Family Trees - Rebecca Lincoln 1850

Rebecca Stephenson Lincoln

Birth:		05-May-1850, Hodgdon, Maine
Death:		10-Apr-1929, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Marriage:		14-Sep-1872, Belmont, Portage County, Wisconsin

Paternal Lineage

Children

With husband Willaim Tunks:

Izetta Maud Tunks, born 1874
Everett A. Tunks, born 1877
Elery Tunks, born Jan-1879
May I. Tunks, born 14-May-1892

Notes

Rebecca, born in Maine, came with her parents (Warren and Izetta Lincoln) to Wisconsin around 1854 - 1855. Her father, Warren, died in 1872 when she was 21, and she married later that year to William S. Tunks in Belmont, Wisconsin, who happened to be the father of Ida Tunk, who married Rebecca's younger brother, Robert, one year later. Rebecca was William Tunks' second wife, and they remained married until his death in 1914 when he was 82 (they were married for about 42 years). Their exact date of marriage is from the Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wispags/resources/mar-bride-i-l.html). It appears that Rebecca lived in Wisconsin for all of her adult life. She and her husband eventually lived in Waupaca county, which is just east of Portage county, which contains the First Belmont Cemetery, where she and her husband are buried. Rebecca was 78 when she died.

The spelling of her last child, May I. Tunks, is uncertain. It appears as Mae in some documents. The childs exact birth is from a Wisconsin birth index.

Documentation is from:

History and Memories - Portage County, Belmont Township, Wayne Allen Guyant, 1984, Vol. I, page 15.
Stevens Point Daily Journal, 20-Apr-1929.
Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society
Family documents from George Lincoln, brother of Rebecca.
US Federal Census
Wisconsin Births, 1820 - 1907 (from Ancestry.com)