Esther Ward was born on April 19, 1777 in Westmorland, New Brunswick.[1] She was the daughter of Nehemiah Ward and Susanna Salisbury. She married Ezra Barnes on 31 Mar 1796 in Sackville, New Brunswick.[2].
Ezra died in 1815. On the 1820 Census of Westmorland, there's a "Widow Barnes" listed in Sackville with 8 children.[3] This is likely Esther. She married Josiah Hicks, also a widow with a large family, on April 12, 1827. In 1851, they were living with Josiah's children Asenath and Eliphalet, and Eliphalet's wife and children.[4]
Esther was mentioned on a memorial in Four Corners Burying Ground, Upper Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada with a death date of 1851.[5]
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Memorial page for Esther Ward Barnes (1777-1851), citing Four Corners Burying Ground, Upper Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada; Maintained by G (contributor 49058107).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Esther 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 Esther:
Ward-23029 and Ward-10513 appear to represent the same person because: Same birth date, same husband. Although death dates are different, neither has a source attached. Is there evidence that she lived to 108?