Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn)
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Rachel Davies was a Welsh-born lecturer and evangelist preacher who emigrated to the United States. She was the first woman minister ordained in the state of Wisconsin. Rahel o Fôn is the Welsh Bardic
Rachel Evans Paynter Davies "Rahel o Fôn" circa 1870
Watertown, Wisconsin
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Watertown is a city in Jefferson and Dodge counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 22,926 at the 2020 census, of which 14,674 were in Jefferson County and 8,252 were in Dodge Count
Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn)
…Wisconsin, she joined the Calvinistic Methodists. While in Wisconsin, she met and married Edward Davies, a prosperous wagonmaker who had emigrated to Watertown, Wisconsin, from Tregaron, Wales. After her husband died, she was ordained a minister at the age of 44, and carried on preaching all her life. She returned to…
Main Street Commercial Historic District
The downstream of Watertown's two dams, with a portion of downtown in the background
Watertown's Octagon House
Watertown River Walk