Samuel  Rector and Ruth Simpson Click to view the family tree

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Husband:   Samuel  Rector

Born: 10-Aug-1780
Died: 21-Mar-1862
Father: Jesse Rector
Mother: Unknown


Born in Fauquier Co., Va., August 10, 1780 and died March 21, 1862. He moved to Rowan County with his father when he was a small boy. Then moved with family to Grayson County and left Grayson Co., between 1804 and 1807. Dr. Salmans shows Samuel in Grayson Co. with one "tithable" in 1804. The records of Wayne Co., Ky shows that on Feb. 14, 1807 Samuel Rector posted a 50L bond for the marriage of himself and Ruth Simpson. Permission for the marriage was signed by her father Reuben Simpson. So he married shortly after the above posted date Ruth Simpson, born on Jan. 8, 1790 in South Carolina. They lived out the rest of their lives in a high rolling valley in Kentucky surrounded by the low hills of the Cumberland Mountains. They both lived to a ripe old age. He died at 82, and she died years later at age 88. According to census records they had 9 children.

Most of these folk are buried in a little cemetery near Rector's Flat Baptist Church south of Monticello, KY. Rueben Simpson is buried with his wife in Tranquilla in the Bethesda cemetery. Joseph William migrated to Arkansas, then to Texas. The cemetery was reported to be in good condition in 1973.

Wife:   Ruth Simpson

Born: 8-Jan-1790
Died: 1878
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Female  Child 1:   Polly  Rector

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Male  Child 2:   Jesse Rector

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Female  Child 3:   Sarah Rector

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Female  Child 4:   Elizabeth Rector

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Male  Child 5:   Rueben Simpson Rector

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Male  Child 6:   James Rector

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Male  Child 7:   Joseph William Rector

Born: 3-Sep-1826
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Spouse: Ann Etta Cooper
Children: Marshall  Rector, Kansas  William Rector, Etta Rector, Granville Simpson Rector, Elizabeth Rector, Joseph Rector


Born in Wayne County, Ky. He married Ann Etta Cooper in Wayne Co., Ky sometime before he was age 23 and she as age 19. They do not appear in the 1860 census of Wanye Co., so sometime in between they migrated to Arkansas. There were many cooper families in Wayne County. A small post office and creek were named after them. The old patriarch of the family was Frederick Cooper. He was born in York Co., PA and served in the Revolutionary War with a Pennsylvania company where he drove a service wagon taking supplies to George Washington's army. Then he left that service after those first battles and moved to Rowan Co., N.C. In 1880, where records of the county show he enlisted as a corporal in Capt. Enoch's company. Later, under General Gates, he was captured by the British but managed to escape in a few days. He served under General Morgen at Cowpens and at Eutaw Springs. After the close of the war he married Dorothy Brown and moved to Wayne County, KY in 1799. He was the grandfather (or great-grandfather) of Ann Etta Cooper who married Joseph William Rector.

Male  Child 8:   Samuel Rector

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Male  Child 9:   Isaac D. Rector

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