Rebecca Terrell (Patterson) Williams (1825 - 1902)

Born 3 Apr 1825 in Somerset, Ohio, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Caleb A. Williams — married 7 Mar 1844 in Chesterfield, Athens County, Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 6 May 1902 at age 77 in LaGrande, Union County, Oregon, USA

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Biography

Rebecca Terrel Patterson was born on April 3, 1825 in Sommerset, Ohio.^[1]

Rebecca married Caleb A. Williams in 1844 in Chesterfield, Ohio.^[1] The couple had at least three children, including Oliver W. Williams (a business man and "well known and prominent citizen" in LaGrande as of 1902), Elias C. Williams (of McConnelsville, Ohio as of 1902), and daughter Sarah C. (Williams) Worstell (who predeceased her mother).^[1]

The couple were members of the Quaker faith, and Rebecca was a "recommended minister of the Society of Friends to the Indiana Yearly Meeting."^[1] Rebecca is also said to have been widely read, a "woman of fine literary taste," and to have been a published poet.^[1]

Rebecca passed away in 1902 and is buried with Caleb in Grandview Cemetery in LaGrande, Oregon.^[1],^[2]

• Fact: Residence (1880) La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV states that Rebecca Williams (formerly Patterson) is disowned because she married contrary to discipline (Chesterfield MM).
• Fact: Christening , , Ohio, USA
• Fact: Burial Grandview Cemetery, La Grande, Union Co., Oregon, USA

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Rebecca Terrell (Patterson) Williams Obituary. LeGrande Observer, LeGrande, 01 May 1902, page 1.
2. ↑ Caleb A. Williams and Rebecca T. Williams Grave Marker, Grandview Cemetery, La Grande, Union County, Oregon, USA, Plot: Blk 139, lot 4, space 2. Photograph available at Find a Grave Memorial #43846741, at https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=43846741&PIpi=23808692.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 March 2019, 00:17), entry for Rebecca Terrel Patterson(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZDC-5D9); contributed by various users.
• 1850 USFC, Marion, Morgan County, Ohio, USA. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11601-134436-40?cc=1401638 (listing Elias and Oliver)

• 1870 USFC, Ohio, USA https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6LH-CH7 (listing Sarah)

• Marriage Record of Caleb Williams and Rebecca T. Patterson, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZYM-ZV5

US Federal Census 1860 • Marion, Morgan, Ohio, USA US Federal Census 1870 • Chesterfield, Morgan, Ohio, United States US Federal Census 1900 • La Grande, Union, Oregon, USA

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43846748/will

Ohio, County Marriages, 1774-1993; Film Number 000311599

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994; Frankford Monthly Meeting page 135