Her first husband was John Stepp, who died circa 1750.
Rev Henry William Gaines married Mariah Woods Stepp[1]
Mariah passed away in 1770 and is buried at the Gaines Family Cemetery, Ware Shoals, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA. [2]
Research Notes
Mariah Wood was born in 1735. She passed away in 1770 or 1789. Her first husband was John Stepp, who died about 1750. After his death she married Henry Gaines in 1752, Culpeper County, Virginia. Mariah and Henry had at least five children: Thomas, Humphrey, Lucretia (Lucy), Bettie, and Molly. According to Find a Grave, Mariah died about 1770, however no source has been found of the exact death date.
Sources
↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
"History of the Gaines Family, One Line from 1620 to the Present Time, 1918" by L.P. Gaines, Adairsville, Georgia. (Revised edition in 1973 by Kathryn Gaines Korstian.
Residence date: 1790 Residence place: Newberry, South Carolina, United States
"The Bruce Web" by Dr. Thomas Allen Bruce
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mariah 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 Mariah:
Wood-29592 and Stepp-1247 do not represent the same person because: Stepp-1247 is incorrect because Maariah was born Mariah Wood and not Stepp. Her first husband was Stepp. He died and she married Gaines. Some clean-up and research needs to be done before the merge can go forward, I believ.
Stepp-1247 and Wood-29592 appear to represent the same person because: with all of the explanations that her name should be Wood and that her first husband is Stepp it is not clear why this merge was rejected Can you take a second look? There are duplicate daughters that need merging.
Stepp-252 and Wood-29592 appear to represent the same person because: same husband. Her maiden name is Woods, her first husband was Stepp, therefore, we should merge into Wood.
Woods-6642 and Stepp-252 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband same children. She was married an additional time and that is I got the name wrong