Rebecca (Edgerton) Deweese

 

MEMBER DETAILS

Name

Rebecca (Edgerton) Deweese

Born

09/10/1823

Place of Birth

Somerset MM

Died

08/07/1880

Place of Death

Pennsville MM

Place of Burial

Hopewell FBG

Record Last Modified

09/28/2011

FAMILY

Father

James Edgerton Jr. 1788-1828

Mother

Anna (Hall) Edgerton Conrow 1795-1876

Husband

Jesse Deweese 1847-1880

Married

— 10/27/1847 Somerset FMH

Child

Thomas Dewees 1848-1929

Child

James E. Dewees 1850-

Rebecca Deweese was a leading women's minister in Ohio YM in the middle third of the 1800s.
 
Sources: EAQG 4:195, 573, 576, 699, 1053-1054

OTHER INFORMATION

Wilburite

MEMBERSHIP

Somerset Monthly Meeting 1823-1851

Pennsville Monthly Meeting 1851-1880

OFFICES

Pennsville MM Women's Clerk 1853-1855

Pennsville QM Women's Assistant Clerk 1855-1855

Pennsville MM Women's Clerk 1858-1859

Pennsville QM Women's Clerk 1862-1868

Pennsville MM Minister 1866-1880

Pennsville MM Women's Clerk 1867-1868

Ohio YM Women's Assistant Clerk 1875-1879

Pennsville QM Women's Clerk 1876-1879

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