Doroda Wolfe. The typewritten pages included many hand-written additions as family members died and were born. This became the basis for my tentative exploration into my own Spade family tree.

Another booklet in my father's papers was a 26-page typewritten document entitled the 'Descendants of Christian Wilhelm Spade.' According to my stepmother, both of these documents were given to my dad by his friend, whose name was either Wayne Hanks or Wayne Akers. We are indebted to Wayne for sharing these documents, to Edna Spade Vann for her tireless and thorough efforts, to whomever compiled and typed the "Descendants of Christian Wilhelm Spade, and to all of the family historians who came before us and documented this information. What you see in this web site is the result of their hard work and the boundless contributions from Harry Alston Spade Jr., Bruce Allen Spade, and all the family members who continue to contribute to the Spade Family archives of information.