Rebecca Erwin (abt. 1810 - aft. 1860)

Born about 1810 in North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died after 1860 after about age 50 in Wright County, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Rebecca Erwin was born about 1810 in North Carolina, USA.^[1][2][3] Her parents are unknown.

She married Bailey Connolly, son of Cyrus Payne Connolly and Mary Elizabeth Callicott, about 8 November 1832 in Burke County, North Carolina.^[4] Rebecca and Bailey had seven known children:

1. Elizabeth Connolly, b. about 1834
2. James C. Connolly, b. about 1837
3. Margaret A Connolly, b. 1839
4. Caleb C. Connolly, b. about 1840
5. William M. Connolly, b. about 1844
6. Patsy C. Connolly, b. about 1846
7. Mary C. Connolly, b. about 1851

The family lived at Yancey County, North Carolina in 1840. They had a female slave, between ages 10 to 23, also living with them.^[5] By 1850, they lived in Cherokee County,^[1] where they owned one male slave, 20 years old, probably to help work the farm.^[6]

Sometime between 1851 and 1856, they left North Carolina and migrated to Missouri. The group included Bailey's parents and possibly some of his siblings.^[7] The family is found on a farm in the 1860 census in Hartville, Wright County, Missouri, where they reported owning real estate valued at $600 and personal estate of $500.^[2]

She and Bailey probably both died in Wright County before 1870.^[8] Neither of them have been found after the 1860 census.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} 1850 U.S. Census, Cherokee County, NC, population schedule (digital image), accessed 3 Jul 2011 at FamilySearch.org; citing National Archives micropublication M432, roll 625; E.D. not stated, stamped page 53, dw.#694, fam.#694, household of Baily Connelly; Rebecca Connelly, age 40, born NCarolina.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 1860 U.S. Census, Wright County, MO, population schedule (digital image), accessed 3 Jul 2011; Hartville P.O., page 22, dw.#140, fam.#137, household of Baily Conolly; Rebecca Conolly, age 49, born NC.
3. ↑ Missouri State Archives, "Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1969," online images, accessed 23 Aug 2020; Margrett Mingus, cert.#14009, died 06 Apr 1927, Webster Co., Finley Twp., names parents as Bailey Conley (born NC) and Margrett Ervin (born NC)
4. ↑ Burke County, NC, marriage bond (image), 08 Nov 1832, Bailey Connelly and Rebecca Erwin, Volume A C (pages unnumbered, image 301 of 1590); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, Wake, NC, USA; viewed at Ancestry.com on 01 Jan 2017, North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011; bond was witnessed by J. Erwin, Deputy Clerk
5. ↑ 1840 U.S. Census, Yancey County, NC, population schedule (digital image), accessed 01 Jan 2017; page 4 (handwritten), images 6-7 of 71, line 29, household of Baley Connelly
6. ↑ 1850 U.S. Census, Cherokee County, NC, Slave Schedule (digital image), page unnumbered, following page with handwritten #421, image 3 of 5, accessed 10 Feb 2018 at FamilySearch; slave owner Bailey Connelly, 1 slave, age 20, male, black.
7. ↑ Their youngest child was born ca 1851 in NC, Cyrus died 1856 in MO.
8. ↑ Unknown author, Ancestors of Fay George Smith and Amy Jewel Anderson, unsourced, limited distribution, 27 pages plus pedigree charts, photocopy mailed ca 1990s to Joyce Rivette by Melissa Fay Jones; p.32.