Rebecca Covell Martin

Female1806–26 February 1892

Brief Life History of Rebecca Covell

When Rebecca Covell Martin was born in 1806, in Rhode Island, United States, her father, William Brown Martin, was 29 and her mother, Sally Thurber, was 31. She married James Humphrey about 1827, in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 26 February 1892, in her hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Humphrey
1803–1873
Rebecca Covell Martin
1806–1892
Marriage: about 1827
Sylvanus Humphreys
1831–1831
Sarah Louise Humphreys
1832–1897
William Humphreys
1834–1834
Elizabeth Wanton Humphreys
1836–1851
Anna Rebecca Humphreys
1837–1854
Amey Richmond Humphreys
1840–1908
Henry Albert Humphreys
1842–1869

Sources (16)

  • Rebecca C Humphrey in household of James Humphrey, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Rebecca Covell Humphreys, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
  • Rebecca Humphreys in entry for Elizabeth Wanton Humphreys, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1827East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  • Children (7)

    +2 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (5)

    World Events (8)

    1808

    Age 2

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1811 · USS Revenge

    Age 5

    On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 24

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    Name Meaning

    English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.

    English: variant of Marton .

    Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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