Bessie
Mae
Tillery
Born in Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Roscoe Tillery
and Mattie Haynes
Sister of
Mary Kathryn Tillery [half], Helen Tillery [half], Nancy Tillery [half], Frances Tillery [half] and William Ira Tillery [half]
Wife of
Eulis Delmont King
— married
27 Jan 1920 in Knox, Tennessee, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Roy Lee King, Billy Boyd King, [private daughter (1920s - 2000s)], Eulis Delmont King Jr, Bernice Jo (King) Wright, [private son (1930s - unknown)] and Joyce King
Died
at age 53
in Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Apr 2013
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Biography
Bessie was born in 1903. [1] Her parents divorced when she was three years old[2], and she was raised by her mother. [3]
She married Eulis King on 27 Jan 1920. [4][5]
She passed away in 1957 and is buried in Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery in Knoxville, TN. [6]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP4K-WL8 : accessed 24 March 2020), Eulis D King, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
- ↑ Knox county divorce index: Tillery, Samuel R Tillery, Mattie docket 5275 Circuit-1 May 17, 1906 Nov 23, 1906
- ↑ Mattie Haynes Tillery and Bessie Tillery appear in the household with her uncle Alfred Haynes in 1920. "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN5L-Y2B : accessed 28 March 2020), Bessie Tillery in household of Alfred L Haynes, Knoxville Ward 11, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 97, sheet 1A, line 39, family 12, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1749; FHL microfilm 1,821,749.
- ↑ Knox County Marriage Index, 1901-1950, accessed 23 March 2020. http://engagedpatrons.org/database/KnoxMarriage/Brief.cfm?theStartRow=61&Term=&Browse=&FirstName=e&LastName=king&Sex=Groom&Month=&Day=&Year=&Advanced=Y
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP4K-WL8 : accessed 24 March 2020), Eulis D King, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 March 2020), memorial page for Bessie May Tillery King (20 Aug 1903–27 Jul 1957), Find A Grave Memorial no. 76632222, citing Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Spanky (contributor 47039966) .
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Bob Moon and his fourth cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Mattie Haynes parents, their ggg-grandparents John F Haynes and Sarah Matlock. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 4th–6th Cousin, Shared DNA: 23 cM across 2 segments.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Catherine Rivera for creating WikiTree profile Tillery-562 through the import of Tillery Update 2012.ged on Apr 4, 2013.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie 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 Bessie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie 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 Bessie:
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~12.50%
Bob Moon
:
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