Rebekah Heaton Elder^[1]

1821 - 1906  (84 years)

• Name	Rebekah Heaton Elder  [2]
  Birth	21 Oct 1821	Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Resided	1860	1st District 22nd Ward Philadelphia City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   [4]
  Resided	1860	Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   [4]
  Resided	1880	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   [4]
  Resided	1900	Philadelphia city Ward 27, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   [4]
  FindAGrave URL	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142024555
  FindAGrave ID	142024555
  FamilySearch ID	L6RY-5BH
  FamilySearch URL	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6RY-5BH
  Death	1 Oct 1906	Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Burial	St. James the Less Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Person ID	I10477	Main
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Capt. William Thomas Elder,   b. 1 Oct 1784, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States d. 11 Mar 1874, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Eliza Lentz,   b. Jan 1795, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States d. Sep 1852, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	15 Jan 1818	Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Family ID	F3833	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William H. Larzelere,   b. 22 Dec 1814, Burlington, New Jersey d. 3 Jun 1887, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	21 Oct 1841
  Children	+ 1. Annie Larzelere,   b. 8 Jan 1843, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 27 Nov 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 78 years) + 2. William H. Larzelere, Union Soldier,   b. 14 Feb 1844, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 7 Jun 1883, Cape May Point, NJ (Age 39 years) + 3. Washington Irving Larzelere, Union Soldier,   b. 19 Feb 1848, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 7 Dec 1913, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States (Age 65 years)   4. Clifford Earle Larzelere,   b. Aug 1851, Pennsylvania d. 6 Jan 1926, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age ~ 74 years)   5. Benjamin Franklin Larzelere,   b. 2 Jul 1853, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States d. 15 Aug 1872, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 19 years)   6. Blanche Elder Larzelere,   b. 2 Nov 1860, Germantown, Pennsylvania d. 24 Sep 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 62 years)
  Documents		William Larzelere Family Plot records
  Family ID	F3638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Resided - 1860 - Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Resided - 1880 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents		Larzelere - Society page Mrs. Rebecca Larzelere and her daughter, Miss Blanche Elder Larzelere, are at Belmar for the rest of the summer. Philadelphia Times, Friday August 8, 1902
  		Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) records Blanche Larzelere, Rebeca E. Larzelere 1888 Philadelphia, PA

  
  

• Notes

  Keith Larzelere notes: "From apparently a September 1905 newspaper Mrs. Rebekah Larzelere, Eldest daughter of the late Captain William T. Elder, of the artillery service of the War of 1812, and widow of William Larzelere, a merchant broker and a member of City Councils, died yesterday morning in her eighty-fifth year. Mrs. Larzelere was prominent in church and charity work, being instrumental in the formation of two parishes, that of the Holy Cross of Germantown, now St. Michael's and the Incarnation, whose church is at Broad and Jefferson sts. She was a lineal descendant of one of Philadelphia's old shipping merchants, William Thomas Smith, a West India planter who came here before the Revolution. His wharves are still known as Smith's wharves. Mrs. Larzelere was actively engaged in charities for the soldiers during the Civil War, and especially interested in the Cooper Shop Hospital and the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. Her two oldest sons were in the army then. She is survived by two sons--Clifford Earle and Washington Irving--and two daughters--Miss Blanche Elder and Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Haverstick. The funeral will take place next Thursday morning at 10 A.M. , from her late residence, 4431 Sansom st., and other services will follow at 11 o'clock in the Church of St. James the Less, Falls of Schuykill. Her childrens' grief has been intensified by the report of the sudden death by heart disease of Mrs. Larzelere's nephew, Harry E. Lynn, of Mt. Holly." [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com). [S1656] Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142024555/rebekah-heaton-larzelere. [S826] 1920 US Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6YG-DLH  "Entry for Blanche Howell, father b. New Jersey, mother b. Pennslyvania. [S1701] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 20 Aug 2022), entry for Rebekah Heaton Elder, person ID L6RY-5BH. [S1736] Obituary, https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=keimar&id=I5099.