Rebecca Francis Adair Stayner

Name: Rebecca Frances ADAIR Sex: F Birth: 8 JUL 1835 in , Pickens, Alabama Death: 26 MAY 1836 in , Pickens, Alabama Ancestral File #: 4WF0-56 RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. For some reason, Rebecca was not reported in the following census. The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL Film # 505,913; Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Samuel Adair Roxana " Ann " John M. " George " Jane " Newton " Rufus " Catherine " William " Joseph " Emily " Ezra T. " Joshua " Eliza J. "

DEATH: 1. Email of Amy Von Cannon, Feb 2002, : Alternate death date on Rebecca Frances: Mt Pisgah, Union County, Ia on May 26, 1846. 2. Ancestral file reports this individual two ways: as an infant who died 26 May 1836 presumably in Pickens Co., Alabama since the family did not move to Mississippi until approximately 2 years later. Samuel Newton Adair's biography supports a pre-Iowa 1846 date because indicates only 3 of his brothers and his mother died in Iowa which makes one leery of a 20 May 1848 in Iowa death date also shown by some.

!ORDINANCES: Verified 25 Feb 2002 Note: Assumed the potential death date of 1836 as being correct; if she died after age 8, then use reported temple work for baptism as 30 Oct 1954 and endowment as 5 Jun 1957. BAPTISM: Child ENDOWMENT: Child SEALING TO PARENTS: Ordinance Index 1.02, FHL Film 170583, p. 9, and also Film 456338. SEALING TO SPOUSE: Unmarried [but with some doubt - see question below].

QUESTIONS: Some report a marriage to possibly Jeremiah Stayner but some also show a death date of 1848 which would make her married before she died at age 13 which seems unlikely. There are other ordinance entries showing unreasonably dated marriages in Alabama years after the family moved to Nauvoo and to the West in 1846. Marriage unproven and proof is subject to whether she really died young. There is however a Jeremiah Staynor living in St. John in 1880 born abt 1848 in Illinois with parents' birth noted in census as unknown and living next door to Wesley Adair. Could this be a child of a marriage of an Adair with a Jeremiah Stayner. Ordinance index does report a marriage sealing at the St. George temple on 28 Nov 1877 per film 170579, 431 which is troubling in that the sealing would have been done contemporaneously to her living siblings who would have had first hand knowledge of their sister. There does not appear to be a record of Rebecca in Utah nor a record of an Iowa death with her siblings. If she had not died young in Alabama, she would have been too young to have remained there and not have gone to Nauvoo with her family.

!ACTION: Check for a Jeremiah Stayner in earlier censuses to try and disprove a marriage with Rebecca. Look also at temple work in St. George in 1877 to see who the family member was. Note a marriage is reported per website ; "Early Marriages (1862-1919) in Washington County, Utah: Male and Female Surname Indexes," compiled by Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D: "Jeremiah Stayner, residing Hebron, Wash., UT and Francis Adair, residing Hebron, Wash., UT, lic. and mar. 1868 at Hebron, Wash., UT, number GS 026l,037. [No ages given.]" Change Date: 19 APR 2003 at 11:13:19

Father: Samuel Jefferson ADAIR b: 28 MAR 1806 in , Laurens, South Carolina Mother: Jemima Catherine MANGUM b: 14 SEP 1809 in Lebanon, Warren, Ohio

Please feel free to contact Delbert Adair Jr. at the following address: dtadair@att.net
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