Mary was born about 1843 in Tennessee according to the 1850 census for Jackson County, Tennessee where she appears as a seven-year-old in the household of George W. and Elizabeth Hale.[1]
By the time of the 1860 census the family had moved to Osage Township, Carroll County, Arkansas.[2] Mary E Hale is 16.
George and Elizabeth’s daughter Mary may be the 26-year-old Mary E Hale living with the Sanders family in 1870 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, but she is not easy to identify.[3]
Sources
↑ Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: District 17, Jackson, Tennessee; Roll: 885; Page: 221A. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8054&h=6273468&indiv=try. citing Mary, age 7, in the Household of George W Hale.
↑ Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: District 17, Jefferson, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1540; Page: 550A; Family History Library Film: 553039. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7163&h=12027243&indiv=try.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Mary:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hale-7189 She is my great grandmother, but all I personally knew about her before research was that she is a "Hale".