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Rebecca Malinda SWAZEE
(Abt 1808 – Bef 1881)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. husb MARTIN

2. Alexander Monroe BROWN
 3. Iva PATTERSON

Rebecca Malinda SWAZEE 1 2
  • Born: Abt 1808, Mississippi, USA 3
  • Marriage (1): husb MARTIN before 1828 1
  • Marriage (2): Alexander Monroe BROWN on 11 April 1830 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri, USA 1
  • Marriage (3): Iva PATTERSON on 30 May 1859 1
  • Died: Bef 1881
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bullet  General Notes

When Sarah Brown was 7 and her oldest brother 17, their father  joined the great majority of Portland men, and rode off to the Gold Mines of California in 1848.  This was a severe blow to the wives left behind, to take care of the children, and the little farms, but those wives had little time to brood over their plight.  Their Donation Land Claim was on the Oregon bank of the Columbia River, so Rebecca M. Brown went to work and made a big garden, with the children's help, and sold vegetables to the ships that passed by, thus making a living for herself and her children.  Alexander eventually returned from the mines, and brought home some gold, but he lived only a few years.  He died in Portland about 1857.  (Our Colonial Lines, p. 94)

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • She worked as a Sold vegetables to passing ships.
  • Fact. A young widow, Rebecca, went north to visit brother in St. Louis, leaving 2 young children in the care of relatives. Met and married Alexander Monroe Brown. He promised to go after her 2 children, but he never did.
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Rebecca married husb MARTIN before 1828.1 (husb MARTIN was born about 1803 in prob Mississippi, USA 3 and died before 1830.)


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Rebecca next married Alexander Monroe BROWN on 11 April 1830 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri, USA.1 (Alexander Monroe BROWN was born about 1802 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA and died about 1857 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.)


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Rebecca next married Iva PATTERSON on 30 May 1859.1 (Iva PATTERSON was born about 1803 in prob Oregon, USA 3.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 93. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.


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