Rebecca Winters' Grave, Scottsbluff, Nebraska

ID: 351 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2831.PH000001 ~ Date: 1929

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This shows the Rebecca Winters grave at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. There are several people gathered around the stone for an unveiling of a tablet on May 26, 1929. The woman closest to the stone is Mrs. Booth, the oldest granddaughter of Rebecca Winters. A train is stopped alongside the gravesite.

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Rebecca Winters

By The Explore Nebraska History team

Rebecca Winters, daughter of Gideon Burdick, a drummer boy in Washington's army, was born in New York State in 1802. She was a pioneer in the Church of the Latter Day Saints, being baptized with her husband Hiram in June 1833. Membership in the…