Born in Upper Merion Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Yocum
and Elizabeth (Dehaven) Yocum
Sister of
Andrew Yocum, Eleanor Yocum, Jonas Yocum, Peter Yocum, Peter Yocum [half], Elizabeth Yocum, Isaac Jesse (Yokum) Yokom, John Frederick Yocum and Mary Yocum
Wife of
Ambrose Emery
— married
about 1770 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Died
at about age 88
in Jefferson, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States
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| Created 2 Nov 2010
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Biography
Rebecca Yocum, the daughter of John Yocum and Elizabeth Dehaven was born about 1746 in Pennsylvania and died in 1843 in Jefferson, Greene, Pennsylvania, USA. She married, as his second wife, Ambrose Emery, son of James and Ruth (Watson) Emery.[1] For more information on this individual see the biography of Ambrose Emery.
Famous Connections
Thomas Edison → Samuel Edison (his father) → Samuel Edison (his father) → Elizabeth Yokom (his wife) → Isaac Yokum (her father) → Rebecca Yocum (his sister)
Sources
- ↑ Rufus Emery, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890, (Emery Cleaves, Salem Mass., 1890) pg. 27 (https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco1890emer)
- July/2016. Kay Vaughn-Adams. (Ancestors & descendants of James Franklin Emery...by Ann Emery Hunter)
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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. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~1.56%
Kay (Vaughn) Adams
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Lisa Houser :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lisadonne40
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Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen
Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen
Yocum-557 and Yocum-138 appear to represent the same person because: Same spouse and data
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