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Rebecca <I>Hoover</I> Proudfoot

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Rebecca Hoover Proudfoot

Birth
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Death
2 Jan 1895 (aged 88–89)
Scott County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Plot: Lot 17 bk. 20 [WPA cemetery records]
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She was born near Baltimore, Md., but removed with her parents to Pennsylvania during her childhood. In 1861 she removed with her husband to Iowa and settled near Davenport, where she remained a resident permanently. She died at her home in rural Lincoln township at the age of 90. Her husband, Richard J. Proudfoot, died about twenty years earlier. Three daughters, Mrs. Emma Baker and Mrs. Osborn, of this area, and Mrs. Eliza Douglass, of Cheyenne, Wyo., who, with two sons, Mathias, at home and Richard of Davenport survived her. The funeral services were held Jan. 4, 1895 from Zion's church near Le Claire. Interment was in the Zion cemetery. (Source: Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, IA, Jan 4 1895. Transcribed in Scott County Obituaries, iagenweb.org.) Note: A directive in Matthias Proudfoot's Will caused her body to be removed from Zion Cemetery and reinterred in a family plot in Oakdale Cemetery in 1912.
She was born near Baltimore, Md., but removed with her parents to Pennsylvania during her childhood. In 1861 she removed with her husband to Iowa and settled near Davenport, where she remained a resident permanently. She died at her home in rural Lincoln township at the age of 90. Her husband, Richard J. Proudfoot, died about twenty years earlier. Three daughters, Mrs. Emma Baker and Mrs. Osborn, of this area, and Mrs. Eliza Douglass, of Cheyenne, Wyo., who, with two sons, Mathias, at home and Richard of Davenport survived her. The funeral services were held Jan. 4, 1895 from Zion's church near Le Claire. Interment was in the Zion cemetery. (Source: Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, IA, Jan 4 1895. Transcribed in Scott County Obituaries, iagenweb.org.) Note: A directive in Matthias Proudfoot's Will caused her body to be removed from Zion Cemetery and reinterred in a family plot in Oakdale Cemetery in 1912.

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