Joseph Spencer

Joseph Spencer’s life began the way many stories from Sequoyah County once did – simply, humbly and surrounded by the forces of nature. Born on May 3, 1943, in Bird Flat north of Marble City, Spencer entered the world at home in a log house with a dirt floor, during what locals still remember as the biggest flood the county ever saw. Roads were washed out, his father was overseas fighting in the war and life from the very beginning required grit.