Mary was born in 1769. She passed away in 1836. [1]
Nelson married Mary Dodd on 9 Dec 1790 in Rockingham County, NC. She was the daughter of Allen Dodd and Mary___. Mary was known by the nickname, Polly and was born 14 Aug, 1769 and died May 29, 1836. She is named in her father's will. Space:Transcriptionof_the_Will_of_Allen_Dodd
Her sister Martha Dodd, known as Patty, married Ansel Fields, Nelson's brother. The above info and the names and dates for children were taken from the Bible record of Nelson and Mary Dodd Fields and is cited in the Fields, Whitesell, Dodd book written by Ruth Fields Lewis.
↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Moore Moore.
↑ "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900" Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=407236&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1768 Birth place: NC Marriage date: 1790 Marriage place: NC
Durbeck, Edward Francis, Jr. The Durbeck Ancestry, San Diego, CA, 1980
Dodd-2628 was created by Barbara Baker through the import of Fields gedcom.GED on Jul 26, 2015.
The Heritage of Rockingham County North Carolina (1983). Rodenbough, Gann, Carter, & Osborne. Rockingham County Historical Society, Inc. Hunter Publishing Company. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ISBN 0-89459-212-2. Library of Congress Catalogue Number 83-82327. p. 245.
Fields-Whitesell-Dodd Family history by Ruth Fields Lewis. p. 117, 118, & 119.
“My Maternal Ancestors” Compiled by Ruth Cobb Oliver (1987); Ruth Cobb Oliver and her mother did extensive genealogical research on this line. They traveled to archives across the United States gathering information which was documented/copied/compiled in a book "My Maternal Ancestors" in the Ashville, Alabama archives.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly 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 Polly: