When Rebecca Sumner was born on 9 September 1789, in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Bowater Sumner, was 40 and her mother, Rebecca Burris, was 29. She married Joshua Haworth Wright on 13 June 1809, in Fall Creek MM, Highland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died after 1850, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 62.