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In October 1838 he married Jane Elizabeth Field
who died in 1857. They had seven children. (3)
Thus ends the history of another branch of the
Rector family, lineally descended from the immigrant John Jacob Richter of 1714. This
great and illustrious line illuminates the life of
the early German elder with his transcendent
glory. It is doubtful if any other line ever permitted the perpetration of physical stature and
attributes for so long a period (200 years) as
has been covered by the Rector regime. It
may also be doubted whether any family of
America through so long a time has maintained
its elegant discrimination as to dress or its
marked power in the wide realm of courtly
civility and almost princely refinement of
manners. With all this courage of the old Germans, without disparaging other great Arkansas names, it isjust to say that the name Rector
shines with a luster equal to that of any other.
(7)
2. The Rectors of Missouri
James Vincent Rector (son of Jacob Rector, Jr.)
was the great-grandson of the immigrant John Jacob
Richter. He was born August 21, 1782 in Rectortown,
Virginia and died November 30, 1855 at New London,
Ralls County, Missouri. Vincent married Artemisia Bowie,
the daughter of John Bowie, on December 25, 1809 in
Rectortown. She was born September 25, 1784 in Culpepper County, Virginia and died at Spencerburg, Pike
County, Missouri on October 20, 1849, (19) (14) (15)
About 1835 the family moved to Illinois and two
years later moved to Pike County, Missouri where they
purchased four hundred acres of land. In 1850 Vincent.