Born in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Rudolph Fox Jr
and Mary (Slater) Fox
Sister of
Mary (Fox) Tibbets
Wife of
Fletcher Burnight
— married
8 Mar 1840 in Indianapolis IN
Descendants 
Mother of
Erastus Burnight, Leroy Herman Burnight, Lura (Burnight) Bibbey, Victoria (Burnight) Starks, Alice Geneva (Burnight) Wilson, Frances Alwilda (Burnight) Cote, Joel Meeker Burnight, Celeste Elizabeth Minette (Burnight) Kramar and Franklin Benjamin Burnight
Died
at age 61
in Monticello, Jones, Iowa, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Oct 2015
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Biography
Melissa was born July 20, 1820 in Columbus, Ohio to Rudolph Fox and Mary Slater . She passed away February 13, 1882 in Monticello, Iowa.
Sources
- Marriage - "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFX7-N2N : 13 January 2020), Melissa Fox in entry for Fletcher Burnight, 1840.
- 1850 US Census - "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ46-B6S : Mon Jul 17 19:37:15 UTC 2023), Entry for Fletcher Burnight and Malissa A Burnight, 1850.
- Memorial - "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGZ-XVTH : 17 July 2020), Melissa Ann Fox Burnight, 1882; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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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%
Stephen Kramar
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M152907 [compare]
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~3.12%
Suzy (Hintz) Gonzales :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A971436 [compare], Ancestry member gonzfam4
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~0.78%
Pauline Layton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member playton124
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