Person:Rebecca Ledbetter (1)

"History of Fayette Co Alabama" by Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Moses Newell, 1960, Fayette Alabama, p197 -no source named - says she was born abt. 1810 (age 14 at marriage?) and birthplace, Georgia or Tennessee. The Newells also speculated that perhaps Isaac Ledbetter is her father but with no source. Isaac Ledbetter and his sons John S. & Seaborn are shown to be in the same area as Asa Castellaw Alexander, both Sr. & Jr., in about 1820 and 1830; "A History of Dale County, Alabama, Bal McGee, p9:Bertha Settlement In Henry (later Dale) County where Isaac operated a store before moving to Walding Cross Roads where the Alexanders were.

Census: 1850 Geneva Co Alabama, Asa C. Alexander, says she was 40, same age as her husband, and born in Georgia, this would make her birt about 1805/6.

1860 census, Alabama, Coffee Co., Election Prec.#1, dwelling104: Rebecca Alexander-50, John-23, Alabama-14, Columbus-12.

SOURCES:

1 - History of Fayette Co. Alabama, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Moses Newell, 1960, Fayette, Alabama. 2 - 1850 Geneva Co. Alabama census 3 - "Geneva Co. Reaper" newspaper, 29 May 1902, W.F. Duffie. Printed excerpt in "Geneva, Alabama--a History" by Geneva Woman's Club 1987 in my possession. 4 - Marriage Certificate, Henry Co. Alabama, copy in my Asa C. Alexander file.

To check on her family: from Ancestry.com: Georgia Census Index: 1794 Warren Co., p164, Isaac Ledbetter 1798 Montgomery Co., p94, ditto 1805 Warren Co p203, ditto 1820 Early Co., p59, ditto: there is a female age 10-16 (she'd be about 14)

An Isaac Ledbetter married Ursilla Bradley 13 Jun 1806 in Rutherford Co., NC., Ancestry.com "North Carolina Marriages to 1825". This is not her father and mother as there is a record of both their deaths in Rutherford, NC. The NC Census Index has an Isaac Ledbetter in Rutherford Co in 1810, and 2 Isaac's in 1820. Rebecca's family was in Henry/Dale Co. Alabama by 1820/21.