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Rachel Garth (unknown)

Also Known As: "Holcomb", "Anderson"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: 1761 (43-44)
Hanover County, Virginia, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Wife of John Garth
Mother of Mary Ann Lobban; Elizabeth "Betty" Ross and Gen. Thomas Garth

Managed by: Sarah Farnsworth Hunnewell
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Immediate Family

About Rachel Garth


Biography

John Garth was living on the Spotsylvania County frontier by 1733. He and his wife Mary were settled in present-day Madison Co., VA. Their son John Garth (1713-1786) married three times: (1) Rachel?; (2) by 1761, Hannah; and (3) in 1775, Louisa Co., VA, Mrs. Elizabeth (Price?) Clark, widow. He died in Shelby or Henry Co., Kentucky. He was the father of at least eight children. His son Thomas Garth (1740-1812) married Judith Bocock, the daughter of Salem Bocock by 1761.

Source: Davis, Rosalie Edith. “The Garth family : descendants of John Garth of Virginia, 1734-1986.”(Dexter, Mich. : Thomson-Shore, Inc., c 1988). Not available online due to copyright date.


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Rachel Garth's Timeline

1717
1717
England
1740
1740
Surrey, England, United Kingdom
1744
1744
Louisa, Louisa County, VA, United States
1747
1747
Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia, Colonial America
1761
1761
Age 44
Hanover County, Virginia, British Colonial America