Rebecca Fenby Bausman
circa 1920
Photo courtesy of family.

 

Rebecca Fenby Bausman was from St. Louis, MO. Her father was prominent as grain and flour merchant at St. Louis. Wife of Abner Lacock Bausman, DDS. They were married in 1879. Two sons: Richard Fenby Bausman, Alonzo Linton Bausman. One daughter: Marian Douglas Bausman.  Rebecca: DOD 29 Apr 1927, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; buried at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota 

Rebecca was..."Prominent in church and social work. "She is a most estimable lady, richly deserving of the high regard the people have for her."  Source: Compendium of History and Biography of Minneapolis and Hennepin County, Minnesota

Abner Bausman: "He was well known all over the city and was a great favorite with its older physicians and all classes of the earlier residents, and toward all men he was genial, obliging and companionable at all times, and practically serviceable when he could be...A man of great moral courage, kind, generous, always ready to see the good in everyone and to overlook their weaknesses, a man greatly loved and respected by his friends and acquaintances for his integrity and high sense of honor."  Source: Compendium of History and Biography of Minneapolis and Hennepin County, Minnesota  Abner: DOD 8/29/1911.