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Rebecca Jane Gaines

8 May 1827–28 July 1897 (Age 70)
Odds, Johnson, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of Rebecca Jane

When Rebecca Jane Gaines was born on 8 May 1827, in Odds, Johnson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Noble Gaines, was 48 and her mother, Elizabeth DeLong, was 21. She married Thomas Whitt Spears on 26 July 1847, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Johnson, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 28 July 1897, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Auxier, Floyd, Kentucky, United States.

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Spouse and Children

Parents and Siblings

Thomas Whitt Spears

1829–1880

Rebecca Jane Gaines

1827–1897

Marriage: 26 July 1847

Amos Spears

1846–1927

John Walker Spears

1848–1923

Amos A. Spears

1849–1926

James H Spears

1850–

Serina F. Spears

1851–

Lafayette Spears

1853–

Elizabeth Jane Spears

1854–

Hiram Harrison Spears

1856–1912

Mary Martha Spears

1858–1901

David Marion Spears

1861–1900

Garnea F Spears

1861–

Corilda Jane Spears

1863–1887

Emily " Sis" Spears

1864–

Kenis Pritchett Spears

1866–1927

Emaline "Emma" Spears

1869–1955

Willie Spears

1870–1872

Spouse and Children

Thomas Whitt Spears

Male1829–1880Male

Rebecca Jane Gaines

Female1827–1897Female

Children

(16)

Male1846–1927Male

Male1848–1923Male

Male1849–1926Male

Male1850–Male

Female1851–Female

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Parents and Siblings

Noble Gaines

Male1779–1834Male

Elizabeth DeLong

Female1806–1852Female

Siblings

(1)

Rebecca Jane Gaines

Female1827–1897Female

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 3

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.

1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
Age 3

The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.

1846
Age 19

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Gaines

Rebecca

Jane

1 English (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious person, from a reduced form of Old French engaine ‘ingenuity’, ‘trickery’ (Latin ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a trap.2 This surname has also assimilated reduced variants of Welsh Gurganus .

Possible Related Names

Gurganus

Gaynes

Gain

Sources (17)

Rebecca J Spears in household of Thomas M Spears, "United States Census, 1850"
Rebecca J Spears in household of Thomas W Spears, "United States Census, 1860"
Rebecca J Spears in household of Thomas W Spears, "United States Census, 1870"

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