Margaret was born about 1814 in Tennessee
[1]
to George Grimes and Eurydice Gardner. She lived in Texas with her family during the time it was a republic.
[2]
She came to Texas with her parents from Tennessee in 1927 and shortly afterwards, was married the first time at age 14 to Robert Ray. In 1932, she married again, to James Bell in Washington County, TX.
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Sources
↑ 1.01.1
Meischen, Betty Smith, From Jamestown To Texas : A History of Some Early Pioneers of Austin County, Texas The Colonial Capitol of Texas (United States: Xlibris Corporation, September 2010), page 94.
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Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Citizens of the Republic of Texas (Dallas, TX: Texas State Genealogical Society, 1979), p440.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret: