(from the archived RCHC Web Site)

Teacher in the Public Schools at Rockwood.

Miss Rebecca Sanborn, who is principal of the overflow school at Rockwood, was born in Michigan in 1873, moving to Rockwood in ’82; graduating in the high school here in ’94. She began teaching the same year and has so continued without ceasing. Miss Sanborn makes teaching a continuous study and because of which she was given charge of the overflow school. Besides this popularity, she is universally admired outside of the school room.

Source: Knoxville Journal & Tribune, Sunday, 24 Apr 1898.

2025 addition:

Rebecca Martha Sanborn was born 16 December 1872 in Wyandotte City, Wayne County, Michigan, the daughter of Oscar H. Sanborn (born New Hampshire) and Elizabeth Thone (born Germany).  Rebecca died 12 May 1939 in Rockwood and was buried at the city cemetery there, according to her death certificate.

Rebecca‘s obituary in the Knoxville News-Sentinel on 13 May 1939:

Miss Rebecca Sanborn, 66, for 22 years a teacher at Detroit, died at her home here Friday.  Miss Sanborn retired about five years ago and had been a resident here and in St. Augustine, Fla.  Nine surviving sisters.  Burial was at Oak Grove.