I am used to seeing the surnames Demonbreun and DeMumbrie spelled every which way one can think about spelling them (and a few that I haven’t a clue where they came up with the spelling). Amusingly, however, the Memphis Daily Appeal was fairly close with their spelling of DeMumbrie, but not very close at all to spelling the name Spencer correctly.
Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee), July 8, 1872, page 4, column 2:
-On Saturday a fatal row occurred at Demumbrey’s Landing, sixty-five miles down the river. A man named Magee, who had arrived from below, had an altercation with Steve Demumbrey, in the course of which Magee was shot. This was on Saturday.
And in case you were wondering, it happened on Saturday.
