When Rachel Means was born about 1765, in Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Means, was 40 and her mother, Nancy Simonton, was 39. She married Joseph Means after 1783, in Fairforest Creek Settlement, Union, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in Fairforest Creek Settlement, Union, South Carolina, United States.
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