Martha was the daughter of Susannah (Shoults) and Elijah Wease. She was living in Jefferson County with her parents when she was ten years old.
In 1858, Martha married Jacob Shoults, the son of her mother's cousin.
Sources
1850 Census, Merrimac Township, Jefferson County, Missouri.
Missouri Marriages, Jefferson County, September 1849-March 1871: "Jacob M. Schultz and Martha Wease married on 3 June 1858 by John Wease, JP at Jefferson County, Missouri."
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha: