When Mathilda A Pierce was born in September 1848 in Illinois, USA, her father, Brinkley, was 36, and her mother, Phoebe, was 39. She married Isaac S Johnson on January 24, 1871, in Ogle, Illinois, USA.
According to the 1880 US Census for Flagg, Ogle, Illinois, thirty-one-year-old Matilda was the wife of Isaac Johnson, a farmer of the Flagg area. Matilda, mother of Phoeba A., 7, and Winfield, 6 Months, was born about 1849 in Illinois. Matilda passed away after 1880.
Sources
The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing A History of the County---Its Cities, Towns, Etc., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Map of Ogle County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., ILLUSTRATED, Chicago, H. F. Kett & Co., Times Building, 1878, p. 668.
1880 United States Census, Flagg, Ogle, Illinois, Family History Film 1254239, NA Film Number T9-0239, page 88A.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matilda 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 Matilda: