Mariah was born in 1900. The 1900 census enumerated Mariah's family on 29 June so she wasn't in the census.
1910: Where was Mariah?
1920 Lynn, Winston County, Alabama, United States Census[1]
Marion Ward Head M 25 Alabama
Marra Ward Wife F 19 Alabama
[Living two doors down from her parents in the 1920 census.]
1930 Lynn, Winston County, Alabama, United States Census[2]
Marion Ward Head M 34 Alabama
Mariah Ward Wife F 29 Alabama
Leon Ward Son M 9 Alabama
Marvin Ward Son M 7 Alabama
Arlee Ward Son M 5 Alabama
Ester Ward Daughter F 1 Alabama
William Barton Cousin M 14 Texas
1940 Election Precinct 3, Lynn, Winston County, Alabama, United States Census[3]
John M Ward Head M 45 Alabama
Maria Jane Ward Wife F 40 Alabama
Leon Ward Son M 19 Alabama
Marvin Ward Son M 18 Alabama
R Lee Ward Son M 15 Alabama
Esther Lee Ward Daughter F 11 Alabama
Bee G Ward Son M 9 Alabama
Minnie Lee Ward Daughter F 5 Alabama
Lonzo I Barton Father-in-law M 64 Alabama
Ulysses Richard Barton Brother-in-law M 21 Alabama
Mariah passed away in 1982. Burial was in the Sardis Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Winston County, Alabama.
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXDP-G4Z : accessed 6 September 2017), Marion Ward, Lynn, Winston, Alabama, United States; citing ED 130, sheet 3B, line 62, family 53, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 43; FHL microfilm 1,820,043.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3GPB-62M : accessed 6 September 2017), Marion Ward, Lynn, Winston, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 6A, line 22, family 84, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 53; FHL microfilm 2,339,788.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15K-8M8 : accessed 7 September 2017), Maria Jane Ward in household of John M Ward, Election Precinct 3, Winston, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-5, sheet 24A, line 14, family 371, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 90.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mariah 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 Mariah: