Rachel King (1797 - 1868)

Born 29 Sep 1797 in Kentucky, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Zadok Casey — married 31 Aug 1815 in Smith County, Tennessee, USA [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1868 at age 70 in Jefferson County, Illinois, USA

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Biography

Rachael King was born in Kentucky to Peter King an Mary Jane Edwards.^[1][2] She had a twin sister, Martha.^[3]

Her husband, Zadok Casey, who would rise to lofty political positions, was virtually illiterate when they married. She taught him to read and write.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85B-CJ6 : 12 April 2016), Rachael Casey in household of Zadock Casey, Jefferson county, Jefferson, Illinois, United States; citing family 1203, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVV8-VP1M : accessed 15 February 2015), Rachel King Casey, 1868; Burial, Mount Vernon, Jefferson, Illinois, United States of America, Old Union Cemetery; citing record ID 10756543, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
3. ↑ Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters, Pension application of Peter King W7981 Jane King f27NC, transcribed by Will Graves 1/7/08: rev'd 4/20/16 (http://revwarapps.org/w7981.pdf).
4. ↑ Perrin, W. Henry. (1883). History of Jefferson County, Illinois. Chicago: Globe Pub. Co., Historical Publishers, https://archive.org/details/historyofjeffers00perr

Notes

Possible answer: to her origins: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~olson/peter2.htm