Rebecca Walkley Bogue Monroe

Rebecca Walkley Bogue Foster Monroe BIRTH 1775, Connecticut, USA DEATH 3 Jun 1838 (aged 62–63) Plymouth, Chenango County, New York, USA BURIAL Aldrich Cemetery, Norwich, Chenango County, New York, USA, MEMORIAL ID 65898152, Photos by Mary Button

Born in Connecticut to Rev. Dan Foster and Rebecca Walkley Booge, (–1775). Her mother probably died in childbirth. After her father remarried, to Elizabeth (Mather) Hayden, #24672516, the family moved to Weathersfield, VT and Charlestown, NH. She married (1) Nathaniel Prentes, a widower from New London. One child, Nathaniel Prentis, was born and died in Weathersfield. The family moved to Plymouth by 1806.

Nathaniel bought a mill but was accidentally killed when a rafter fell on him in 1809. She married (2) in 1811 Col. William Monroe, a Revolutionary War veteran, also a widower with children. They both died in 1838. One son, Nathaniel C. Prentiss, (ca 1798–1876) was a carpenter and became an architect and builder in the Midwest.

After a stop in Rochester, NY, he went to Milwaukee and Janesville, Wisconsin. He was in charge of the construction of the first capitols of Wisconsin and Minnesota. He died in St. Paul after choking on a bone. No one mourned his passing. There were sevearl Rebecca Walkleys: mother Rebecca Walkley Booge, great-grandmother Rebecca Walkley, great-grandmother Rebecca

Parents Dan Foster, 1748–1810

Spouses Nathaniel Prentes 1767–1809 (m. 1792) William Monroe 1761–1838 (m. 1812)

Siblings John Mather Foster 1780–1856 Sophronia Foster Stevens 1782–1872 William Stanhope Foster 1790–1839

Children Nathaniel Prentis 1793–1795 Hariot Prentes 1794–1812 Hiram Prentis 1805 – unknown D. R. Monroe Williams 1812–1880 Publius Virgilius Bogue Monroe 1814–1861

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