Rebecca's parents first came to Robertson Colony in 1833. They were some of the first settlers in this new land we call Texas. Elisha Anglin and Catherine Duty Anglin came to Texas from Illinois. Rebecca was the only child they had, that lived to adulthood. She had two older siblings but there's no record of their names or how long they lived.

She was just a baby when her mother, Catherine, died at Fort Houston, Texas, which is a few miles outside of what is now Palestine. All that is left of Fort Houston is the cemetery where she is buried.

After her mother's death, Rebecca was probably cared for by her two older sisters: Mary who was about 12 and Margaret who was 9. The children were most likely very thankful when their father married Orpha Bates James! The were living living in Limestone County on land that Elisha had received in 1835.

When Rebecca was 13 years old, she was living on a farm in Grimes County, Texas with her sister Margaret Anglin (McIntire) Moody and her new husband John Monroe Moody. Margaret had 3 small children when she married John.

Rebecca traveled as a pioneer to the Utah Territory, with her sister Margaret and her family. They traveled across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Missouri River to Keokuk, Iowa, where they joined the Moses Daley Freight Train in 1853. The wagon train departed on 6 Jul 1853 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory 27-29 Sep 1853. There were about 35 wagons until reaching Fort Laramie, at which place 9 wagons and a buggy left and traveled separately. Margaret's husband stayed in Texas, but he is listed in the Washington L. Jolley "individual company" that left out of Texas in 1854. Benjamin Franklin Coates brother William, was also in the same Jolley company.

Rebecca married Benjamin Franklin Coates in about 1854, and they settled in Grantsville. They moved to various places throughout the territory, to help settle the different areas, until they finally called American Fork their home.

Rebecca and B. Franklin Coates had 12 children, 8 of which lived to adulthood. She moved in with her daughter's Effie and Jennie in 1917 and remained with them until she died. They were living at 298 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, per the 1920 census record.

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On her death certificate it lists her father as Seth Anglin however, this is wrong. Seth Anglin was her half-brother, son of Elisha Anglin and Orpha Bates Anglin (his third wife). Rebecca's father was Elisha Anglin.