Effie was born in Knox Co., IL on June 02, 1866, the daughter of James Allen Adams and Amelia Mariah Jones and a granddaughter of Elizabeth Chenoweth Adams. She moved with her parents to Nebraska andmarried at the age of 17 to James Wesley Reisinger in York Co., NE on December 25, 1883. They had 17 children. Effie died on September 11, 1939 at age 73 and is buried in Bradshaw, NE. James lived tothe age of 89, dying on May 28, 1949 in Grafton, Fillmore Co., NE."[1]
Name: James W. Reisinger Birth Date: 1860 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Age: 23 Spouse's Name: Effie L. Adams Spouse's Birth Date: 1866 Spouse's Birthplace: Illinois Spouse's Age: 17 Event Date: 25 Dec 1883 Event Place: York County, Nebraska Marital Status: Single Spouse's Marital Status: Single Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00820-5 , System Origin: Nebraska-EASy , GS Film number: 2069861 , Reference ID: BKB P226. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5ZH-B7M
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 May 2020), memorial page for Effie Leonora Adams Reisinger (2 Jun 1866–11 Sep 1939), Find a Grave Memorial no. 83943385, citing Plainfield Cemetery, Bradshaw, York County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by weston04 (contributor 47246634) .
Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Joel Simmons and his first cousin 2x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are their great grandparents, James Wesley Reisinger and Effie Leonora Adams. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd-3rd Cousins, based on sharing 265 cM across 13 segments.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Effie 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 Effie: