Born in King George County, Virginia Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Francis Thornton
and Alice (Savage) Thornton
Sister of
Elizabeth (Thornton) Gibson, Sarah Alice (Thornton) Taliaferro, William Thornton, Francis Thornton II, Rowland Thornton, Anne (Thornton) Morgan and Anthony Thornton I
Wife of
William Strother III
— married
2 Apr 1698 in St. Pauls, Richmond County, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Francis Strother, William Strother IV, Benjamin Strother, George Strother and Anthony Strother Sr.
Died
at age 49
in Williamsburg, James County, Virginia Colony
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This person is an ancestor of President Zachary Taylor 12th US President
Biography
:Birth: Apr. 2, 1678
- King George County, Virginia
- Daughter of Francis and Alice (Savage) Thornton, Sr.
- Death: Aug. 1, 1727
- King George County, Virginia
- Wife of William Strother, III ~ married 1694, King George Co., VA
- Their children were ...
- William Strother V (m. Margaret Watts)
- Francis Strother (m. Susannah Dabney)
- Benjamin Strother (m. Mrs. Mary Mason Fitzhugh)
- Anthony Strother (m. 1st., Bethland Storke and 2nd., Mary James)
- Elizabeth Strother (m. prob. Robert Kay
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #51026367
- Raulston & Russell Genealogy by Barbara Gonce Clepper, 1986
- Publications of the Southern History Association, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 151-153, 165, Internet Archive (Digital Library).
- Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, 1927, Vol. 25, No. 75, p. 294, JSTOR (Digital Library).
- Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 403.
- Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 229, 315.
- Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 513, 572.
- Strother, Edward L., The Strother Family: 300 Years from Virginia to Louisiana, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (2002), 6, 9-11, FamilySearch.org (Online Database).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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:
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~0.78%
Maurice Ewing
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A745222 [compare], Ancestry member dgewing
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~0.78%
Ethel Ewing :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PQ8304100 [compare], Ancestry member dgewing
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~0.39%
Robert Moody :
23andMe, GEDmatch T211423 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T211423 [compare], Ancestry member rwmoody
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T211423 [compare], FTDNA kit #565
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~0.39%
Terri Taylor :
23andMe, GEDmatch A159006 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Taylortyler
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~0.39%
Hope (Murray) Hiatt :
23andMe, GEDmatch RZ227042C1 [compare], yourDNAportal HOP75292226
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch RZ227042C1 [compare], yourDNAportal HOP75292226, Ancestry member hopehiatt28
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch RZ227042C1 [compare], yourDNAportal HOP75292226
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~0.39%
Jeff Lewis :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JeffreyLewis61
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~0.39%
Augusta (Alger) Prince :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch BY3843687 [compare]
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~0.39%
Jean Settle :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jeaniesettle
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~0.39%
DG Ewing :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A313500 [compare], Ancestry member dgewing
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A313005 [compare], FTDNA kit #493570
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch A313500 [compare]
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- Advice before merging these pre-1700 Thornton profiles? Dec 17, 2019.
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