Orpha was raised as a Quaker but was dismissed for marrying contrary to discipline when she married Henry Mead.
Sources
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy gives birth date and parents' names.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 June 2018), memorial page for Orpha Dodd Mead (18 Oct 1811–23 Nov 1905), Find A Grave: Memorial #78325931, citing Knob Cemetery, Archers Fork, Washington County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Bill Rushin (contributor 47346746). [The memorial page includes a picture of a gravestone.]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Orpha 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 Orpha: