Speed, Mary

Flourished: Louisville, Kentucky

Mary was Joshua F. Speed's half-sister, her mother being their father's first wife, Abby LeMaster. Mary never married.

Kathleen Jennings, Louisville's First Families (Louisville: Standard, 1920), 82; Robert L. Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed: Lincoln's Most Intimate Friend (Harrogate, TN: Lincoln Memorial University, 1943), 16; Thomas Speed, comp., Records and Memorials of the Speed Family (Louisville: Courier-Journal, 1892), 102.