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Rebecca Jane Ott

Rebecca was b. in Water Valley, Yalobusha Co, Ms. When she was 13, her father took his new bride and the younger children to Tx. He promised to come back for her, but she said, "Don't bother." She moved to Tx herself when she was 13 and lived as a houskeeper for various families until she married Aime J. Freymond at age 15. He was 21 and only spoke French. She left with his daughter and ran from him for 7 years. He went back to Europe and she remarried Walter John Shelton. 9 mos later she had Jesse Emerson SHELTON b: 1 JUL 1890 in Waco, Texas, my grandmother Lillian's baby brother. She remembers his birth. Walter took Lillian as his daughter, and she was never told that she was not his.

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