New Documented Information - When Hattie was born, her birth mother died from childbirth fever. Her birthfather already had three other children. So she was carried for by a Bevins Aunt until she somehow came to her adoptive parents.
It has been passed down that Harriett (Hattie) Mae Wallace was dropped of on the door step of David Heigly/Heigley and his wife in the Mechanicsburg area. They were given the following: Surname - Bevin/Biven/Bivens? / Birthdate - May 24, 1879 / Place of Birth - Franklin County PA. Unsure if she was legally adopted or just raised. But the name she was give was Harriett Mae Heigley.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hattie 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 Hattie: