Lucy Elizabeth Sanders was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, on Dec 25, 1808 to William Thomas "Jaybird" Sanders and Elizabeth C "Betsy" Bellenfant Sanders. Lucy married Yelly about 1824, in Tennessee. By the 1850 Census she & Yelly were living in Giles County, Tennessee. Soon after the 1850 Census, they moved to Stone County, Missouri, where Yelly and Lucy subsequently died. Lucy's exact date of death is uncertain, but her will was probated at Stone County, Missouri, on Jul 29, 1858.
Family lore says that Yelly and Lucy are both buried at Cape Fair Cemetery, that their headstones are the 2 large unmarked stones beginning of row next to L D Bolen.http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostone/cemetery/capefair.html
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Source: FaGFind A Grave Index, database, FamilySearch, Repository: #R02, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVGB-4H7B : 11 July 2016), Lucy Elizabeth Sanders Bolen, 1858; Burial, Cape Fair, Stone, Missouri, United States of America, Cape Fair Cemetery; citing record ID 132994349, Find A Grave: Memorial #132994349
Acknowledgments
Sanders-9308 was created by Don Leuty through the import of Martin_2017-06-25.ged on Jun 25, 2017
Thank you to Linda Myhre for her post on Posted 10 May 2015
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lucy 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 Lucy: