Born in Augusta County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Kerr
and Lucy (Pickens) Kerr
Sister of
Jacob Gillespie [half], William Gillespie Jr. [half], James Gillespie [half], Matthew Gillespie Jr. [half], Margaret Gillespie [half], William Kerr, Jane (Kerr) Hinds, James Kerr, Barbara Kerr, Lucy (Kerr) Allison, Martha Kerr, Isabella (Kerr) Hinds, Elizabeth (Kerr) McClure, Letitia (Kerr) Marrs and Mary (Kerr) Peters
Wife of
George McCown
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
John McCune
— married
1768 in Augusta, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
John Carr McCown, Francis McCown, James McCown, Sarah McCown, Mary McCown, George McCown, Samuel McCown, William McCown, Roger McCown, Margaret McCown, Lewis McCune and Franklin McCue
Died about
at about age 89
in Coles, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Mar 2013
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Biography
- Margaret, daughter of John Kerr, was baptized on 2 Aug 1747 at Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church in Augusta County, Virginia.[1]
McCown Family History by Diane L. Poole, page 13: Margaret is supposed to have gone to Coles Cnty Ill with her daughter Sarah Moore where she died in 1836 and is buried in the Old Baptist Cemetery, six miles from Neoga, Ill.
Sources
- ↑ Source:Craig, John. List of Baptisms by Rev. John Craig, Augusta County, Virginia, 1740-1749
- Family Research by Laura Sullivan Phillips & Arline Sullivan Byrd
- McCown Family History by Diane L. Poole. page 13.
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Cathy Ritter for creating WikiTree profile Kerr-1559 through the import of McKinney Family Tree - 2012-04-24 13-50-07.ged on Feb 27, 2013.
- Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Cathy and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret 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 Margaret:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret 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 Margaret:
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~1.56%
Kimberley Phillips
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member 1951kap
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~1.56%
CR Cunningham :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A512998 [compare]
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
Michael McCown :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.78%
Phairabe Estes :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Nancy (Robertson) Wotring :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T332593 [compare], FTDNA kit #841085
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~0.39%
Susan McKinney :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Edna Martin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A121212 [compare], Ancestry member RJLeffler
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Kerr-9456 and Kerr-1559 appear to represent the same person because: same birth, parents and husband
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