Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Medberry, Rebecca B.

MEDBERRY, Rebecca B. (Stetson), author, b. in Roxbury, Mass., in 1808; d. in Lynn, Mass., in 1868. She married Rev. George Kalloch in 1829, and after his death became in 1837 the wife of the Rev. Nicholas Medberry, pastor of the Baptist church in Watertown, Mass., and afterward city missionary in Portsmouth, N.H. She published “Memoir of William G. Crocker, late Missionary in Western Africa, with a History of the Bassa Mission” (Boston, 1848); “Memoirs of Mrs. Sarah Emily York” (1853); and numerous Sunday-school books, besides contributions to journals.