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Widow of Abner Eads.
Rebecca Eads was the first American woman to see the site of Peoria. She crossed the Illinois River at Wesley City (now Creve Coeur) on Indian canoes. She is commemorated with a boulder (cenotaph) which still stands in Lincoln Park in Peoria, Illinois. It was placed in 1925 by the DAR. There was originally a plaque on the boulder as well that may be at the DAR office.
In the fall of 1854 she left Galena to live in Alameda with her son-in-law Orin Hamlin.
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A letter came from Orin Hamlin, announcing the death of Mrs. Rebecca Eads, Mrs. Greggs mother, at Alameda on the 22nd of Feb. last. This news I feared from the last intelligence we had. She arrived in California last fall, and stood the journey remarkably well for a person of her age, but soon after reaching there, fell sick and gradually declined until death removed her from this world. Thus it is ever with human hopes "In the midst of life we are in death." Mrs. E. came to California with expectations of future happiness with her children and grand-children, but they vanished before the commencement of their realization began. She was a good woman, a good mother and it may be hoped, a good Christian. Requiescat in pace. (From The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii).
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Widow of Abner Eads.
Rebecca Eads was the first American woman to see the site of Peoria. She crossed the Illinois River at Wesley City (now Creve Coeur) on Indian canoes. She is commemorated with a boulder (cenotaph) which still stands in Lincoln Park in Peoria, Illinois. It was placed in 1925 by the DAR. There was originally a plaque on the boulder as well that may be at the DAR office.
In the fall of 1854 she left Galena to live in Alameda with her son-in-law Orin Hamlin.
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A letter came from Orin Hamlin, announcing the death of Mrs. Rebecca Eads, Mrs. Greggs mother, at Alameda on the 22nd of Feb. last. This news I feared from the last intelligence we had. She arrived in California last fall, and stood the journey remarkably well for a person of her age, but soon after reaching there, fell sick and gradually declined until death removed her from this world. Thus it is ever with human hopes "In the midst of life we are in death." Mrs. E. came to California with expectations of future happiness with her children and grand-children, but they vanished before the commencement of their realization began. She was a good woman, a good mother and it may be hoped, a good Christian. Requiescat in pace. (From The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii).
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Widow of Abner Eads.
Rebecca Eads was the first American woman to see the site of Peoria. She crossed the Illinois River at Wesley City (now Creve Coeur) on Indian canoes. She is commemorated with a boulder (cenotaph) which still stands in Lincoln Park in Peoria, Illinois. It was placed in 1925 by the DAR. There was originally a plaque on the boulder as well that may be at the DAR office.
In the fall of 1854 she left Galena to live in Alameda with her son-in-law Orin Hamlin.
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A letter came from Orin Hamlin, announcing the death of Mrs. Rebecca Eads, Mrs. Greggs mother, at Alameda on the 22nd of Feb. last. This news I feared from the last intelligence we had. She arrived in California last fall, and stood the journey remarkably well for a person of her age, but soon after reaching there, fell sick and gradually declined until death removed her from this world. Thus it is ever with human hopes "In the midst of life we are in death." Mrs. E. came to California with expectations of future happiness with her children and grand-children, but they vanished before the commencement of their realization began. She was a good woman, a good mother and it may be hoped, a good Christian. Requiescat in pace. (From The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii).
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Widow of Abner Eads.
Rebecca Eads was the first American woman to see the site of Peoria. She crossed the Illinois River at Wesley City (now Creve Coeur) on Indian canoes. She is commemorated with a boulder (cenotaph) which still stands in Lincoln Park in Peoria, Illinois. It was placed in 1925 by the DAR. There was originally a plaque on the boulder as well that may be at the DAR office.
In the fall of 1854 she left Galena to live in Alameda with her son-in-law Orin Hamlin.
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A letter came from Orin Hamlin, announcing the death of Mrs. Rebecca Eads, Mrs. Greggs mother, at Alameda on the 22nd of Feb. last. This news I feared from the last intelligence we had. She arrived in California last fall, and stood the journey remarkably well for a person of her age, but soon after reaching there, fell sick and gradually declined until death removed her from this world. Thus it is ever with human hopes "In the midst of life we are in death." Mrs. E. came to California with expectations of future happiness with her children and grand-children, but they vanished before the commencement of their realization began. She was a good woman, a good mother and it may be hoped, a good Christian. Requiescat in pace. (From The Diaries of David Lawrence Gregg: An American Diplomat in Hawaii).
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