Name: Rebecca Arvecost
Birth: 15 Jan 1763              probably Washington Co. PA
Death: Nov 1841                 Vertrees, Hardin Co. KY

Father: John (Johannes) Arvecost (Arbengast) (~1730-1802)
Mother: Rebecca Wells (~1740-1808)

Spouse: John Hartley
Birth: 25 Feb 1755             probably Washington Co. PA
Death: 25 Mar 1839             probably Hardin Co. KY
Marriage: abt 1780

Children:
1. Jacob (1781-)
2. Mary (1783-1858)
3. Rebecca (1785-1857)
4. John Jr. (1788-1829)
5. David (1790-1827)
6. Elizabeth (1792-1817)
7. Rachel (1795-1840)
8. Catherine (1796-)
9. Hannah (1797-)
10. Joseph (1800-1867)

Joseph Hartley describes his mother, Rebecca Arvecost:

My father's name was John Hartley; my mother's maiden name was Rebecca Arvecost. They had born to them twelve children, six sons and six daughters; of which they raised ten--five of each. They were originally from Virginia, and, like most new comers in those days, very poor. The country being new, and having but few advantages, they had to make their living in the hardest toil; and, even in my raising, constant labor was the order of the day. My father had no education, not so much as to enable him to read; and, having been always a frontier man, was extremely illiterate and awkward in language. My mother had but just learning enough to read imperfectly. Thus it was, that in my childhood, I acquired a habit of speaking imperfectly; and, as I advanced in years, I became sensible to this awkwardness, while mixing with others who had been better instructed. Being sensitive of my situation, I was all the time, when in company, laboring under serious embarrassments. 1

Researcher Arthur Leslie Keith tells us that:

In 1840, in Hardin county, died Rebecca Hartly, advanced in years. The older Keith’s claim her as an aunt, and the writer believes she was a daughter of Jonathan Harned, Sen’r, but lacks the proof. 2

1. “A Sketch of the Life of Elder Joseph Hartley " by Joseph Hartley, Advocate Job Office, Salem, Illinois, 1841 (appearing as part of the book Hartley Family, no author , no editor listed, but given to the Shawnee Library System, Carterville, Illinois by John Tanner Aichele, Fort Wayne Indiana)

2. Notes on Larue, Hodgen, Keith, Harned, Irwin & Related Families” contribibuted by Arthur Leslie Keith, Ph. D., Northfield, Minn, William & Mary Quarterely, Vol 20, N0. 2, Oct 1911, pp 109:

This page was prepared by Charles Hartley.