Rebecca's parents haven't yet been identified nor have those of her husband, John McFall. Several Gaddis families were in the neighborhood in southern Indiana when she lived there, folks who had moved up from Kentucky or west from Pennsylvania. There is a marriage record in Scott County, IN that Rebecca and John married May 15, 1841. John would have been perhaps 10 years older, or more, and may have been married before.
Rebecca and John had two children before she died at age 21 when her youngest baby, our grandma Mary Jane, was 1 month old. Two years later, John married Elizabeth Kinney. The 1850 census taker reported John and Elizabeth living together, but by the 1860 census, they were not. He usually stated for the census that he was born in Eastern Canada, as were his parents, but once his birthplace is shown as VA. In the 1850 census, age is shown as 34 but in the 1860 census, it is shown as 54. The Scott County Journal reported his death in 1880.
My sister found Rebecca's gravestone a few years ago in New Frankfort, Indiana.
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Working on Ancestry.com I find that the Sparks family genealogy has the history a bit differently. It shows Rebecca as dying in 1845, with three children, the last born in 1845 named Margaret. Looks like I have some more research to do. Judith Lynch Lamare
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