Bettie Hallett Thatcher Newcomb

labeled "Aunt Bettie Newcomb"

date unknown
location: Farmington, Illinois

may possibly be
Betty Hallett Thatcher Newcomb
b. 1793, Massachussetts
d. June 1880, Galesburg, Illinois
(1850 and 1860 US Census, Farmington, Fulton, Illinois, and US Federal Mortality schedule.)

see below for information about Betty and her second husband, Charles Newcomb

Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family : containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874

p. 491,
Charles Newcomb (Daniel, Jonathan, Jonathan, Peter, Francis) b. at Keene,N. H., Nov 28, 1792, farmer; spent 2 ½ years at Harvard Coll., which he left on account of poor health. Traveled several years in N. Y., O., Ind., and Ill.; reached Ill 1818, and went thence to Franklin, Mo., where he m. Mar. 22, 1822, Betty, dau. Of James and Susan Hallett, and widow of Capt. Peleg Thatcher, b. in Barnstable, Mass., May 11, 1793. He lived in Mo. 4 yrs; removed, 1824, to Springfield, Ill., and soon after to Farmington, Fulton Co., same State, where he resided till his death, May 6, 1859. He was many years sheriff of Fulton Co.; his widow res. In Galesburgh, Ill.