Hi George, no there was not a Rebecca listed as a daughter.
Patricia
George Davis wrote:
Hi Patricia,
Don't you think it is kind of strange that they would put her maiden name on
her headstone? Do your records have a daughter named Rebecca among the five
children?
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Caster [mailto:maverik@cwnet.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 9:08 PM
To: CASTOR-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CASTOR] Elizabeth Custer in Central Indiana
Hi George,
I did a search on the CAOA Archives and found that Elizabeth Custer is a
descendant of Paulus Kusters.
Her lineage is:
Paulus Kusters 1644-1708
Arnold Kuster 1669-1739
Conrad Custer 1695-1772
Arnold Custer 1718-1759
Elizabeth Custer 1788-1885
She married first to Miller then second to Custard first
names unknown. We show 5 children.
Patricia
George Davis wrote:
>
> Well, I went down to the Fowler-Mundy cemetery anticipating that I'd
figure
> out who this Elizabeth Custer was. She died in 1885 at the age of 97 as I
> said previously. Her headstone reads: "Grandma at Rest - Sacred to the
> Memory of - Elizabeth Custer - Died March 7, 1885 in the 97th Year of her
> age." Her side of the stone faces more or less east. On the south side
of
> the stone it reads: "Our Baby - Samuel W. - son of Hezekiah and Rebecca
> Hinkson - Born Nov. 6, 1850. Died May 18, 1851, aged 6 Mos. and 12 Dy's".
> >From that, I figured that Elizabeth Custer was probably Rebecca's mother.
>
> I then went to the Indiana State Library on the way home. The 1860 Census
> for Marion County IN (Perry township) has Hezekiah Hinkson, age 32,
farmer;
> "Rebeca" Hinkson, age 32; Francis, female, age 7; Catharine, female, age
3;
> Camefort, female, age 1; and a Wm. Nash (or Nashe?), male, age 19 listed
as
> a farm laborer. All the Hinksons are listed as being born in Indiana.
> Rebecca's mother would therefore have to have been in Indiana in 1828. So
> far I have not found Elizabeth Custer of the right age in Indiana. She
does
> show up in the Marion County Indiana, Perry Township census of 1870, where
> it lists her as age 78, born in Virginia. I then looked for marriage
> records for Hezekiah Hinkson and a Rebecca Custer. What I found was
> Hezekiah Hinkson marrying a Rebecca Anne Woodfill in Marion County, IN on
> Jan 22, 1850, which seems to fit well with Samuel's date of birth,
assuming
> he was their first child. So, now I don't know if Rebecca was previously
> married, and was Rebecca Custer or if Elizabeth Custer was previously
> married to a Woodfill.
>
> In the 1870 census, Elizabeth Custer shows up with a female named Jones,
> whose first name I am unable to read(starts with an M though) who is
listed
> as 50 years old, housekeeper. She has a 27 year old son Hezekiah and a 24
> year old son named John M. Jones. In the same dwelling and family are
what
> I read as Chas. Smith and Susan Smith, aged 28 and 19, another 10 year old
> female whose name I can not read, but looks like Emma Tacey, and Elizabeth
> Custer, aged 78. The males are all listed as farm hands, and the women
are
> listed as either housekeeper or "one of family"(Elizabeth and
"Emma").
>
> I can't remember if I looked in an index of the 1870 census for the
Hinksons
> or not. I expected to find them with Elizabeth and when I didn't I was
> pretty surprized. The library was fixing to close, and I didn't get a
> chance to think that I should go back to the indexes. I also got
distracted
> looking for Kisters in the out of state indexes. Next time I guess. Hey,
> if it was easy, it wouldn't be so much fun, would it?
>
> Most of the other graves around seem to be Fowler's and Mundy's. The
> cemetery is undergoing restoration, and many of the headstones are damaged
> or missing. Hopefully we'll know more in the future. Somewhere there is
> supposed to be a survey of this cemetery done around 1940. I'll try to
find
> a copy.
>
> I did take a few photo's, both digital and film, if anyone connects to
this
> Elizabeth.
>
> Later,
>
> George