Her inscription on the ARFONS family headstone reads only: "Mother" Arfons.
Notes from Thomas Joswick:
Sarah, who preferred to be called by her middle name Rebecca, was Bessie Arfons' mother. She was born Sarah Rebecca Tapp. Census records show her birthplace as Illinois, but when left by her father with her three sisters at the Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Shaker colony, their Journal notes "Nativity - Indian Territory" for the girls. They did live for a time in Illinois. Her father was Dillard Martin Tapp and her mother was Mary Rookard.
Rebecca's line of Tapps descend from the Powhatan Taptico, last "King" of the Wicimoco tribe. They left coastal Virginia in 1719. There were Tapps living in Indian Territory as Cherokees at the end of the 19th century; some are listed on the Dawes rolls.
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THANKS TO David Eschman for the following information:
About 1892 she married her first husband Joshua Benjamin Comley/Comely (who was married before) and they had eight children: Bertha, Pearl, Edna, Bessie, Arthur, Helen, Ruth, and Eugene. Joshua died in 1910.
On 16 Aug 1916 she married her second husband Charles Biddle. They had no children together, although he had several from a previous marriage. Her surname at the time of her death was Biddle, not Comley.
Notes from Thomas Joswick:
Sarah, who preferred to be called by her middle name Rebecca, was Bessie Arfons' mother. She was born Sarah Rebecca Tapp. Census records show her birthplace as Illinois, but when left by her father with her three sisters at the Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Shaker colony, their Journal notes "Nativity - Indian Territory" for the girls. They did live for a time in Illinois. Her father was Dillard Martin Tapp and her mother was Mary Rookard.
Rebecca's line of Tapps descend from the Powhatan Taptico, last "King" of the Wicimoco tribe. They left coastal Virginia in 1719. There were Tapps living in Indian Territory as Cherokees at the end of the 19th century; some are listed on the Dawes rolls.
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THANKS TO David Eschman for the following information:
About 1892 she married her first husband Joshua Benjamin Comley/Comely (who was married before) and they had eight children: Bertha, Pearl, Edna, Bessie, Arthur, Helen, Ruth, and Eugene. Joshua died in 1910.
On 16 Aug 1916 she married her second husband Charles Biddle. They had no children together, although he had several from a previous marriage. Her surname at the time of her death was Biddle, not Comley.
Her inscription on the ARFONS family headstone reads only: "Mother" Arfons.
Notes from Thomas Joswick:
Sarah, who preferred to be called by her middle name Rebecca, was Bessie Arfons' mother. She was born Sarah Rebecca Tapp. Census records show her birthplace as Illinois, but when left by her father with her three sisters at the Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Shaker colony, their Journal notes "Nativity - Indian Territory" for the girls. They did live for a time in Illinois. Her father was Dillard Martin Tapp and her mother was Mary Rookard.
Rebecca's line of Tapps descend from the Powhatan Taptico, last "King" of the Wicimoco tribe. They left coastal Virginia in 1719. There were Tapps living in Indian Territory as Cherokees at the end of the 19th century; some are listed on the Dawes rolls.
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THANKS TO David Eschman for the following information:
About 1892 she married her first husband Joshua Benjamin Comley/Comely (who was married before) and they had eight children: Bertha, Pearl, Edna, Bessie, Arthur, Helen, Ruth, and Eugene. Joshua died in 1910.
On 16 Aug 1916 she married her second husband Charles Biddle. They had no children together, although he had several from a previous marriage. Her surname at the time of her death was Biddle, not Comley.
Notes from Thomas Joswick:
Sarah, who preferred to be called by her middle name Rebecca, was Bessie Arfons' mother. She was born Sarah Rebecca Tapp. Census records show her birthplace as Illinois, but when left by her father with her three sisters at the Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Shaker colony, their Journal notes "Nativity - Indian Territory" for the girls. They did live for a time in Illinois. Her father was Dillard Martin Tapp and her mother was Mary Rookard.
Rebecca's line of Tapps descend from the Powhatan Taptico, last "King" of the Wicimoco tribe. They left coastal Virginia in 1719. There were Tapps living in Indian Territory as Cherokees at the end of the 19th century; some are listed on the Dawes rolls.
__________________________________
THANKS TO David Eschman for the following information:
About 1892 she married her first husband Joshua Benjamin Comley/Comely (who was married before) and they had eight children: Bertha, Pearl, Edna, Bessie, Arthur, Helen, Ruth, and Eugene. Joshua died in 1910.
On 16 Aug 1916 she married her second husband Charles Biddle. They had no children together, although he had several from a previous marriage. Her surname at the time of her death was Biddle, not Comley.
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