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- BIOGRAPHY:
1. Major autobiography with lots of references to Mangums, Richeys, and Adairs and their history by James Richey [see his notes for transcription] speaks of his siblings:
a. "The names of my brothers and sisters are (as) follows: Benjamin, Joseph 2, Rebecca, 3, Emily Melissa 4, John G. 5, Martha Ann and Eliza Jane 5, for they were both born at one birth, William B, 7, Robert 8, and I myself being the first born."
b. "Rebecca Sarah- Born Pickens co, Alabama, December 7, 1928 [sic- 1828]; Died: Nauvoo, Illinois, 1845."
c. "I lived in the State of Alabama until I was about 10 years old I then went with my fathers family to the State of Mississippi Berculee Co."
d. "i took a steamer to the mouth of the ohio river an from their for east port on tenisee river an from their to ittenambe county whare i had left my horse an saddle i viseted here for sometime an preached to my friends an then returned home to my fathers house i continued to travel an preach for about one yeare when wee sold our possessions an mooved to the city of nauvoo a short time after wee arrived their i went in company with some others to senuk island for wood an when i retuer ed i found that my oaldest sister Rebecca had sickened an died of the lung fever this was a heavy blow an one that i did not get over for a long time..."
DEATH:
1. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File: Also included is the following death and burial information:
A. Nauvoo Sexton Records of Burials, 1839-1846: Rebecca Richey, d. 16 Apr 1845 of Lung Fever.
B. Nauvoo Death and Burials, p. 28: Rebecca Richey, 16 Apr 1845, source: E1.
C. Inventory of Markers and Graves, Etc., Old Nauvoo Burial Ground, 780 East 2300 North Sonora Township: Rebecca Sarah Richey, dau. of William Richey and Margaret Ann Adair, d. 16 Apr 1845, age 16, b. 7 Dec 1828.
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