FANNIN - WORKMAN - WV to IOWA?

FANNIN, WORKMAN, FERGUSON

Posted By: Ralph Sayre (email)
Date: 5/8/2004 at 07:27:28

Did Rebecca Fannin, b. 1850 in Wayne County (now WV) end up in Iowa? After 30 years searching, I still haven’t found out what happened to my great grandmother. We were told that she “remarried and moved away” among other things. People who told us that said they couldn’t remember to whom she remarried and where they moved. This would be vital information to tracing her final years. This is why I’m posting this message on as many “unknown county” queries as I can find.

I searched for her before there were computers and the Internet. My grandfather searched (1915-1920) and couldn’t find her. Here is the basic factual information that I have for her.

Basic facts on my great grandmother:
Born: Rebecca Fannin, about 1850, (Va./WV), d/o Silas and Mary (Ferguson) Fannin.
Married: 8 August 1868, Wayne, West Virginia, Reece Carl Workman.
Their son, my grandfather, Benjamin Freeland Workman, b. Wayne County, WV 2 April 1870.
My grandfather was taken from Rebecca by Reece before 1874, never to see each other again.
Reece married his cousin, Margaret Workman, in Mercer County, WV 2 February 1874.
Rebecca was granted divorce from Reece and custody of their child in Wayne, WV in March 1877.

This (1877) is the last known (to me) record of Rebecca (Fannin) Workman.
Family stories say Rebecca remarried and moved away, but they can’t remember to whom and where.
After my grandfather married, Reece, Margaret, and the other children moved to Wright County, Minnesota about 1895. Reece and sons established farms around Maple Lake and Annandale. After Margaret died, he returned and married again living near Crumpler, McDowell, West Virginia. He died in a car wreck in McDowell County in 1928.

I am hoping to locate a descendant of her second marriage.