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