Rebecca Latimer Felton
pictures and article By: Teagan Eiken
Introduction
Have you ever heard of Rebecca Latimer Felton? well she sure was an interesting pearson!
and her life was full of victoreys! she was a big part of womens history! do you want to find out more about rebecca? Well you have for sure came to the wright place!
rebecca twenty years old
rebecca forty years old
this is a painting
rebecca 94 years old
Early life
Rebecca Ann Latimer was born on June 10, 1835, the daughter of Charles Latimer, a decalub county merchant and planter, and his wife, Eleanor Swift Latimer. When the young Latimer graduated, at the top of her class, in 1852 from Madison Female College in madison, the commencement speaker was William H. Felton, a recently widowed state legislator, physician, methadist minister, and planter in bartow county. A year later the valedictorian and the speaker were married, and Rebecca Felton moved to her husband's farm, just north of cartersville. Of the five children born to the couple, only one, Howard Erwin, survived childhood.
life as a senetor
It is important to begin a discussion of Rebecca Felton's career by talking about her husband for two reasons. First, she entered the public arena through her husband's political career.
Rebecca Latimer Felton
late life
in 1930 Rebecca died. She died when she was 94 years old. Rebecca lived a long adventurous life. rebecca died becouse of her old age.