Rebecca K Buchanan

Brief Life History of Rebecca K

When Rebecca K Buchanan was born on 13 January 1845, in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Buchanan, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Griffith, was 29. She married Dr. George Robert Bartholomew Sr, MD on 4 February 1866, in Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. She died on 1 April 1934, in Glenolden, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dr. George Robert Bartholomew Sr, MD
1831–1885
Rebecca K Buchanan
1845–1934
Marriage: 4 February 1866
Lydia Cleaver Bartholomew
1866–1936
Reba Emily Bartholomew
1878–1960
Lin Wynne Bartholomew
1880–1964
Harry Buchanan Bartholomew
1882–1885

Sources (22)

  • Rebecca K Bartholomew in household of Morris E Bartholomew, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Rebecca K. Buchanan - Government record: Census record: birth: about 1845; Pennsylvania, United States
  • Rebecca Buchanan Bartholomew, "Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950"

World Events (8)

1846

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

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.

Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .

History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.

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

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