Brief Life History of Rebecca Catherine
Rebecca Catherine Fox was born on 12 June 1806, in Pennsylvania, United States. She married Daniel Widel about 1830, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Monmouth, Jackson, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Richland Township, Sac, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died on 18 March 1881, in Odebolt, Sac, Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Odebolt, Sac, Iowa, United States.
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- Rabecca Widell in household of S E Peck, "United States Census, 1880"
- Rebecca Widel, "Find A Grave Index"
- R Fox in entry for Alfred H Widel, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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