Elizabeth
Pearl
"Eliza"
Pendergrass
formerly Smith
Born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Franklin Smith
and Mary Deliah (Sampson) Smith
Sister of
John E. Smith, Benjamin Lark Smith, Martha Ellen (Smith) Hale, Gertrude Smith, Robert Lee Smith, Hester Anne (Smith) Moore, Billy Smith and Lonas Edward Smith
Wife of
John Herman Pendergrass
— married
18 Jun 1908 in Bledsoe, Tennessee, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Eva Lois (Pendergrass) Hale
Died
at age 46
in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Jan 2014
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Biography
Elizabeth "Eliza" Pearl Smith was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA in 1892 to Benjamin F. Smith and his wife, Mary D. Sampson Smith.
Eliza married John Herman Pendergrass and had at least two children with him. The marriage record calls her "Pearlie" Smith A lifelong Tennessean, she died in Bledsoe County in 1938 Herman and Eliza's children were: Blake PENDERGRASS Eva Lois PENDERGRASS Hale (1910-1947) Flossy PENDERGRASS Ethel Lenor PENDERGRASS Riggs (1919-1996) Claude PENDERGRASS Cilvester Clide PENDERGRASS (1923-2011) Hester Lorene PENDERGRASS Cappel (1925–1985) These names were given to Sharon McCormack by Herman's second wife. Dates provided by Herman and Eliza's findagrave pages.
Sources
See also:
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lyndasmith395&id=I8223
- "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8RD-TXC : 11 February 2018), Herman Pendergrass and Pearlie Smith, 18 Jun 1908; citing Bledsoe, Tennessee, reference p14; FHL microfilm 593,005.
With thanks to Wendell Walker: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45468887
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth:
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~12.50%
Robin Smith
:
23andMe
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~3.12%
Latisha Smith :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TF7829880 [compare], Ancestry member lrstupka
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