Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rachel Davies ("Rahel o Fôn") (1846 1915) was a Welsh born lecturer and evangelist preacher who emigrated to the USA. She was the first woman minister ordained in the state of Wisconsin. Rahel o Fôn is the Welsh Bardic name for Rachel of Anglesey . She started preaching with the Baptists at the age of 20. She was later invited on a preaching tour of the United States and when living in Ixonia she joined the Calvinistic Methodists. While in Wisconsin, she met and married Edward Davies a prosperous wagon maker 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.