When Rebecca Folger Crapo was born on March 26, 1833, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, her father, Henry, was 28, and her mother, Mary, was 27. She married William Clark Durant on November 29, 1855, in her hometown. They had two children during their marriage. She died on February 8, 1924, in Flint, Michigan, at the age of 90, and was buried in Manhattan, New York.
Sources
Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 (Lehi, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018), Ancestry.com, New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Record for Rebecca Folger Crapo.http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61401&h=511182&indiv=try.
Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_309; Page: 346B; Image: 275. Record for Rebecca T Crapo.http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8054&h=10013960&indiv=try.
1850 United States Federal Census
Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Ancestry.com, New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911–1915.Record for William C Durant and Rebecca F Crapo married 29 Nov 1855 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2511&h=16775226&indiv=try.
Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915
Ancestry.com, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Ancestry.com, Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan; Death Records. Record for Rebecca C Durant.http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60872&h=2093668&indiv=try.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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