Sarah Grandfather will: His daughter Milley Tinsley was briefly married to Jonathan F. Franklin before she died in 1789. They had one child out of this marriage, Sarah Franklin Powell.
Will of John Tinsley, Madison County, Virginia, Dated September 10, 1797; Proved April 27, 1798: I lend to my beloved wife, Sarah Tinsley, all my estate after first paying my just debts . . . after the decease of my wife . . . whole estate to be sold at publick sale . . . money arising . . . to be equally divided amongst my children, William Tinsley, Sarah Falkner, Joanna Vernon, Mary Alexander, Agge Rucker, Betsy Rucker . . . my granddaughter, Sarah Frankling, daughter of Jonathan Frankling and Milly Frankling, I leave all the estate I have lent to her father and mother to her the said Sarah Frankling and nothing more of my estate to her . . . nominate my son, William Tinsley, Joseph Rucker and my beloved wife, Sarah Tinsley, executors . . . this 10th day of September 1797. In the presence of Francis Blunt, Sarah Vernon, William Rucker. At a court held 27th April 1798 proved and ordered to be recorded.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah 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 Sarah:
Franklin-8135 and Franklin-1171 appear to represent the same person because: same data. Please set the privacy setting to open Since Sarah born more than 200 years ago