When Rebecca Burdett Clifton was born on 15 December 1772, in Stafford, Virginia, United States, her father, Burdette Clifton, was 36 and her mother, Rebecca Kenner, was 34. She married Richard Pile Jr on 15 January 1792, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 30 November 1858, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Eastern Cemetery, Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of the very numerous places called Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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