Missouri Alabama Hanks was born c.1847 in Mississippi to George Washington Hanks and Ann Selina Williams. She lived with them and a number of siblings in Panola in 1850.[1] In 1860 they lived in Yalobusha, Mississippi.[2]
Missouri married Stanford Stephen Smith, a farmer who would later become a minister, in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi on June 7, 1866,[3] and by 1770 they had two sons.[4] These are their known children:
Some time after her husband's death in Mississippi in 1909, Missouri moved to Arkansas, possibly to live with her eldest son.
Missouri Hanks Smith died in Phillips, Arkansas in 1916 and is buried in Trenton Cemetery in Trenton, Arkansas, Phillips. County.[6]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LX-NH2 : 12 April 2016), Abahamra [sic] Hanks in household of George W Hanks, Panola county, Panola, Mississippi, United States; citing family 239, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6G6-ZFP : 14 December 2017), Missouri A Hankes [sic] in entry for George W Hankes, 1860.
↑ "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28F-QJM : 10 February 2018), Stanford S. Smith and M. A. Hanks, 07 Jun 1866; citing Tallahatchie,Mississippi; FHL microfilm 894,879.
↑ 4.04.14.2 "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSR-RJ4 : 12 April 2016), Alabama Smith in household of Sanford Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 28, family 218, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,248.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Missouri 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 Missouri: