Ann(a) Asprea (Spears) Hayden Anderson

Annarosa Asprea/Spears Hayden Anderson

Ann Spears was her anglicized maiden name, but she was born Annarosa Asprea in 1897 in the village of Roccella Ionica in Calabria, Italy, daughter of Nicola and Maria Rosa Muscolo (who was herself the daughter of Pasquale Muscolo). Ann moved to the United States with her parents when she was very young (probably about three years old).

I understand that she married Floyd Leonard Hayden and had two children. The elder was my grandfather, Andrew Jackson, in 1913. The second was a daughter, Margaret Hayden, who later married and divorced twice and then committed suicide. I can only imagine how this affected Ann. I have memories of my great-grandmother playing her organ (which I also enjoyed playing by ear) in her trailer across the street from my grandparents mobile home. I remember she liked to go to church and had a little Chihuahua named Tina.

I understand that after she was widowed in 1917, her sister helped raise her children. She became a mistress of a mafia boss in the Northwestern United States for 19 years. Later in life she married an elected judge called Spray Anderson, who was a creep who made a pass at my mother (young enough to be his granddaughter). Ann divorced him eventually, probably because he was such a philanderer. Ann lived for a while in a River Pines, California house that I believe my grandfather (her son) built (he DID build a house in Monterey after he married my grandmother, who had my father and my uncle). The house in River Pines was eventually sold and she moved to Candlelight Village, a trailer park in the next town (Mt. Aukum) right by Somerset, about 15 miles outside of Placerville. It is VERY rural. Eventually she suffered from Alzheimers or some such disorder which made her unable to care for herself and she died about 1978.

RELATED TO BRITNEY SPEARS?

I read somewhere that Britney Spears is Italian-American. I have seen in various genealogical sites with the "Spears" last name that she might have relations of this name, so it is possible we are related.