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Rebecca Green FultonGeneration 4Historical Notes
There are no known photographs of Rebecca Green Fulton.
Marjorie Mack Oetting sites the following information from an article about Alexander Robert Fulton [son of James (Gen. 4) and Rebecca Green Fulton] in the book "Iowa's History" by Gue, page 451: "The mother of Judge [Alexander Robert] Fulton was a daughter of Nathaniel Green, a Virginian, whose ancestors left their home in the north of Ireland to become residents of the United States."
From the Fairfield Ledger, January 9, 1884, Page 3, col. 7: BURIAL OF MRS. FULTON. The remains of Mrs. Rebecca Fulton, widow of James Fulton who died in Round Prairie township in 1880, were interred in this city Friday last. Mrs. Fulton was 84 years of age, and died at the home of one of her sons, December 31st, at Wellsville, Mo. She and her husband came to Jefferson County in 1850 from Ross County, Ohio, and lived on the Bayard farm, just northwest of this city, for 11 years. They lived in the county until Mr. Fulton's death. They reared a large family and among those yet living are A.R. Fulton, of Des Moines; James I. Fulton of Rome, this state; John I. Fulton of Wellsville, Mo.; and Mrs. Wm. Corry, of this city...
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