When Rebecca Louise Wells was born from 1800 to 1810, in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States, her father, Willoughby Wells, was 65 and her mother, Mary Hackney, was 42. She married Elihu Hodge on 6 June 1824, in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1836, at the age of 36, and was buried in Manning Cemetery, Manning, Clarendon, South Carolina, United States.