Ancestry of
Elizabeth Smart

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Rebecca Hessy

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Elizabeth Smart — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 127 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Jul 1806 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rowan County, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Apr 1893 
  • Death Location:
  • Tabor, Fremont, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Tabor Cemetery, Tabor, Mills, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Reed Orton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1828 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Jane Orton (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rebecca Hessy's maiden name is also seen as Huey.

    Rebecca Hessy's name is also seen as Rebecca Hessy Warden.

    Some sources give William Reed Orton and Rebecca Hessy's marriage date as 30 JAN 1846, but this appears to be their sealing date in the church. LDS membership records give their marriage date as 1828.

• Sources for Rebecca Hessy

  • ¹ Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Record for Rebecca Orton.
  • ² Federal Census, IA, Pottawattamie County, 1850, Dist. 21, Image 39 of 187.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/26/2017).
  • ⁴ Obituary for Rebecca Orton (News clipping).
  • ⁵ Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835-1846, Record for spouse William Reed Orton.

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