Biography of Isabella Spessard, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mrs. Isabella (Mckamey) Spessard, of Sebastian County, Ark., was born in East
Tennessee in 1841, and is a  daughter of John C. and Zerelda (Tunnell) McKamey,
both of whom were born in East Tennessee and died in  Arkansas, where they
moved in 1869. The father was a farmer, but served one year in the army in
1838. Two of  their children are living: Isabella (Mrs. Spessard), and John S.,
a merchant of Huntington, Ark. William T. is  deceased. The grandparents, John
and Mary McKamey, were born in Virginia, and removed to East Tennessee  at an
early day. The maternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Worthington)
Tunnell, were born in North  Carolina and Virginia, in 1774 and 1781, and died
in 1861 and 1862, respectively. The grandfather was a farmer, and a colonel in
the War of 1812. He was sent ten times to the Legislature at Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs.  Spessard spent her early life in East Tennessee, and received some
education in Robertsville Academy.  September 12, 1867, she was married to
William R. Spessard, who was born in East Tennessee, in 1844, and by  whom she
became the mother of seven children: Zerelda A. Lipard, William M., Nancy E.
and Mary E., living,  and John F., Robert L., Ada D. and William R., deceased.
Mr. Spessard was a Master Mason in good standing  when he died, March 22, 1880.
His parents, William and Delana (Leach) Spessard, were both born in  Tennessee.
In 1862 he enlisted in Col. Cain's Artillery, and was captured at Cumberland
Gap, and taken to  Camp Douglas, Ill., but was not exchanged until near the
close of the war. He then returned home and resumed  farming.