Rebecca Cox Jackson married Samuel S. Jackson but got divorced after he failed to teach her how to read and write and later on met she met her lifelong partner Rebecca Perot.
She married Samuel S. Jackson and worked as a seamstress until she had a religious awakening during a thunderstorm in 1830. She got divorced after her husband failed to teach her to read and write, and later realized she was able to do both anyway. Around this time she met her lifelong companion Rebecca Perot. 
