RECORD:BOOK BY JULIA ST.FRANCIS IZARD HEMENWAY:IZARD FAMILY OF ARKANSAS:
Grandfather decided to change location and bought land in the southern portion of the present site of Forrest City. Many years later the First Baptist Church was built on the site of this home as an honor to Governor Mark Izard. His little daughter, Rebecca, who was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a blaze around a wash-pot, seems to have had her accident here at this place, as she was buried on the opposite hill (present site of the Forrest City Cemetery) and possibly was the first to have been buried there. Sixth child of Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Shackelford Izard. Rebecca Izard, born Feb. 27th, 1835, St, Francis County. Died March 15th, 1839, St. Francis County, Arkansas.
Grandfather decided to change location and bought land in the southern portion of the present site of Forrest City. Many years later the First Baptist Church was built on the site of this home as an honor to Governor Mark Izard. His little daughter, Rebecca, who was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a blaze around a wash-pot, seems to have had her accident here at this place, as she was buried on the opposite hill (present site of the Forrest City Cemetery) and possibly was the first to have been buried there. Sixth child of Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Shackelford Izard. Rebecca Izard, born Feb. 27th, 1835, St, Francis County. Died March 15th, 1839, St. Francis County, Arkansas.
RECORD:BOOK BY JULIA ST.FRANCIS IZARD HEMENWAY:IZARD FAMILY OF ARKANSAS:
Grandfather decided to change location and bought land in the southern portion of the present site of Forrest City. Many years later the First Baptist Church was built on the site of this home as an honor to Governor Mark Izard. His little daughter, Rebecca, who was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a blaze around a wash-pot, seems to have had her accident here at this place, as she was buried on the opposite hill (present site of the Forrest City Cemetery) and possibly was the first to have been buried there. Sixth child of Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Shackelford Izard. Rebecca Izard, born Feb. 27th, 1835, St, Francis County. Died March 15th, 1839, St. Francis County, Arkansas.
Grandfather decided to change location and bought land in the southern portion of the present site of Forrest City. Many years later the First Baptist Church was built on the site of this home as an honor to Governor Mark Izard. His little daughter, Rebecca, who was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a blaze around a wash-pot, seems to have had her accident here at this place, as she was buried on the opposite hill (present site of the Forrest City Cemetery) and possibly was the first to have been buried there. Sixth child of Mark Whitaker and Rebecca Shackelford Izard. Rebecca Izard, born Feb. 27th, 1835, St, Francis County. Died March 15th, 1839, St. Francis County, Arkansas.
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