Rachel Fetters

Brief Life History of Rachel

When Rachel Fetters was born on 17 February 1853, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John A. Fetters, was 41 and her mother, Catharine Silers Dibert, was 22. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Andrew Curtin Heffner. She lived in West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. She died on 7 January 1912, in Earlston, West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Everett Cemetery, Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Curtin Heffner
1863–1939
Rachel Fetters
1853–1912
Mary C. Heffner
1881–1967
John Henry Heffner
1883–1969
Annie Hester Heffner
1885–1956
Margaret "Maggie" L Heffner
1887–1966
William Franklin Heffner
1891–1967

Sources (17)

  • Rachel Hefner in household of Andrew Hefner, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Rachael Fetters Heffner, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
  • Rachel Fetters Heffner, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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

English: nickname for a cheat, from Middle English, Anglo-French faitour ‘imposter, cheat’, a specialized sense of Old French faitor ‘doer, maker’.

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

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