Rebecca Mariah Hewitt

Rebecca Mariah Hewitt; b 22 Nov 1840 Fountain Co. IN

 Birth: 22 Nov 1840 - Davis Twp, Fountain Co., Indiana

          Death: 13 Jun 1915 - Niangua, Webster, MO

         Burial: 15 Jun 1915 - Webb City Cem, Jasper, MO

Parents

         Father: Richard Hewitt Jr. (1794-1853)

         Mother: Jarusha J. Parker (1800-1862)

Spouses and Children

1. *John Lockwood Adams (21 May 1838 - 14 Aug 1864)
       Marriage: 29 May 1858 - Westmoreland, Pottawatomie, KS
       Children:
                1. Florinda Jane Adams (4 Feb 1861 - 19 Aug 1954)
                2. Agnes Letty Adams (4 Jun 1863 - 3 Nov 1946)

2. Enoch Elijah Bradley (12 Feb 1843 - 3 Apr 1923)
       Marriage: 5 Jul 1865 - Ft Kearney, Kearney, NE
       Children:
                1. Richard Nelson Bradley (30 May 1867 - 13 Feb 1922)
                2. Kate Belle Bradley (21 Jun 1871 - 3 Apr 1941)
                3. Rebecca Aurilla Bradley (29 Oct 1873 - 21 Jun 1949)

----------------------------------------------------------------- John Lockwood Adams

PICTURES: Sent by Connie F. Isaacks Sept 2000

Early pictures of Rebecca and John Adams-

1-)Probably painted about when they married May 30, 1858.These

pictures were hung in big frames in Connie Fry's parents homes. They

were on cardboard--evidently still are. Connie Fry has them in her

posession.

2-)Rebecca looks about 70-- possibly taken about the time she was

finishing up her life story in her Journal....1910.

3-) Rebecca looks about 75--possibly taken shortly before she died in

1915. In her Journal pg 25 she said she and Elijah Bradley had been md

50 years: md July 5 1865 + 50 years =1915.

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REBECCA'S TIMELINE 1840-1915

1840 Nov 22, Rebecca born Fountain Co. IN.

1842 Rebecca and fam were in Chaney Creek, nr Nauvoo, Hancock, IL.

1847 July 9, arrived in Tahlequah, I. T.

1848 abt Sept. Went to Cedar Creek, TX.

1849 Lived 10 mi above Austin TX.

1850 Moved to Lampasas River 5 mi from Briggs, TX.

1851/2 Went back to Cherokee Nation near Tahlequah.

1853 Spring they moved to McCoy's Prairie 15 mi away.

1853 Sept 15, Rebecca's father, Richard Hewitt died.

1854 Rebecca's mother, Jarusha & children move to Benton Co. AR.

1856 Spring Moved to KS between Atchinson & Leavenworth.

1857 Spring, KS War, left, moved 100 mi west to Rock Creek, Pot Co. KS

1857 July, William takes Mother to Leavenworth for treatment-cancer.

?1857 Fall-Rebecca hired out to work at Abbotts for 2 years. (WHERE?

1858 May 30 MG to JOHN ADAMS, set up house on Rock Creek. Pot.Co.

1858 Fall -move east to Mo. River. Abt-Sept. John got sick.

1859 May moved back to Rock Creek where her Mother was. Took out

another claim- warrant lost in mail. Borrowed money-80 ac claim.

Had to move to Mo. River again. Atchinson.???

?1860 "We then lived in house we lived in first md" (in Rock Creek?)

?1861 Feb. dau Florinda b in Pottowatomie Co. (Rock Creek?

?1861 Fall William living Council Bluffs Iowa- Richard & Letty too?

1862 Feb. Jarusha died in Rock Creek, Pottawatomie Co. KS

1863 June dau Agnes Letty b. in Center Creek, Pottawatomie Co. KS.

1864 Aug. John Adams died -

Rebecca goes to NY with Florinda 3 1/2 & Agnes 15 months, to meet his mother

?1864 5 wks later William asks her to come to NE to help run a Stage Station

1865 She meets E. E. Bradley. July they marry in Ft. Kearny, NE 1867

May, son Richard Bradley born in dugout near Ashland, NE.

?1868 Sept move to s.e. Kansas nr Baxter Springs; then move to

Benton Co.AR due to illness of Solomon Bradley f/o Elijah E.

1871 June, dau Kate b Cherokee City, Benton Co. AR.

1873 Oct., dau Rebecca b Cherokee City, Benton Co. AR.

1877 Rebecca & E.Bradley move to Ornogo, MO then Webb City, MO.

1891 June, dau Kate md Wm McGoon- full Indian- Webb City, MO

1904 Kate & Wm McGoon +5ch-move to G'ma Bradley farm nr Niangua

1915 Kate & Wm McGoon +9ch-move to G'ma Bradley farm nr Niangua MO.

1915 June 10 Rebecca's bro, Wm. died at her home of Brights disease.

1915 10 days later Rebecca age 75, died also. Both buried at Niangua.

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Rebecca's mother, "Jarusha" Parker was a seamstress, half Indian, Cherokee. born Trenton, NJ. moved with parents to Ohio when 6 years old... Rebecca Aurilla Cohen, a grand dau of Jerusha's wrote in 1927.

BIRTH & DEATH DATE of Rebecca Mariah Hewitt WRITTEN IN STATISTICAL RECORD AT WEBB CITY MO BRANCH RLDS.

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9 APR 1855 DECLARATION by Rebecca's mother, Jerusha, at Benton Co., Arkansas..her maiden name, mg date & place, death date & place of Richard, signed Jarusha Hewitt.

MARRIAGE of Rebecca to John Adams 30 May 1858. He died of accidental gunshot wound getting on a horse.

Rebecca's handwritten Journal: (Connie Isaacks sent copy sent to Carol Minson in 1985)
handwritten copy pages 1-6 handwritten copy pages 7-11,

1851 in Texas . . “.Where we lived, near the Lampasas River, . . I was now ten years old and was baptized by my Father. “

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8 Dec 1851 at Bell Co., Texas, Rebecca's father made application for BOUNTY LAND RECORDS: Richard Hewitt, age 57(had been) IN CAPT CAMPBELLS HORSE REG OF OHIO VOLUNTEERS SEPT 1 TO NOV 1814.

Marilyn Schmidt published a typed copy of Rebecca’s journal.

REBECCA'S journal says she has a sister 3 years older and a brother 6 years older than herself and a brother 3 years younger and a sister 5 years younger. She also said her father, Richard Hewitt died 15 Sept 1852.

1856 - from Rebecca Hewitt's Journnal, pg 6-7:

We lived in Arkansas over two years and in the spring of 1856 we moved to Kansas, near Atchison, or rather between Atchison and Leavenworth. My Mother found a sister who lived near *Iatan, Missouri who she had not seen for years. Her name was Masterson and she had a daughter named Rebecca Baldwin who was three years older than me and larger so I was known as little Becca. . . .*In Platte County, Missouri on the Missouri River midway between Atchison and Leavenworth Kansas.

Rebecca Baldwin 13 in 1850 would be 19 in 1856.

Rebecca Hewitt b 1840 would be16 in 1856

Excerpt from Rebecca’s journal:

“I was borned in Fountain County, Indiana on November 22, 1840. My parents were members of the Latter Day Saints Church. My mother's maiden name was Jerusha Parker. She was born in the year 1800 at Trenton, New Jersey and moved with her parents to Ohio when she was six years old. My father was born in Kentucky and baptized by Orson H. Hyde. (Bishop Miller-according to LDS church records.) At the time of the massacre of the two prophets we lived on Chaney Creek about ten miles (south of) Nauvoo, Illinois.”

Riley Co. KS Gen group. sent the mg record of Rebecca and John Adams:
"1858 May 29, John L. Adam of Rock Creek and Rebecca Maria Hewitt of Rock Creek were md by Jacob Emmons Justice of the Peace at Emmons house near St. George; witnessed by Wm and Louisa Emmons."
Westmoreland, Pottawatomie Co. mg records." This was mg #7 on the Westmoreland books.

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Note from letters from Edith Wilson (granddaughter of Rebecca Mariah Hewitt) to Etta Mae Hewitt April 1972: and March 1972

After the death of John Adams, Rebecca went to NY as her husband asked her to. She had a time on the train as Agnes was only a very small baby and took sick and Grandma ran out of diapers so had to use John Adams large handkerchief. Then in the fall of 1854 she came back to Kansas.

John Adams was accidentally shot "in NE. He lived one hour. Grandma sold everything, wagon and horses and went on to New York by stage coach that was her husband's wish. He wanted her and daughters to meet his relatives. She spent two weeks there. spoke very highly of them.

EE Bradley belonged to Co A 1st Nebr VC. Feb 7 1866 he was mustered out. Nelvita Jones also said: First child Richard Nelson Bradley bo in NE north of Ft. Kearney I think May 30 1867 in a dugout on a soldier's claim. The winters were so cold they moved to S. E. Kansas and the to Benton Co. ARK where Katie Belle Bradley June 21 1871 and Rebecca Aurilla were born near Cherokee. When they left AR they went to Baxter Sprigs KS and lived for a while then moved to Webb City having been preceded by their dau & her husband Florinda & Daniel Bradford about 1876.

1863 Feb 27, Letter to Pension Comissioner from Manhattan Riley Kansas, " Jarusha Hewitt d 8 Feb 1862 LEAVING 2 MINOR HEIRS."... "WIDOW NEVER DREW 120 ACRES BLW TO WHICH SHE WAS ENTITLED."

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1865-MARRIAGE #2 TO ENOCH ELIJAH BRADLEY, 5 JUL 1865.

1865/1866 letters of E.E. Bradley and his wife Rebecca. Nov 1865, Dec 1865, Jan 1866 letters were copied by Wm. N. McGoon in 1931 who also wrote short histories of Enoch E Bradley and Richard Hewitt.

She and Enoch Elijah Bradley moved to Niangua, Webster Co. Mo in 1907

1865: (William Jacob Hewitt is brother to Rebecca (Hewitt) Bradley. Rebecca Bradley is Katie Bradley"s mother. and Katie Bradley is the mother of Wm N. McGoon. Brief bio sketch by Wm N. McGoon in 1972. ) "WILLIAM HEWITT, son of Richard Hewitt. Ran a stage station (and general store) on the Blue River in NE after the Civil War. He made his home with his sister, REBECCA and her two daughters.(1865 July) When Rebecca md a soldier, William left and went to Santa Barbara, CA where he md a woman and to whom were born ten children.

Brief bio sketch in 1972 letter written by Edith McGoon Wilson, gdau Enoch and Rebeca Bradley: "When E. E. Bradley and Rebecca were first married, (1865) they took a soldiers claim in Nebraska and lived in a dug-out as it was called. But they didn't live there long.

1867 Their oldest child, NELSON was born in Nebraska."Soon as Grandpa Bradley was out of the army, they moved down into KS around Marysville, KS.

After the death of Jerusha, they moved to S.W. KS, but didn't live there very long.

( )Moved on to AR, living there 5 or 6 years. Katie Bell and Rebecca were born in AR, due to the illness of SOLOMON BRADLEY, Grandpa's father.

1870 Round Prairie, Benton, Arkansas census

Bradley, Eliza 27 m farmer Indiana

Rebecca 29 f housekeeper Indiana

Florinda 9 f Kansas

Agnes 7 f Kansas
Richard 3 m Nebraska

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( ) They moved to Ornogo, MO, then to Webb City.

1880's-1890's: "RICHARD HEWITT kept a Journal of his activities and vital statistics of his family. This journal was burned when his daughter's house burned down at Webb City, MO in the 1880's or 1890's and all his notes were lost to his progeny. REBECCA M. HEWITT-BRADLEY had the journal. What we have now is what people remembered from that journal." (William N. McGoon- g grandson of Richard Hewitt b 1796.) per 1972 letter of William McGoon

1880 Webb City, Jasper, Missouri Census (7 Jun 1880)

Eligu E Bradley m 37 Indiana Ten Ten

Rebecca F 39 Wife Indiana Kentucky NJ

Agnes Adams f 17 Stepdaughter Kansas NY Ind.

Richard N Bradley m 13 Son Nebraska

Katie f 8 daughter Arkansas

Rebecca f 6 daughter Arkansas

1893 Feb 21, sister Mary Jane Hewitt Maloney died in Webb City, Jasper, MO

1900 Webb Ward 1, Jasper, Missouri census

Bradley, Enoch 57 Feb 1843 m 34 Indiana France INdiana

Rebecca 58 Nov 1841 m 34 5/5 Indiana Ohio Ohio
Bair, Chas 9 Dec 1890 Missouri New York Indiana

In 1901 William McGoon and wife Katie moved to Wright Co. Mo where Edith Leona was born.

1904 Nov 16 they moved on a farm belonging to Grandpa and Grandma Bradley 1 mi west of Niangua, MO.

1907, May 28, here Irene was born and Frank was b July 2 1909.

1909 fall,-1915 we moved to Holden, MO, living there 6 years when Grandma Bradley got them to move back to the farm west of Niangua.

1910 Niangua, Webster, Missouri

Bradley E E head m 67 m1 54 Indiana Tennessee Indiana
Rebecca wife 79 m2 54 5/5 Indiana Ohio Ohio

1910 William left Santa Barbara and made his home for a time with his neice KATIE MCGOON. 1912 He later went to Arkansas and in 1915 he became ill with Brights Disease and went to the home of his sister REBECCA BRADLEY at Niangua, MO. He died about 10 days after reaching Rebecca's home. Rebecca Bradley died 10 days after her brother William in 1915. WILLIAM is buried in the Free Will Baptist cemetery at Niangua, MO.

1912 Jul 9th my baby brother Edward was born. . . .my favorite. . cared for him till I was married in 1926. . .happy in Niangua, yet . . .Holden we had to leave many school mate friends and our Sunday School friends. . .Our Dad knew nothing about farming and anyway the Ozarks wasn't any place for a family at that time. Irene and I had 1 dress apiece and never had a new coat till we were married. Irene ran off and md at 17. I was almost 21 1/2 when Ezra and I were married. Since 1926 I have lived in Kansas: Marion KS 16 yrs; Delaven KS 7 years; Waverly KS 11 yrs; and Garnett KS 12 years this last Feb 14, 1972."

1915, March 17-Obit written by Rebecca M. Bradley herself (before her death of Jun 13, 1915.) "REBECCA M. BRADLEY was born Nov 22, 1840 Fountain Co.Ind. her Fathers name was RICHARD HEWITT her Mother's maiden name was JARUSHA J. PARKER. REBECCA M. HEWITT was married to John L. Adams May 30 1858 two children was born to them FLORINDA JANE & AGNES L. ADAMS. Was left a widow Aug 14 1864 July 5, 1865 was married to E. E. BRADLEY to this union three children was born namely RICHARD NELSON BRADLEY of Niangua, MO & MRS. KATIE B McGOON of Niangua MO & MRS. REBECCA A. COWEN of Webb City

1915 Death Certif of Rebecca Hewitt Bradley (& her 2nd husb, N. Bradley.) Rebecca's Death Certificate reaffirms birth date and place; also death date and place found herein. Cause of death: asthma &Chunue (?) Nephitis (?) Informant" N. Bradley." Place of burial "Webb City, MO."

1920 Niangua twp, Webster, Missouri Census

McGoon, William H 54 Iowa Canada Ohio

Katie B. 46 wife Arkansas Indiana Arkansas

Edith L 15 dau Missouri Iowa Arkansas

Irene 12 dau Missouri Iowa Arkansas

Frank M 10 son Missouri Iowa Arkansas

George E 7 son Missouri Iowa Arkansas
Bradley, Enoch E 77 father in law widowed Indiana Kentucky Kentucky

MARRIAGE-DEATH:28 Mar 1996 letter and FGR prepared by Frank L. Cline 723 South, 650 East, Bountiful, UT 84010 listed marriage to Enoch Bradley and Rebecca's death info.

Rebecca M. Hewitt was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 29 August 1877 at Oronogo, Missouri, by A. J. Cato. She attended the Webb City, Missouri Branch. Source: Zion's Ensign Obituaries, 26:27:7

Webb City, Missouri, RLDS Branch Records