Sue (Smith) Knifley
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Biography
Sue (Smith) Knifley was born in Kentucky.
Sue (Smith) Knifley is a graduate of the US Black Heritage Project's PATH.
Sue (Smith) Knifley is a member of the Appalachia Project (Central Appalachia Team).
Sue (Smith) Knifley is a member of the Kentucky Project.
Sue has completed the Profile Improvement Project's Voyage
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2022
Sue (Smith) Knifley is a member of the US Southern Colonies Project (Colony of Virginia Team).
Sue (Smith) Knifley is a member of the US Civil War: War Between the States Project.
I have lived in Kentucky all of my life except for about 2 years when my husband was stationed at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach.
I am a retired accountant, who fell in love with researching my ancestors while helping my daughter with a school project. With the help of other local genealogists, I had researched my lines back to when they migrated into Kentucky after the Revolutionary War.
In 2019, I took a DNA test which was a game changer for my research. I met a cousin who was a member of the Jamestown Society. He shared his research with me and lead me to my gateway ancestor, George Reade. I was also able to break down one of my Smith brick walls that tied my to another of the gateway ancestors.
Research Interests
- My research interest is mainly in Central Kentucky. I am currently working on adding profiles for the cemeteries in Taylor and Adair counties especially
- Palestine Cemetery in Taylor County where many of my ancestors are buried. (240 of 480 profile have been added).
- Roley Cemetery in Adair County, where my husband's ancestors were buried. (182 of 478 profiles added).
- Working on adding profiles from the 1850 Taylor County, Kentucky census and identifying those who were slave owners.
- Working with the Appalachian Project to add profiles for my research counties
Ancestors
- My ancestors settled in the Central Kentucky region soon after the Revolutionary War. They migrated to Kentucky from Virginia and Maryland.
My Surnames
- Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
- Anderson
- Binn, Bowles
- Calloway, Carmack , Cash , Cave , Chewning , Colvin , Cookson , Cowherd
- Davis, Davis , DeJarnette , Durham , Durrett
- Ewing
- Fuqua (Fouquet)
- Gardiner
- Hanks, Hawk , Hay , Hazard , Hill
- Kirtley, Knott
- Lively (Lyfolly)
- Mardis, McCullough , Miskell , Mitchell , Moore
- Newton
- Patterson, Pemberton
- Rafferty, Reade , Richeson , Roots , Russell
- Shipp, Sims , Smith , Smith , Smith , Story , Story
- Taliaferro
- Wilson (Willson) , Wise , Wren , Wright
Brick Walls
- Eliza Ann Born in Canada, brought to the United States by John McCullough. Her parentage is unknown.
Sue (Smith) Knifley Participated in the 2023 US Black Heritage Project Connecting Challenge.
Sue is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the Connect-a-Thon Challenge, July 2022
Sue Ellen participated in the July 2022 Connect-a-Thon with Team Virginia, who won 1st place!
Sue (Smith) Knifley participated in the April 2022 US Civil War Project Connecting Challenge.
Sue is a member of the Virginia Connectors Team for the Connect-a-Thon Challenge, January 2022
Sue (Smith) Knifley participated with Team Virginia during the 2021 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 370 previously unsourced profiles. We added 6,673 sources & finished in 1st place!
DNA
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Sue (Smith) Knifley and Private, her mother (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent, based on sharing 3480 cM across 23 segments.
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Sue (Smith) Knifley and Private, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are John Hay and Mary Wilson, the great great grandparents of both Sue (Smith) Knifley and Private. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd - 3rd cousin, based on sharing 197 cM across 13 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Sue (Smith) Knifley and CM, her 2nd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are David Mitchell and Eliza McCullough, the great grandparents of both Sue (Smith) Knifley and CM. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousin, based on sharing 209 cM across 11 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Sue (Smith) Knifley and Private, her 3rd cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Owsley Smith and Elizabeth Richeson, the great great grandparents of both Sue (Smith) Knifley and Private. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 4th - 6th cousin, based on sharing 27 cM across 2 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Sue (Smith) Knifley and RR, her 3rd cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Jonthan Rafferty and Sarah Mardis, the great great grandparents of both Sue (Smith) Knifley and RR. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd - 3rd cousin, based on sharing 191 cM across 11 segments.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Sue Smith at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Sue's formal name
- full middle name (E.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sue or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sue or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Sue (Smith) Knifley: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup U5b1b1, FTDNA kit #939177, MitoYDNA ID T18737 [compare]
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100.00%
100.00%
Sue (Smith) Knifley:
AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #939177
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MyHeritage DNA
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Jean (Sharp) Esposito
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A589639 [compare], Ancestry member JeanCarolSharp
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~0.39%
Allen Mardis :
AncestryDNA
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Sue:
- Sue Knifley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 16, 2022.
- Sue Knifley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 5, 2021.
Featured National Park champion connections: Sue is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 17 degrees from George Catlin, 15 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 23 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 19 degrees from Stephen Mather, 21 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 24 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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I am like you; completely stumped where our connection is and I am just as far from finding the parents of my brick wall as ever. Glad you are here, we may one day find the connection.
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The profiles you work on look wonderful. Keep it coming :)
Michel
Minimum segment threshold size to be included in total = 25 SNPs Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 5.0 cM Mismatch-bunching Limit will be adjusted dynamically to 60 percent of the segment threshold size for any given segment.
Chr B37 Start Pos'n B37 End Pos'n Centimorgans (cM) SNPs 2 130,662,519 134,961,089 6 373 16 20,400,969 24,082,049 5.3 269 17 9,164,548 11,387,425 8.6 366 20 6,764,536 8,810,049 5.2 296
Largest segment = 8.6 cM
Total Half-Match segments (HIR) 25.1cM (0.7 Pct) Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6
Sue (Smith) Knifley and Walter Smith are both descendants of Walter Tailboys.
1. Sue is the daughter of [private mother] [unknown confidence] 2. [Private] is the daughter of Clifford Hay (1892-1978) [unknown confidence] 3. Clifford is the son of Anna Lizzie Bowles (1866-1941) [unknown confidence] 4. Anna is the daughter of David James Bowles (1838-1917) [unknown confidence] 5. David is the son of Mary Elvira Roots (1814-aft.1880) [unknown confidence] 6. Mary is the daughter of Elizabeth Smith (1790-aft.1860) [unknown confidence] 7. Elizabeth is the daughter of Mary Fuqua (abt.1770-aft.1832) [unknown confidence] 8. Mary is the daughter of Joseph Fuqua (aft.1745-1793) [unknown confidence] 9. Joseph is the son of William Fuqua (abt.1688-1761) [unknown confidence] 10. William is the son of Jane (Eyres) Fuquay (1671-1741) [unknown confidence] 11. Jane is the daughter of Joseph Eyres (1638-1677) [unknown confidence] 12. Joseph is the son of William (Eyre) of Neston (1618-) [unknown confidence] 13. William is the son of William (Eyre) of Neston MP (1584-1663) [unknown confidence] 14. William is the son of Anne (Baynton) Eyre (1557-abt.1587) [unknown confidence] 15. Anne is the daughter of Agnes (Reese) Baynton (abt.1526-1574) [unknown confidence] 16. Agnes is the daughter of Catherine (Howard) Daubeney (abt.1499-abt.1554) [unknown confidence] 17. Catherine is the daughter of Agnes (Tilney) Howard (1477-bef.1545) [unknown confidence] 18. Agnes is the daughter of Eleanor (Tailboys) Tilney (-1502) [unknown confidence] 19. Eleanor is the daughter of Walter Tailboys (abt.1391-1444) [unknown confidence] This makes Walter the 17th great grandfather of Sue.
1. Walter is the son of George Smith Sr. [confident] 2. George is the son of Walter Wilson Smith (1889-1971) [confident] 3. Walter is the son of Anderson W Smith (1860-1929) [confident] 4. Anderson is the son of Christopher Columbus Smith (1837-1915) [confident] 5. Christopher is the son of Newman Smith (abt.1804-1867) [confident] 6. Newman is the son of Abner Wilson Smith (1781-1872) [confident] 7. Abner is the son of George Smith (1747-1838) [confident] 8. George is the son of Robert Smith (1733-bef.1777) [unknown confidence] 9. Robert is the son of Mildred (Reade) Smith (abt.1685-1754) [confident] 10. Mildred is the daughter of Robert Reade (abt.1644-bef.1712) [confident] 11. Robert is the son of George Reade Esq. (1608-bef.1671) [confident] 12. George is the son of Mildred (Windebank) Reade (abt.1580-aft.1630) [confident] 13. Mildred is the daughter of Frances (Dymoke) Windebanke (abt.1539-aft.1612) [confident] 14. Frances is the daughter of Anne (Tailboys) Carr (abt.1510-) [confident] 15. Anne is the daughter of George Tailboys (abt.1467-1538) [confident] 16. George is the son of Robert Tailboys (abt.1451-1495) [confident] 17. Robert is the son of William Tailboys (abt.1416-1464) [confident] 18. William is the son of Walter Tailboys (abt.1391-1444) [unknown confidence] This makes Walter the 16th great grandfather of Walter.
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