{"id":15781,"date":"2016-07-29T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:36:04","slug":"mayflower-descendant-rebecca-priest-wadsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendant-rebecca-priest-wadsworth.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendant: Rebecca (Priest) Wadsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a goal of documenting at least one Mayflower descendant each week.<\/p>\n<p>This week I chose Rebecca (Priest) Wadsworth (1838-1906), who was a descendant of Mayflower passenger <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Degory_Priest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Degory Priest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Rebecca\u2019s case her name and that of her husband were listed in one of the well-known online family history websites \u2013 but what was missing was the full genealogical facts of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Her detailed obituary supplied those facts, giving me her dates and places of birth and death, as well as the details of her funeral service and burial at Floral Park Cemetery in Binghamton, New York. As I looked further at her family I was able to add over 30 additional relatives to my family tree.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15783\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A11F15632632CF2BC%40GB3NEWS-11FC5718CF311190%402417446-11FC5718FA9C8C10%4014-11FC57198BB982B8\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/northern-christian-advocate-newspaper-0823-1906-rebecca-wadsworth-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Rebecca (Priest) Wadsworth, Northern Christian Advocate newspaper article 23 August 1906\" width=\"402\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/northern-christian-advocate-newspaper-0823-1906-rebecca-wadsworth-obituary.png 402w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/northern-christian-advocate-newspaper-0823-1906-rebecca-wadsworth-obituary-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Christian Advocate (Syracuse, New York), 23 August 1906, page 543<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every week I look in GenealogyBank for a person identified as being a descendant of a Mayflower passenger. It is part of my one-man effort to document the extended families of Mayflower cousins in preparation for the 400th anniversary in 2020 of the arrival of the Mayflower.<\/p>\n<p>Every obituary adds more details, documenting the tribe. I noticed that this obituary was particularly helpful in supplying the middle names of so many of Rebecca Wadsworth\u2019s relatives \u2013 as well as clues to discovering additional family members.<\/p>\n<p>Do your part in paying it forward for all genealogists. Find and document your relatives, and add your information to the major online family tree sites for the benefit of all family history researchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Mayflower Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-genealogy-finding-your-cousins-using-newspapers.html\">Mayflower Genealogy: Finding Your Cousins Using Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-recent-obituaries-for-all-my-mayflower-cousins.html\">Researching Recent Obituaries for All My Mayflower Cousins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/full-list-of-mayflower-passengers-in-gov-bradfords-newly-restored-journal.html\">Full List of Mayflower Passengers in Gov. Bradford\u2019s Newly-Restored Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/i-didnt-know-marilyn-guedesse-but-shes-my-cousin.html\">I Didn\u2019t Know Marilyn Guedesse \u2013 but, She\u2019s My Cousin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article featuring the obituary of Rebecca (Priest) Wadsworth (1838-1906), who was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,8263,2020],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-mayflower-pilgrims","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}