Rebecca Ellis was born around 1767 in Virginia or Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Mordicai N. Ellis and Mary Hutton. Rebecca married James Riley Cotter Jr. in 1788 in Greene County, Tennessee where her family had come to establish the New Hope Monthly Meeting. Rebecca and James had fifteen children, most eventually settling in Indiana and Missouri. Rebecca died in 1858 and was buried at Quaker Knob Cemetery, Rheatown, Greene County, Tennessee.
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1850 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M432. 1850 Census: Division 9, Greene, TN; Roll: M432_880; pp. 187; Image: 376[1]; Birth: abt 1767 VA.
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 30 Oct 2014, Rebecca Cotter, Greene county, part of, Greene, TN: citing family 727, NARA microfilm publication M432.
Buried
1858
Rheatown, Greene, Tennessee, United States.
FSFTID 2W49-3H5.
National ID
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 1850 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com.
↑ There's conflict over which Virginia Rebecca was born in. It could be the American colony ... or Ireland in "Cavan County, Ulster." But this doesn't explain why her father is said to have been born in PA. More info needed ...| (see note about Ireland: 7 June 2013 by Audrey Comer. familysearch.org ID no. 2W49-3H5)
↑ findagrave says her father is Mordecai Ellis, a Quaker originally from PA. But this seems wrong. Mordecai's brother Enos had a daughter with this name, but they are not associated with the Quakers in Greene. Mordecai is also fairly well documented. That said, some of Mordecai's relatives did accompany him to Greene.
↑ TN was not a state until 01 Jul 1796 (before her alleged date of marriage). So it's possible she was married in NC, since "Greene Co. was formed in 1783 from the original Washington County, North Carolina." (See Wikipedia: Greene County, Tennessee)
Most of the time, no source is given for her, or her allegedly Irish husband. There is an Irish passenger named James Cotter (b.1783), who arrived in Philadelphia in 1821, at the age of 28 years old. ... which is practically too late. See source image:
"United States Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874", index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 30 Oct 2014), James Cotter, 1821.
↑ living with Thomas Rupel, age 25, African American
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63815526/rebecca-cotter: accessed 10 March 2023), memorial page for Rebecca Ellis Cotter (1767–1858), Find a Grave Memorial ID 63815526, citing Quaker Knob Cemetery, Rheatown, Greene County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Linda J. DOILE Morris (contributor 47181309).
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