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Biography
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Middle name may have been Wadkins.
Daughter of Capt. George L and Jane (Knox) Pettus. Sometimes called Sarah.
Ancestry.com, "York County, Any SC Ratterree Kinfolk out there?": "Susan Smith, 1st wife of John Cheek Smith, a retired teacher who was killed by a train. Their daughter Jane Pettus Smith married James Ratterree as his first wife. They had 10 children. He gave children's names if you want them. One of the children was Elizabeth Ratterree married her first cousin Jasper Ratterree."
Also: "George and Jane Pettus had eleven known children, three sons and eight daughters. The sons were George, Jr.(m. (1) Mary E. Person, (2) Jane Glover); Stephen (m. Eliza J. Reid) and John D. O. K. Pettus (m. Violet Wilson). The daughters were Mary (m. William Burton), Jane (m. William Goodridge/Goodrich), Cynthia (m. Samuel B. Knox), Rebecca W. (m. James Knox), Elizabeth (m. William G. Harris), Susannah (m. John Cheek Smith), Sarah, (m. Nathaniel Harris, Jr.), and Ann Dillard (m. (1) Dr. William Harris Clawson, (2) John Kimbrell)."
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Susannah 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 Susannah: