Rebecca Smith (1807-1869)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Joel Steeves William F. Steeves+ Jane Steeves Rebecca Smith 1 Born: 1807 1 Marriage: Joel Steeves Died: 28 Oct 1869 aged 62 2 Buried: Hillsborough, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 2   Burial Notes: Rebecca Smith Steeves was buried in Gray's Island Cemetery. Inscription: Joel Steeves died March 6, 1871 aged 73 years Mary Smith his wife died July 10, 1836 aged 34 years Rebecca Smith died Oct 28, 1869 aged 61 years   Noted events in her life were: • Alt. Death, 18 Oct 1869. 1 Rebecca married Joel Steeves, son of John Steeves and Anna Margretha Lutz. (Joel Steeves was born on 11 Apr 1798,1 died on 6 Mar 1871 1 2 and was buried in Hillsborough, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 2.)

1 Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. 201; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006; Sources listed in Genealogies (First Family): MC80/590 Esther C. Wright's The Steeves Descendants, pages 68 to 276: see also C80/1790 Ken Kanner's Early families revisited, page 284.

2 M. Helena Lewis, New Brunswick Cemeteries Albert County, digital images (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mhlewis/new_brunswick_cemeteries.htm : accessed 18 Mar 2009), Gravestone for Joel, Mary and Rebecca Steeves.