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Rebecca MCENTIRE[1, 2, 3]

Female 1813 - 1864  (50 years)


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  • Name Rebecca MCENTIRE 
    Born 13 Dec 1813  Burke County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4
    Gender Female 
    Will 12 Jan 1824  Burke County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Thomas Hemphill bequeathed to "my grand daughter Rebeckah McEntire one negro child named Rachel."
    Census 1860  Old Fort, McDowell, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Died 22 Aug 1864  Burke County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4
    • Died of typhoid, along with five other family members.
    Buried Aft 22 Aug 1864  Old Ebenezer Cemetery/Old Siloam Cemetery, Old Fort, Mcdowell, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 
    • Name:
      Rebecca McEntire -> Murray County Heritage
      Rebeckah McEntire -> Captain Thomas Hemphill's will

      Connection to parents:
      *Thomas Y. H. McEntire and Martha Hemphill are named as her parents in Murray County Heritage.
      *She is named as a granddaughter in Captain Thomas Hemphill's will.
    Person ID I33  Kendrick-Hemphill
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2012 

    Father Thomas Young Hemphill MCENTIRE,   b. Jan 1772, , County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1813, Old Fort, Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Martha HEMPHILL,   b. 14 Mar 1774, near Old Fort, Rowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Nov 1835, Old Fort, Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 1794 
    Family ID F50  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas HEMPHILL,   b. 1 Apr 1807, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jul 1864  (Age 57 years) 
    Children 
     1. Sarah HEMPHILL,   b. Abt 1841, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Martha HEMPHILL,   b. Abt 1843, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Clarissa Jane HEMPHILL,   b. 24 Sep 1844, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Sep 1914  (Age 69 years)
     4. Thomas HEMPHILL,   b. Abt 1847
     5. John Whitfield HEMPHILL,   b. 13 Feb 1848, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1915, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     6. Joseph George HEMPHILL,   b. 1 Jun 1850,   d. 11 Sep 1864  (Age 14 years)
     7. Mary R. HEMPHILL,   b. 6 Feb 1852,   d. 15 Aug 1864  (Age 12 years)
     8. Andrew HEMPHILL,   b. Abt 1854, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Rebecca Elizabeth HEMPHILL,   b. 1 Apr 1855, , , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1924  (Age 69 years)
     10. Columbus P. HEMPHILL,   b. 15 Aug 1857,   d. 25 Aug 1864  (Age 7 years)
     11. Samuel D. P. HEMPHILL,   b. 15 Sep 1859,   d. 21 Aug 1864  (Age 4 years)
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2015 
    Family ID F556  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S387] Hemphills in North Carolina*, 29 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S263] Murray County Heritage, 663-666 (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S45] Burke County, NC Original Wills 1790-1905, Thomas Hemphill, 1824; (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S192] Old Ebenezer Cemetery (aka Old Siloam Cemetery), Rebecca Hemphill monumental inscription, personally photographed by Tonia Kendrick, (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S229] 1860 United States Federal Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: , McDowell, North Carolina; Roll: M653_904; Page: 176; Image: 353. (Reliability: 3).
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=41376011