James Markwell (1782-1850)

Rebecca Van Landingham (1792-1865)

Rebecca Markwell (1836-1885)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Joseph Lucas Hitch Emma N. Hitch+ Sarah Flora Hitch Henry Markwell Hitch Luthomson (Lew) Van Landingham Hitch+ Elizabeth Maud (Lizzie) Hitch Rebecca Markwell Born: 25 Jun 1836, Fleming Co., KY 1 2 3 4 Marriage (1): Joseph Lucas Hitch Died: 21 Nov 1885, Pendleton Co., KY 4 5 6 Buried: Abt 24 Nov 1885, Hitch Cemetery, Pendleton Co., KY 7    Notes from H. Donovan Hitch give this date as 1826. This conflicts by ten years with the Census data. However, I tend to believe the 1836 date. Rebecca married Joseph Lucas Hitch, son of Henry Pitts Hitch and Sarah Sanders Bryant. (Joseph Lucas Hitch was born in Sep 1828 in Pendleton Co., KY,1 8 9 10 11 12 13 died in 1900 in Pendleton Co., KY and was buried in 1900 in Hitch Cemetery, Pendleton Co., KY.)

1 "A Hitch Orchard", by Daisy Hitch, 1931.

2 1860 KY Census, Listed as age 24 in the 1860 Pendleton Co., KY Census, born in KY.

3 1880 KY Census, Listed as age 44 in the 1880 Pendleton Co., KY Census, born in KY.

4 Monument Inscriptions of Pendleton Co., KY (1994).

5 Correspondence with Harold Donovan Hitch of Covington, KY (1/6/1995).

6 Gravestone Record.

7 "Monument Inscriptions of Pendleton County, Kentucky", Ford & Nagle, 1994.

8 1830 KY Census, Listed as under age 5 in the 1830 Pendleton Co., KY Census.

9 1840 KY Census, Listed as age 10-15 in the 1840 Pendleton Co., KY Census.

10 1850 KY Census, Listed as age 21 in the 1850 Pendleton Co., KY Census, born in KY.

11 1860 KY Census, Listed as a farmer, age 31, in the 1860 Booth P.O., Pendleton Co., KY Census, born in KY.

12 1880 KY Census, Listed as age 51 in the 1880 Pendleton Co., KY Census, born in KY.

13 1900 IL Census, Listed as born in September 1828 in KY in the 1900 Farina, Fayette Co., IL Census. He is in the household of his son-in-law Thomas Switzer.