Nancy (Poore) Pierce

Ancestors

Daughter of Emery Poore and Asselia Gaschet de Lisle (Strobhar) Lichliter

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Biography

Nancy Poore Pierce was deceased January 5, 2015. This data is contained in original certificate of death filed with the State of Maryland.

Mother, wife, home-maker, and community volunteer, Mrs. Pierce made her family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. During her lifetime, Nancy was a member of the League of Women Voters and participated in the original "Earth Day" movement in the early 1970s. Nancy was a founding member of the German-American Heritage Society and was awarded the German Federal Service Cross for her research of German-American history. Along with co-editing several books of her late husband, Frank H. Pierce III, Nancy also researched and published articles about artist Henry Ulke and Washington, D.C. architect, Adolph Cluss. Nancy and her late husband Frank were active and contributing members of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center in Salisbury, Maryland and the Washington Saengerbund. - See more at:

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My late mother, Nancy Pierce, after graciously agreeing to have her mtDNA tested, was amazed to find that she (as do I) carried the mitochondrial DNA of our Native grandmother, Anne Marie, of Port Royal, Nova Scotia. She was very pleased to meet other Acadian cousins from the same region of Nova Scotia when they traveled from Nova Scotia to Maryland for a visit a few years prior to her death. My son, my brother, my mother, a cousin originally from New Brunswick (Canada), and now, several other matrilineal descendants of Anne Marie Unknown all carry the same, exact, genetic signature of the A2f1a haplogroup.

Sources

• Original certificate of death for Nancy Poore Pierce, filed with the State of Maryland.
• North Carolina, Birth Indexes, 1800-2000: Roll Number: NCVR_B_C065_66002; Volume: 52; Page: 599
• Amerindian Ancestry out of Acadia Family Tree DNA Project link: [2]
• Revisiting Anne Marie: How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth-Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage by Marie Rundquist, Atlanta Book Printing, c. 2009, 2012. [3]
• Cajun By Any Other Name: Recovering the Lost History of a Family and a People by Marie Rundquist, Atlanta Book Printing, c. 2012. [4]
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for M. Asselia Rundquist and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test of her maternal line cousin Nancy (Poore) Pierce.