Rebecca Jane Harrelson

Notes:

Rosa McLemore wrote that her father first wife was "Isabell Harrison" the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in Virginia. She was probably assuming her name was Isabella based on the middle name of Keton's daughter Rebecca, apparently named for her mother.

She was actually the daughter of Solomon J. HARRELSON. It is believed that she died in childbirth, along with her eighth child, around 1853, probably in Jefferson County Texas. When son Felix Harrelson McLemore applied for an insurance policy, he listed his mother's cause of death as dysentery, after an illness of six weeks.

K.J. MCLEMORE , MARRIAGE TO REBECCA JANE HARRELSON ,
BNDS. SOLOMON J. HARRELSON , FATHER CONSENTS. MAY 28 ,1833.HINDS CO. ,
MISSISSIPPI MARRIAGE BOOKS
MARRIAGE BOOK 1,PAGE 261.28 MAY 1833.HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.

ESTATE PAPERS OF SOLOMON J. HARRELSON , FATHER OF REBECCA JANE MCLEMORE nee
HARRELSON,SHOW K.J. MCLEMORE BOUGHT A BRASS CLOCK FOR 30$, AND A PLOW FOR
$1.00 from the ESTATE OF SOLOMON J. HARRELSON.

HINDS COUNTY INVENTORY BOOK 2- 1836-1839
ROLL 87
#297-INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF SOLOMON J. HARRELSON MAY 16, 1837
#387-INVENTORY OF PROPERTY
#388- CONTINUANCE OF PROPERTY
FILED JAN . 23, 1838

(Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

Rebecca married Keton Jones McLemore on 28 May 1833 in Hinds County, Mississippi. Keton was born about 1809 in Kentucky; died after 1873 in Bastrop County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
In a March 1, 1955 letter to his niece, Pleasant McLemore, the youngest son of Keton by his second wife, recalls that the names of his fathers descendants by his first wife, as far as he knew, were "Lucreacia, Wright, Mandy, Isabel, Felix before Isabel (my error), Maggie, and then Thad, as for Harrison, I never heard of him.....I never did see Wright, saw Thad once, when we stopped at Felixes a few minutes, he didn't talk to me, and I didn't know who he was."

1. Wright K. McLemore was born about Jan 1835 in Mississippi; died on 24 Dec 1883 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; was buried in Baker Hill Cemetery, McDade, Bastrop County, Texas.
2. Lucretia Jane McLemore was born on 10 Nov 1838 in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi; died on 7 Mar 1930 in Yselta, El Paso County, Texas.
3. Amanda F. McLemore was born on 13 Feb 1840 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana; died on 14 Jul 1922 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; was buried in St. James Catholic Cemetery, Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas.
4. Felix Harrelson McLemore was born on 16 Mar 1843 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana; died on 16 Nov 1919 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri; was buried in Cox Cemetery, Millsap, Parker County, Texas.
5. Thaddeus Kociusko McLemore was born on 8 Nov 1846 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana; died on 24 Dec 1883 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; was buried in Baker Hill Cemetery, McDade, Bastrop County, Texas.
6. Rebecca Isabella "Bell" McLemore was born on 15 Mar 1850 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana; died on 16 Jan 1918 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas.
7. Margaret F. McLemore was born on 8 Jan 1852 in Texas; died on 25 Nov 1890 in Hico, Hamilton County, Texas; was buried in Honey Creek Cemetery, Hico, Hamilton County, Texas.
8. Infant McLemore was born about 1853 in Jefferson County, Texas; died about 1853 in Jefferson County, Texas.