Rebecca Ann Reger was born circa 1832 at
Virginia. She was the daughter of
Abram Reger and
Leah Ann Brake. Rebecca Ann Reger married
Thomas Edward Seay circa 1846. Rebecca Ann Reger died on 29 March 1916 at
Atlantic City, Atlantic Co., New Jersey. She was buried in 1916 at
Ft. Union, Virginia. She was New Tag Obituary from the Richmond, VA Times Dispatch:
"Mrs. Rebecca Ann Reger Seay was born at the old Carper Place near Buckhannon, W. VA, February 10, 1831, died at her home in Chelsea, Atlantic City, N.J. 29 Mar., 1916. Mrs. Seay was connected with a very prominent line of ancestors, both in reference to the history of our county and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a cousin of "Stonewall" Jackson, and in a sense possessed some of his characteristics. During the Civil War she helped nurse the wounded soldiers while her husband was at the front, and at the same time kept her little family together during the long years of strife. Her grandfather, John Reger, Sr., built the first Methodist Episcopal Church in West Virginia at Peck's Run. Two of her brothers were ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, one of whom, the Rev. John W. Reger, was the founder of the Weslyan University at Buckhannon, W.V., and a member of the Baltimore Conference. The other brother, Rev. A.A. Reger, organized the Methodist Church at Carthage, Ill. Her father was the late Major Abram Reger and her mother was Leah Ann Brake Reger." In 1916.