Individual Details

REBECCA HODGEN KEITH.
Daughter of Sarah LaRue (VI.) and Robert Hodgen. According to statement of her son, Charles W. Keith (VI. F l), she "was born on a flat boat while her parents were moving from Virginia, on November 4, 1784." She was married, September 6, 1803, to Jacob Keith (b. Sept. 13, 1776), son of William and Elizabeth LaRue Keith. They located on South Fork Creek, about three-quarters of a mile from the place now known as Lincoln Farm, but prior to 1828 moved to Harrison County, Indiana. Jacob Keith died about 1830. In the year 1831, Rebecca Hodgen Keith became the second wife of Gen. John Thomas, whose former wife was Susannah Hodgen, a half-sister of Rebecca. See sketch of Gen. Thomas, in connection with notice of Susannah Hodgen Thomas. Mr. Charles W. Keith, in his booklet "The Keith Family," says: "About the first that I remember was when I saw my mother and her second husband, Gen. John Thomas, coming home on horseback after their marriage. We lived in Floyd County, Indiana, near a creek called Indian Creek, five miles west of New Albany. Some time after their marriage, my step-father moved the family to Washington County, Indiana, and after living there a couple of years he moved to Vigo County, Indiana, within nine miles of Terre Haute, and settled on the farm of his son, Owen Thomas, and lived on this farm until his death, which was caused by a rose cancer, which destroyed one whole side of his face." After the death of Gen. Thomas, his widow returned to Floyd County, Indiana (in the year 1845), where, it is presumed, she died. --Otis M. Mather, Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families (Louisville, KY: C.T. Dearing Printing Co., 1921), 128.

Rebecca had 11 children by Jacob Keith. After she married John Thomas, they lived at her home on Indian Creek in Floyd Co, Indiana. They moved to Washington Co IN for two years, and then to the farm of his son, Owen, in Vigo Co where he died about 1835.

Birth	4 Nov 1784
Marriage	6 Sep 1803	Jacob Keith
Marriage	Abt 1831	John Thomas
Death	Aft 1845	Floyd County, Indiana

Spouse

John Thomas (1763 - 1836)

Spouse

Jacob Keith (1776 - 1830)