Melissa
Sue
"Puss"
Douglass
Born in Mississippi, USA
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Wellington Wood Jr
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Amanda (Douglass) Cummings, Tobe Cummings, Mary Elizabeth Wood, Cleveland Wood, Elizabeth Wood, Billie Wood and Walter Wood
Died
at age 89
in Wolf, Seminole, Oklahoma, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Jun 2016
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Biography
Melisa was a biracial slave who took her owner's last name. I have found descendants of her owner and our DNA does not match. Please get in touch if you are a DNA match so we can try and find our connection.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melissa 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 Melissa:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melissa 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 Melissa:
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~6.25%
~25.00%
Tommy Ranells 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A125355 [compare], Ancestry member TR
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