Born in Twiggs, Georgia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Hardy Harrell
and Susanna (Keener) Harrell
Sister of
Edna (Harrell) Harp, Green B Harrell, William Hardy Harrell, Charlotte Harrell, Sarah Harrell, Rachel (Harrell) Lyon, Mariah Harrell, Elizabeth Harrell, Nancy (Herrell) Hearne, John W Harrell, Susan (Harrell) Park and Jessie Harrell
Wife of
Loderick William Matthews Sr.
— married
18 Aug 1818 in Texanna, Jackson, Texas, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Lucinda (Matthews) Wrench, Benjamin Rush Matthews, Louisiana Suphrona (Matthews) Lesueur, Missouri Elizabeth (Matthews) Cochran, Loderick William Matthews Jr., Mary Sauls Matthews, Erastus Allen Matthews and Dade Lewis Matthews
Died
at age 75
in Texanna, Jackson, Texas, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Nov 2014
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Contents |
Biography
Mary was born in 1798. Mary Harrell ... She passed away in 1874. [1]
Name
- Name: Mary /Harrell/[2]
Sources
- ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Gretchen Steele, Friday, January 16, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.
- ↑ Source: #S00035 Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=27578992&pid=564
- Source: S00035 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R00003 NOTE Ancestry Family Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
- Jackson County, Texas Deed Book E, E-421, Registered at Milledgeville, Georgia, Oct 13, 1856; Stephen Weathers and wife: Lucinda Weathers (county of Talbert, State of Georgia), Heirs at Law of Loderick Matthews sold their inheritance for $10 to (his widow) Mary Matthews, pg E-421. Jessie N. Pumphrey and Mary S. Pumphrey (Matthews daughters) did the same; pg E-422. Dudley Cochran and Missouri E. Cochran [another Matthews daughter] also sold their part for $10, County of Hempstead, Arkansas, August 20, 1856, pg E-417. Benjamin Rush Matthews and Loderick William Matthews and their wives sell their inheritance to Mary Matthews for $10; filed in Arkansas, County of Union, March 9th, 1857 at 9 am; pg E418. Mary Matthews sold the land obtained from her children to pay a debt to E. M. Glenn, pg E-423. (Transcribed by Bill Matthews in 1963 from the actual deed books in Jackson Co, Texas)
Acknowledgments
- Harrell-1050 was started by Stacy Penman through the import of Ellis - Rider _ Johnson - Craft 2014.1.ged on Nov 2, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary 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 Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary 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 Mary:
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~6.25%
Bill Matthews
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member billmatthews158
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Virginia Clary :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member virginia_clary
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~0.78%
Kevin Wilks :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A827483 [compare], Ancestry member KHWilks
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I am proposing a change to Mary Harrell's profile - which is to change her parents from Simon and Silvia to Hardy Harrell and Susanna Keener. My reasons are the following:
1) Several years ago I received an message from a lady researching the Harrell line asserting that Simon and Silvia's daughter Mary was not the same person who had married my 2nd great-grandfather Loderick Matthews. To my embarrassment, I was very busy with work at that time and failed to act. As a result many of the family lines on Ancestry that include Loderick and Mary Matthews now also have her connected to Simon.
2) As Ancestry has expanded its support for tracking and matching DNA results I've been exploring these results and in particular the descendants of Hardy and Susanna Harrell. This has led to some interesting results:
Looking at the DNA Matches from my Ancestry tree for children or descendants of Hardy Harrell and Susanna Keener I find the following for their children:
1) William - 5 DNA matches - 1794-1835 2) Sarah - 12 DNA matches - 1795-1845 3) Rachel - 18 DNA matches - 1797-1971 4) Mary - 34 DNA matches - 1798-1874 - (my 2nd great-grandmother) 5) Elizabeth - 7 DNA matches - 1800-1844 6) Nancy - 60 DNA matches - 1803-1901 7) John - 9 DNA matches - 1805-1880 8) Susan - 22 DNA Matches - 1807-1891 9) Rebecca - 4 DNA matches - 1809-1886 10) Green B - 13 DNA matches - 1816-1888 11) Malinda - 8 DNA matches - 1820-1872
3) I believe that these matches further support my proposal that the parents of Mary Harrell be changed. 4) I also noticed that in Susanna's profile that the editor indicates that there is a possibility that Mary Harrell is Mary Matthews by showing a Find A Grave link to one of her grave markers (she has two) and that photo was taken by me almost 20 years ago. 5) In addition, Susanna's profile has a reference to the family Bible that belonged to a sister of Mary - ref: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/walker/bibles/bb32mosespar.txt
Your comments are appreciated.