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Individual Details For - Rachel Price GILBERT
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Gender	Female
Date Of Birth	23 DEC 1811	Date Of Death	19 JAN 1900
Place Of Birth	Belmont County, Ohio	Place Of Death	Morgan County, Ohio
Date Of Baptism		Date Of Burial
Place Of Baptism		Place Of Burial	Friends Cemetery, Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio
Date Of Christening		Date Of Emigration
Place Of Christening		Emigration Facts
Place Of Education		Date Of Education
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Fact Notes

Individual Notes
The following quotes are from an interview conducted with Rachel whenshe was in her later years: "Our family Settled in Morgan county in 1817; we were Quakers and came from the Barnesville area of Belmont county, by way ofZanesville, in a wagon, and settled in, what is now, Pennsville, although therewere, at that time, only two or three cabins in the neighborhood." "Two families, my father's and another, numbering altogether seventeen persons, lived in a one room cabin fifteen feet square. The country, for miles around, was one vast forest almost unbroken by the hand of man. Bears, deer, wolves, and snakes abounded, and I often saw deer and their fawns playing in my father's clearing, or I sat up all night to keep the wolves way from our livestock." After her marriage, "we commenced houskeeping in a log cabin hear Pennsville. Furniture, cooking utensils, dishes, and cutlery were scarce, and the housewife who had even a limited few of what aretoday's common household items was considered very fortunate." The first year of their marriage, one project was to collect sap on land near the river--enough to make eighty pounds of maple sugar.Other years meat and tobacco were the cash crops, but before they could be counted as gain, they had to be hauled to McConnelsville in aone-horse wagon. These words concerning Rachel are recorded in the family Bible of her daughter and son-in-law, James E and Anna Dewees: "Rachel Harmerpassed away 16th of 1st 1899. As she drew near her 88 birthday there seemedto be a decided weakening & upon that day the 23 of 12 mo she ate dinner with the family for the last time. Once in bidding a relative farewill she said how sweet to feel the hands that are clasped on earth may be clasped in heaven. Thus she was calmly nearing that bourne whence no traveler returns. Quietly & without apparent suffering she wasgathered home at a full age. The tired hands are free and the works of her life and the works of her life shall follow down the years to be. The influence for good, of a true pure life cannot be measured by man. Itis a continual sermon, a living epistle written in the hearts ofobservers." 1

Immediate Family

Parents and Grandparents

Spouse:

William Webester HARMER 7 JUL 1809 - 16 MAR 1892

Marriage Facts

Marriage Date:  24 AUG 1831
Marriage Place:  Pennsville, Morgan County, Ohio
Marriage Notes:

Children:

    Elwood HARMER 20 JUN 1832 - 5 JAN 1842
    Martha HARMER 7 JUL 1834 - 15 APR 1912
    Daniel HARMER 20 FEB 1836 - BEF 1844
    Lemuel HARMER 1 SEP 1838 - 3 MAR 1902
    Mary HARMER 30 DEC 1841 - 2 DEC 1916
    Thomas Gilbert HARMER 22 APR 1844 - 19 NOV 1920
    Anna HARMER 23 JUL 1846 - 29 JUL 1925

Mother:

Rebecca WILLIAMS 11 JUN 1785 - 28 FEB 1828

Grandparents:

Mary HUMPHRAY 4 JUN 1747 -
Daniel WILLIAMS 17 JUL 1747 -

Father:

Able GILBERT 2 OCT 1781 - 30 MAR 1844

Grandparents:

Elizabeth WHITE ABT 1749 - 29 JAN 1833
Joel GILBERT 11 APR 1747 - 15 FEB 1839