Born in Cottonwood Falls, Chase Co., Kansas, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Enoch Hill
and Rachel Jane Kimberling
Sister of
Nancy Hill, Josephine Hill, John Hill, Wesley Ward Hill, Odus Grant Hill, Lela Hill, Mary Ellen Hill and Carl Enoch Hill
Wife of
James William Brooks
— married
22 Dec 1898 in Nickerson, Reno Co., Kansas, USA
Mother of
Earl Brooks, Rachel Irene (Brooks) Youngberg, Dorothea Katheryn Brooks and Eleanor Virginia (Brooks) Pringle
Died
at age 79
in Wichita, Sedgwick Co., Kansas, USA
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Biography
Ova was the eight child and fifth daughter of Rachel Jane (Kimberling) Hill and Enoch Hill. She was born May 8, 1883, near Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. She grew to womanhood near Nickerson, Kansas. She married James W. Brooks on December 22, 1898. James was a brother of Flora (Brooks) Hill, who married Odus Hill. Their entire married life was spent on the Brooks family farm west of Nickerson. Kansas. James William Brooks was born, lived and died on this farm. After the death of her husband on November 21, 1953, Ova Mae moved to Wichita, Kansas, to be close to two of her daughters who lived there. She died February 22, 1963 at Wichita, Kansas. She and her husband are both buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, west of Hutchinson, Kansas. Ova and "Bill" were the parents of five children.
Sources
FAG Memorial - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10296483
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ova 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 Ova:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ova 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 Ova:
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~3.12%
John Williams
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ageone
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~1.56%
John Williams :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jswill911
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Kristen Cottrill :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Barbara (Matthews) Smythe :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A959839 [compare], Ancestry member Bsmythe56
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