Rebecca Brewster (1801 - 1863)

Born 12 Feb 1801 in Ohio, United States

Wife of Isaac Fallis — married 17 May 1838 in Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Aug 1863 at age 62 in Greene County, Ohio, United States

Rebecca Brewster's gravestone at the Fallis Pioneer Cemetery in Sugar Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, gives her death date as 2 August 1862 at the age of 62 years 5 months and 18 days. This calculates to a birth date of 2 Feb 1801,^[1] which agrees with census data from 1850 and 1860. The censuses state that she was born in Ohio.^[2][3] There was a Samuel Brewster who was an early settler of Sugar Creek about 1803.^[4]

Isaac Fallis and Rebecca Brooster were married May 17, 1838, recorded in Montgomery County Ohio, which is next to Greene County. ^[5][6] Isaac was previously married to Mercy who died in 1834.^[1] Isaac was 20 years her senior.^[2]

The couple resided in Sugar Creek Township, Greene, Ohio, United States, along with children Martha J Fallis, 9, Ruth A Fallis, 7, and Charlotte Fallis 5, in 1850.^[2] Isaac was a laborer.^[2]

Isaac died between the 1850 and 1860 Censuses. Rebecca (spelled Fallace), age 59, continued to live at Sugar Creek township with Martha Jane age 19, Ruth age 16, and Charlotte age 15,^[3] until her death three years later.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Photo of Gravestone at Fallis Pioneer Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQ3-RRK : 9 November 2014), Isaac Fallis, Sugar Creek, Greene, Ohio, United States; citing family 1326, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-25266-13941-32?cc=1473181 : 8 April 2016), Ohio > Greene > Sugar Creek Township > image 21 of 30; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ Broadstone, Michael A. History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions. Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, 1918. p. 247
5. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18084-59656-11?cc=1614804 : 15 July 2014), Montgomery > Marriage records 1838-1844 vol A2 > image 57 of 212; county courthouses, Ohio.
6. ↑ Brien, Lindsay M. (Lindsay Metcalfe) comp. Montgomery County, Ohio, marriages, 1803-1851 [from the] Montgomery County Common Pleas record of marriage certificates. Volume III. Typescript (carbon copy). Previous edition published under title: Register of marriage certificates ... and published as Miami Valley records, v. 3 (Bk. A, July 20, 1803-September 25,1827 -- Bk. B, September 25, 1827-December 27, 1837 -- Bk. A2. January 1838-February 29, 1844 -- Bk. B2. February 14, 1844-July 15, 1851). Brewster p. 26