The Bacon Spencer Family Reunion has been around since 1892. It started with the families of two sisters Naomi and Lydia Bennett. Naomi married Ira Bacon and Lydia married Alvin Spencer, and the two families were very close as outlined in Sketches by Willard A. Bacon & L, M. Brown

Now, Ira and Naomi Bacon and Alvin and Lydia Spencer passed on long before this Reunion began.  It was, in fact, their children and grandchildren that felt the need to start a family reunion based on the closeness and family ties ingrained in the children by the two sisters, for a family that was being stretched across the country.

Down through the years the family has, of course, grown and scattered, even more, about North America. Some moved to the Midwest, while others moved up into Saskatchewan, Canada, some on to California, and from these places to pretty much all throughout the United States and Canada. It is our hope to reunite and document as many family members as possible.

The Bacon Spencer Reunion is held annually on the weekend of the second Sunday of August. We have just recently begun planning a whole weekend of activities. So if you are interested, contact us for more information, and of course, as much information as possible will be posted on this website.

The list of names associated with the Bacon Spencer Reunion are: Bacon, Spencer, Briggs, Lewis, Whipple, Williams, Fuller, Boon, Neal, Schutt, Grover, Teater, Whitney, Nourse, Burford, Nye, Truax, Mays, Shepardson, Martin, Hinsdale, Oliver, and Andrews. Lyman Bacon and Elizabeth Bacon Rozell, brother and sister of Ira Bacon, along with Benjamin Franklin Bacon, Henry M. Bacon, and Amanda Bacon Silvus Gibbs, children of Ira and Naomi Bacon, relocated in the Illinois, Wisconsin and Midwest United States in general and the names of the their descendants: Gibbs, Silvus, Littlejohn, Brown, Smith, Abernathy, Ramey, Cornell, Powers, Sester, Michaels, Hovey, and of course Bacon. This list is by no means conclusive or complete and may be updated at any time. If you belong to us, Welcome Home! It will be great hearing from you.

"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born."

~Pearl S. Buck