Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (maiden name Blake formerly Burke) is the mother of Cliff Barnes, Pamela Barnes Ewing and Katherine Wentworth. Sometime during World War II, a barely literate 17-year-old, Rebecca Blake, started dating the much older former oil wildcatter, Digger Barnes. Digger had a drinking problem, and was still very bitter at his former best friend and business partner, Jock Ewing, who had married the love of Digger's life, Ellie Southworth, as well as later making millions of dollars off of the oil business, while Digger was left with nothing. While Rebecca was still 17, she got pregnant with Digger's child, and they married shortly afterwards. She gave birth to their son, Tyler, but Tyler died just six months after being born. Their second child was a son named Cliff. Their t