Rachel Ann Thompson Younker 1833-1913
2010
Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson. Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children: Jane, Samuel and William Pancake. Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel Pancake. Rachel was the second child and daughter of her parents William and Jane. However, it was as a result of Rachel’s birth that her mother Jane died. Her father William re-married. In 1867, when Rachel’s grandfather died, he remembered her in his Last Will and Testament. In fact, he was concerned about her needs to the point that he instructed his executor, his son Samuel, to pay money to Rachel Ann first. By this time she had married Jason T. Younker, also of Coshocton County, Ohio.
Rachel’s older sister Mary Jane has eluded us. We have, to date, not found a marriage or a death for her. We don’t know if she remained in Ohio or moved to be nearer her only sibling.
Rachel married a very adventurous man. Much is written about Jason Younker including his climb of Pike’s Peak. Rachel went by the name Annie most of her life. She and Jason became the parents of at least five children. She has posterity to the present day.
The migration of Rachel Ann Thompson Younker
Ohio to Colorado to Texas to Colorado