Rachel (Combs) Acord (abt. 1771 - abt. 1859)

Born about 1 Jan 1771 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Acord — married 12 Aug 1788 in Shenandoah, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died about Aug 1859 at about age 88 in Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa, United States

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DNA

Paternal and Maternal relationships have been confirmed.

Autosomal DNA triangulated between Burgess-4852 (direct male descendant of William Burgess), R.B. (related through Jack Acord's daughter Nicati) and Deana (Weeks) Anderson Weeks-494 descendant of Combs-92 & Spangler-129 through son Combs-332 on Chromosome 4 from position 35067008 - 40453282 for approx. 8cM. Please refer to Help:DNA_Confirmation and Help:Triangulation for more information.

Biography

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Name

Name: Rachel /Combs/

Source: #S2730

Page: Ancestry Family Trees

Data:

Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=1034466&pid=-1012723924

Note: #N1572

Sources

Source S2730

Title: Public Member Trees

Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.;

Repository: #R1

NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 July 2018), memorial page for Rachael Combs Acord (1 Jan 1771–Aug 1859), Find A Grave Memorial no. 7256071, citing Acord Cemetery, Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa, USA ; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400) .

• Robert Watts Handy, Civil Bend: Legend of Reality (Wilmington, DE: Authors Choice Press, 2000). Rec. Date: Mar 1, 2015. p. 10 -11 (excerpted below):

'"By early spring 1840 more Euro-American pioneers had arrived to settle Minnesota Territory which two years later would become Iowa Territory (present Fremont County, Iowa). Among them were John and Cynthia Acord, son John, age one, and John's grandmother Rachel Combs Acord, age sixty-nine years. Rachel, born 1 January 1768 was the daughter of Job and Deborah Combs of Powels Fort Valley, Shenandoah County, Virginia. She had been reared with brothers Zur Job, John, and sisters Lacey and Deborah. On 12 August 1788 she married John Eckert Acord who was the son of a Pennsylvania Dutch family.....In 1829, the Acord family moved to Decatur Township, Lawrence County, Ohio where John died in 1835. His widow resided with her sons....in Delaware County, Indiana....A year later, Jacob and Cynthia Acord, with infant John and grandmother Rachel, left Indiana to farm in Osage County, Missouri....on the last day of March 1840 (the seekers arrived ) (two miles north of present day Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa...At age 85 years Grandmother Rachel died in 1856. Her granson Jacob met the same fate while farming on 18 November of the same year. He was thirty-four years old. Rachel and Jacob were among the first to be buried in the close by Acord Cemetery named in the family's honor."

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Combs-402 created through the import of Weeks_Malcolm_James_Wonderly F.ged on Dec 9, 2011 by Deana Anderson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Deana and others.

• WikiTree profile Acord-98 created through the import of Weeks_Malcolm_James_Wonderly F.ged on Dec 9, 2011 by Deana Anderson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Deana and others.

• This person was created through the import of Conley - Dye,_2010-11-16.ged on 24 May 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.

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