Person:Rebecca McCorkle (3)

Name	Rebecca McCorkle
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt 1780	Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
Marriage	11 May 1801	Montgomery County, Virginiato Capt. Andrew Thompson
Census^[2]	1850	Union, Kentucky, United States
Death`^?`		Union, Kentucky, United States

References

↑ History of Union County, Kentucky: a complete account of the settlement, organization, and government of the county, together with facts and figures concerning the society, professions, commerce, industries, agriculture, coal, railroads, education, religion, and other institutions and resources of the county, and biographical sketches of its leading citizens. (Evansville, Indiana: Courier Co., 1886).

... A. M. Thompson, farmer, who resides one mile east of Caseyville, is the son of Capt. Andrew Thompson and Rebecca (McCorkle) Thompson. His father was from Tazwell County, Virginia, and came to Union County in 1811. He was a militia captain in the War of 1812, and saw many of the hardships incident to a life in Union County in those early days. His mother sailed from Belfast. Ireland, when a child of six years. She was married in Montgomery County, Va. ...
↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).

Rebecca Thompson and Margaret Adams were enumerated in the same household in the 1850 Union Co., Kentucky census. Rebecca was 70 years old (born about 1780) and Margaret was 78. Both were born in Ireland.