Brief Life History of Rebecca Ruth
When Rebecca Ruth Meredith was born on 22 October 1806, in Petersburg, Kent, Delaware, United States, her father, Job Meredith IV, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Betty Hatfield, was 37. She married Thomas Emory Frazier Sr on 22 December 1825, in Tent, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in North Murderkill Hundred, Kent, Delaware, United States in 1850 and South Murderkill Hundred, Kent, Delaware, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 April 1893, at the age of 86, and was buried in Cow Marsh Baptist Church Cemetery, Sandtown, Kent, Delaware, United States.
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- Rebecca Faurice, "United States Census, 1850"
- Rebecca Ruth Meridith Frazier, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rebecca Franklin in entry for James Frasher, "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1828
Historical Boundaries 1828: Kent, Delaware, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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
Welsh: from the personal name Meredydd (Old Welsh Morgetiud, Middle Welsh Maredudd, from a possible British Celtic ethnic name of the type Morgetes + iǖth ‘lord’). Compare Beddow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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