Born in Kanawha District, Fayette County, West Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Millard Fillmore Adkins
and Lollie Dessie (Perry) Adkins
Sister of
Sadie Lee (Adkins) Ross [half]
Wife of
Lloyd Almos Standley
— married
about 1928 in Huntington, West Virginia
[children unknown]
Died
at age 82
in Huntington, West Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Mar 2014
This page has been accessed 143 times.
Biography
Mammaw was a fascinating person, one of the smartest people I have ever met. She grew up not knowing how to cook, but took the Betty Crocker Cookbook and taught herself to cook as a young married woman.
Sources
- The story about Mammaw teaching herself to cook is from my mother.
Is Dorothy your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy 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 Dorothy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy 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 Dorothy:
-
~0.78%
Douglas Bates
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member dougbates
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK76107
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Comments
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Rejected matches › Dorothy Margaret Atkins (1909-)
Featured National Park champion connections: Dorothy is 15 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 21 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 15 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 22 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 17 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 20 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.