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Wharton Rector (1775 - 1842)

Wharton Rector
Born in Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at age 67 in Arkansasmap
Profile last modified | Created 27 Jan 2012
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Biography

Wharton Rector was born January 4, 1775, in Rectorown, Fauquire County, Virginia, the son of Frederick Rector and Elizabeth Conner. He married Mary Margaret Vance in 1791 and they had at least five children. Wharton died February 24, 1842 in Arkansas.[1]


Children of Wharton and Mary Rector:

  • Wharton Rector 1800-1842
  • Elias Rector 1802-1878
  • William Vance Rector
  • Enoch Rector
  • Harriet Amanda Rector 1810-1834; m. Robert William Wells, Jr.

Research Notes

This Wharton Rector (1775-1842), his father, brothers and their descendants are well-known in Arkansas history. The Rector and allied Sevier, Johnson, and Conway families were known as "The Dynasty" in the Arkansas' territorial days and its early statehood. inia and is thought to have died 24 Feb 1842 at Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas. He was married to Mary Margaret Vance in 1791. His brothers were Elias Rector (1786-1822); William Conner (1773-1826); Thomas Conner (1783-1826); and Stephen.

Son: William Vance Rector was elected Auditor of the State by the Legislature in 1821.

Son: Major Wharton Rector, prominent in the history of Arkansas.

Sources have noted that when Harriet Amanda Rector Wells, daughter of Mary and Wharton, died in 1834, Wharton was living in Arkansas and Mary in Missouri. Independent of this data, an inference could be made that at some point Wharton and Mary separated/divorced and each remarried.

Sources

  1. Entered by Marie Mills, Jan 27, 2012
  • Shinn, Josiah Hazen. Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas. United States, Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company, 1908. pp. 392-
  • Elias Rector (1802–1878). Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Central Arkansas Library System. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elias-rector-4036/
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Mary Vance, Virginia 1796. Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
  • Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America The Descendants of John Fishback, The Emigrant..." North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000. Ancestry.com

Sources included when profile was created:

  • From THE RECTOR FAMILY RECORDS copy from History of Missouri by David Marsh.
  • From HISTORY OF ARKANSAS BIOGRAPHICAL AND PICTORIAL Wharton Rector was the father of Major Wharton Rector who was prominent in the history of Arkansas.
  • Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch, Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 4, Volume 4, Lulu.com, 2014, page 1946.
  • http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4036




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Rector-1448 and Rector-195 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicates, however Rector-195 is attached to the wrong wife and spelling of his name is incorrect.

Wharton Rector, son of Frederick and Mary (Connor) Rector, married Mary Margaret Vance. His son, Elias Rector (1802-1878) married Catherine Jemima DuVal (1818-1891)

posted by Frances Carner

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