Born in Macon, North Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jeremiah Mcnally Dills
and Rachel Lucinda (Payne) Dills
Sister of
Henry Nelson Dills, Asa Merida Dills, Issidona (Dills) Sweatman, Thomas Satterfield Dills, Lemuel Davis Dills, Archibald Emerson Dills, Cora (Dills) Neal, Willie Dills [half], Callie Carolina Dills [half], Florence (Dills) Cloer [half], Hezekiah Jeremiah Dills [half], Margaret Cordelia (Dills) Drake [half], Lonnie Dills [half], Lawrence Ramsey Dills [half], Floy Birdell (Dills) Ramey [half] and Cary Calvin Dills [half]
Wife of
Benjamin Franklin Smith
— married
1 Jun 1882 in Macon, North Carolina, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 82
in Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Feb 2014
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Biography
Mary Modena Dills, daughter of Jeremiah Dills and Rachel Payne, was born on 28 October 1865 in Cartoogechaye, Macon County, North Carolina. She died from burns and heart problems as a result of accidentally setting her dress on fire on 16 December 1947 in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas. She is buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Greenville, Hunt County.[1]
Mary married Benjamin F Smith on 1 June 1882 at the home of her father J M Dills in Macon County, North Carolina.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #160315349 includes image of death certificate
- ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP9N-17N2 : 28 November 2018), B F Smith and M M Dills, 1 Jun 1882; citing Macon, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .
- "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3FV-WB7 : accessed 31 May 2020), Mary M Smith in household of Benjiman F Smith, Militia District 465, Anderson Maysville town (part), Banks, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 4, sheet 12B, family 222, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,179.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 May 2020), memorial page for Mary M Dills Smith (28 Oct 1865–16 Dec 1947), Find a Grave Memorial no. 160315349, citing Forest Park Cemetery, Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by John Armstrong (contributor 46567031) .
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Mary:
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~1.56%
David Butler
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23andMe
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~0.78%
Dawn Watson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JJ6244693 [compare], Ancestry member cadawaca
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~0.39%
Deni Harris :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A977210 [compare], Ancestry member deniharris
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