OBIT: DEPORT TIMES 25 Apr 1935, Thursday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library: Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Mt. Pleasant church for Mrs. Robert Isbell, 79, of Clarksville, who was one of the pioneers of the Deport community. She died Tuesday afternoon of an acute attack of indigestion after an illness of only three days. Rev. J. E. Peaden of Bogata assisted by Rev. Toole of Clarksville, conducted the rites. Interment was at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Mary Susan Westbrook was born July 1, 1855. In June 1873 she was married to Robert Isbell. To this union twelve children were born, three of whom survive, John, Jim and George Isbell of Clarksville. She is also survived by three brothers, John Sr., Dave and Jim Westbrook and one sister, Mrs. J. B. Nixon all of Deport. She professed religion at the age of twenty and joined the Deport Methodist Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. Robert Isbell died in January 1924, after the family had moved from Deport to Clarksville. He was also buried at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery, west of Deport.
OBIT: DEPORT TIMES 25 Apr 1935, Thursday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library: Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Mt. Pleasant church for Mrs. Robert Isbell, 79, of Clarksville, who was one of the pioneers of the Deport community. She died Tuesday afternoon of an acute attack of indigestion after an illness of only three days. Rev. J. E. Peaden of Bogata assisted by Rev. Toole of Clarksville, conducted the rites. Interment was at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Mary Susan Westbrook was born July 1, 1855. In June 1873 she was married to Robert Isbell. To this union twelve children were born, three of whom survive, John, Jim and George Isbell of Clarksville. She is also survived by three brothers, John Sr., Dave and Jim Westbrook and one sister, Mrs. J. B. Nixon all of Deport. She professed religion at the age of twenty and joined the Deport Methodist Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. Robert Isbell died in January 1924, after the family had moved from Deport to Clarksville. He was also buried at the Mt. Pleasant cemetery, west of Deport.
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