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Rebecca COBURN

Rebecca COBURN

Female 1779 - 1850  (70 years)

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  • Name Rebecca COBURN 
    Born 11 Dec 1779  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1850  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Buried (UNMARKED GRAVE)  Flanagan Cemetery (CR 22, south of White Oak & Berea), Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6] 
    Person ID I29167  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2007 

    Father Jonathan COBURN, Jr. 
    Mother Catherine ___ 
    Family ID F11105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elias LOWTHER,   b. 16 Sep 1776, West Milford, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Dec 1845, Staunton, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)  [1, 3, 5] 
    Married 3 May 1804  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    • Minnie Kendall Lowther, in "Ritchie County in History and Romance," p. 249, indicates that Elias Lowther and Rebecca Coburn were married in about 1797, which would conform to the birth dates of their older children. But "Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894," p. 17, shows their marriage date as May 3 1804 in chronological sequence with other marriages.
    Children 
     1. Sophia Margaret "Peggy" LOWTHER,   b. 18 May 1798,   d. IN YOUTH, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Sarah Dark "Sally" LOWTHER,   b. 26 Sep 1800
    +3. William Dark LOWTHER,   b. 23 Nov 1802, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Mar 1850, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 47 years)
    +4. Elizabeth LOWTHER,   b. 1 Dec 1806
    +5. Jesse Madison LOWTHER,   b. May 1809,   d. 15 Nov 1855, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years)
    +6. Dorinda LOWTHER,   b. 15 Jun 1814,   d. 1896  (Age 81 years)
     7. Decatur LOWTHER,   b. 1 Mar 1817,   d. Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Mary "Polly" LOWTHER,   b. 20 Sep 1818, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. Pritchard Cemetery, Slab Creek, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +9. Jonathan Coburn LOWTHER,   b. 8 Mar 1819, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1916  (Age 97 years)
    Family ID F11106  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S293] History of Ritchie County, Minnie Kendall Lowther, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 17.

    2. [S145] The Families of Jesse Lowther and His Son Granville, with Their Descendants and Antecedents in America, Jane Lowther Bolster, (Daamen, Inc. (1982)), p. 23.

    3. [S1823] The Descendants of Robert Lowther, Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/lowther.htm).

    4. [S340] The Gibson and Related Families, Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991), p. 432.

    5. [S283] Ritchie County in History and Romance, Minnie Kendall Lowther, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 249.

    6. [S123] Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    7. [S1792] Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985)).

    8. [S340] The Gibson and Related Families, Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991), p. 401.