Rebecca Jane Montgomery
b. 1815

Rebecca Jane Montgomery, daughter of Robert Montgomery and Rebecca Coffee was born 1815 in South Carolina.  She married James Gideon on December 24, 1835.  He was born June 11, 1811 in Tennessee.  and died October 02, 1858 in Calhoun Co., Mississippi.

Land tax roll for Calhoun County Mississippi show that she owned 160 acres about half a mile west of Sarepta.  It would have originally been in Lafayette Co., but that part of Lafayette, along with portions of Yalobusha & Chickasaw Counties ceded land in 1852 to form Calhoun County.  The town of Sarepta was located in the northeast corner of Calhoun County not far from the Pontotoc County line.

The family was living in LaFayette Co., Mississippi on 1850 Census.  Robert Montgomery and Rebecca Coffee Montgomery, Jane’s elderly parents were living with the Gideons at the time of the census.  Robert died that same year, date unknown.

James Gideon, her husband was buried in 1858 in the Sarepta Cemetery, Calhoun County, MS.

Children of REBECCA MONTGOMERY and JAMES GIDEON are:

1. NANCY C. GIDEON, b. 1837, Mississippi.

2. WILLIAM WASHINGTON GIDEON, b. 1839, Mississippi; m. MARY JANE OVERSTREET.

3. JOHN W. GIDEON, b. 1842, Mississippi^.

4. WORD GIDEON, b. 1845, Mississippi.

5. JAMES D GIDEON, b. 1847, Mississippi.

6. HORACE GIDEON, b. 1850, Mississippi.

7. GEORGE GIDEON, b. 1852, Mississippi.

8. DAVID GIDEON, b. 1857, Mississippi.

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