Rebecca Katherine Walpole

1812 - 1881  (69 years)

• Name	Rebecca Katherine Walpole  [1, 2]
  Born	10 Mar 1812	North Carolina   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Biographical	Abt 1850  [2]
  	went to Texas in a wagon train after her husband's death
  	The train was headed by John Gooch Nance of Rutherford County, Tennessee.  She was a driver, cook, nurse & housekeeper.  The Walpoles had settled in the Red River area of Texas before 1847 and had done well there.
  Name	Katherine Rebecca Walpole  [2]
  Name	Katherine Warpole  [2]
  Name	Rebecca Harrison Walpole  [2]
  Died	4 Jul 1881	Blossom Prairie, Detroit, Red River County, Texas   [2]
  Buried	Aft 4 Jul 1881	Old Starkesville Cemetery, , Lamar, Texas   [2]
  Person ID	I5282	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2007

  
  

  Father	Charles Harrison Walpole,   b. 3 Oct 1788,   d. 28 Sep 1851, Rutherford County, Tennessee  (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Frances Clements,   b. Abt 1792,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Nance Garner,   b. 15 Jun 1810, Rutherford County, Tennessee ,   d. 10 Jun 1847, Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee  (Age 36 years)
  Married	3 Jan 1833	Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee   [1]
  Children	+ 1. William Harrison Garner,   b. 11 Nov 1834, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Jan 1906, Paris, Lamar, Texas  (Age 71 years)   2. Frances Catherine Garner,   b. 10 Mar 1836, Rutherford County, Tennessee ,   d. 1 Aug 1912  (Age 76 years) + 3. Mary Elizabeth Garner,   b. 1840, Rutherford County, Tennessee ,   d. Abt 1874  (Age 34 years) + 4. Louise Rebecca Garner,   b. 6 Mar 1842, Tennessee ,   d. 7 Jul 1879  (Age 37 years) + 5. John Nance Garner, II,   b. 11 Oct 1844, Rutherford County, Tennessee ,   d. 31 Oct 1919, Detroit, Red River, Texas  (Age 75 years)   6. Charles B. Garner,   b. 26 Dec 1847, Rutherford County, Tennessee ,   d. 11 Aug 1899, Detroit, Red River, Texas  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2006
  Family ID	F1939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Supposedly, she was a descendent of Sir Richard Walpole the British PM & Parliamentary leader of the early 1700s.  She was raised in a famioly of culutred & well off Tennessee gentry who lost their fortune when she was 25, in the Panic of 1837. J. H. Garner

  
  

• Reference

  If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Rebecca Katherine Walpole" (accessed February 26, 2021) | http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5282&tree=Legends.