Tris Speaker

Birth Name: Tristram E. Speaker

Date of Birth: April 4, 1888

Place of Birth: Hubbard, Texas

Date of Death: December 8, 1958

Place of Death: Whitney, Texas

Ethnicity: Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), English

Tris Speaker was an American baseball player. He played centerfield, mainly for the Cleveland Indians. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tris was the son of Mary Jane (Poer) and Archibald Speaker.

Tris’s maternal grandparents were David Poer and Mary Barnwell (the daughter of Robert Barnwell and Nancy).

Source: Genealogy of Tris Speaker (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com