Rebecca Coffee

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Rebecca Coffee
(1774-1859)

REBECCA COFFEE was born 1774 in South Carolina1, and died in September 1859 in Pontotoc Co., Mississippi to causes unknown following a three month illness.2  She married Robert Montgomery.  He was born 1765 in South Carolina3, and died 1850 in LaFayette Co., Mississippi.

Nothing is known of Rebecca's origins.  That she was born in South Carolina is confirmed by the 1850 Census.  At that date she was living in Lafayette County, Mississippi with her husband, Robert Montgomery, who died that same year.  They were living near her youngest daughter (Rebecca Jane), son-in-law (James Gideon) and grandchildren.

Possibly after Robert died, she moved to Pontotoc County because she died there in September 1859 after an illness lasting three months.  She is listed on the mortality schedule for Pontotoc County in 1860.

I am working on the assumption that  both Robert Montgomery and Rebecca Coffee are from Lancaster County, South Carolina.  There are both Montgomery and Coffee families on the 1790 census.  Perhaps she is the daughter of Hugh Coffee and Agnes Montgomery Coffee.  If so, she may be known as Jane to genealogy researchers.  Or she may be an unknown to them.

Children of Rebecca Coffee and Robert Montgomery:

  1. JOHN MONTGOMERY, Of Cotton Gin, Mississippi;

  2. HUGH MONTGOMERY, b. 1790, South Carolina; d. 1833, Monroe Co.?, Mississippi; m. ANNIE UNDERWOOD BATTLE; b. 1800, North Carolina or Georgia4; d. 1880, Plus, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi5.

  3. MARGARET DIXON MONTGOMERY, b. June 01, 1804, South Carolina; d. August 13, 1866, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; m. WILLIAM SPENCER; b. 1797, North Carolina.

  4. POLLY MONTGOMERY, b. 1808, South Carolina; d. 1870, Calhoun Co., Mississippi; m. GEORGE COOPER; b. 1805, Georgia or Kentucky.

  5. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, b. Abt. 1810, South Carolina7.

  6. ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY, b. abt. 1813 in South Carolina; d. btw. 1832 and 1840, Tennessee; m. WILEY FIELDS; b. 1813, Tennessee.

  7. REBECCA JANE MONTGOMERY, b. 1815, South Carolina; m. JAMES GIDEON, December 24, 1835, Mississippi; b. 1812, Tennessee.

         

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