Jessie Bianca (Everett) Sands (1893 - 1970)

Born 12 Oct 1893 in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John James Alexander Black — married 22 Jun 1912 (to 26 Sep 1919) in New Castle, Delaware, USA

Wife of Marshall McCuen Mullings — married 25 Jan 1923 (to about 1928) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Descendants

Died 24 Dec 1970 at age 77 in Cheverly, Prince George's, Maryland, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Lisa Mullings [send private message]

Biography

Jessie Bianca Everett was born on October 12, 1893 to Mary Elizabeth Slater and Frank Everett, the oldest of seven children.^[1] Her father and grandfather, Thomas Smith Everett, were well-known horse dealers. (Thomas Everett once stated that he "'owned, bought and sold more horses than any other individual in New Jersey.'")^[2]

Timeline

1893 - BIRTH Jessie Bianca Everett was born on 12 October 1893 to Frank Everett and Mary E. "Mamie" Slater in Trenton, New Jersey. ^[3]

1900 (AGE 7) Jessie lived on 127 East Hanover Street, Trenton, New Jersey with her maternal grandparents, parents, siblings and a number of boarders, including seven-year old Frank M. Hutchinson, and a servant.^[4]

1905 (AGE 11) Jessie lived at 219 E. Front Street, Trenton, New Jersey with her paternal grandfather, parents, siblings and two servants. ^[5]

1910 (AGE 16) Jessie lived at 219 East Front Street, Trenton, New Jersey with her paternal grandfather, parents, siblings and a servant. ^[6]

1911 - DEATH OF MOTHER (AGE 17) "Mamie" Slater, Jessie's mother, died. ^[7]

1912 - MARRIAGE TO BLACK (AGE 18) Jessie married John James Alexander Black in New Castle, Delaware.^[8]

1914 (AGE 20) John James Alexander Black of 15 West State St. and Jessie Bianca Everett of 219 East Front St. applied for a marriage license in Trenton, New Jersey. ^[9]

1914 - DEATH OF FATHER. (AGE 20) Frank Everett, Jessie's father, died. ^[10]

1918 - BIRTH OF SON MARSHALL (AGE 24) Marshall Everett Mullings, Jessie's son, was born in Washington D.C.

1919 - BLACK FILED FOR DIVORCE (AGE 25) John Black filed a petition for divorce against Jessie Black. ^[11]

1923 - MARRIAGE TO MULLINGS (AGE 29) Jessie married Marshall McCuen Mullings in Baltimore, Maryland. ^[12]

1927 - DIVORCE FILED AGAINST MULLINGS (AGE 33) Jessie filed for divorce from Marshall M. Mullings.^[13]

1930 - JESSIE MULLINGS LIVES NEAR JAMES O. SANDS (AGE 36) Jessie is listed as a landlady of a boarding house. A neighbor is James O. Sands, who would become her third husband.^[14]

1970 - DEATH (AGE 77) Jessie died on Christmas Eve 1970 in Cheverly, Maryland. ^{[15] [16]}

Rachel Chamberlain Slater & her granddaughter Jessie Everett

Research Notes

These research notes are being drafted in the first person to enable others to better understand the specific areas being researched about Jessie, and to help enable more effective collaboration. --Lisa Mullings

As I began researching Jessie's life, I was surprised to learn that she had been married three times, and divorced twice (see timeline below for details), which struck me as unusual.

It was only after my father took a Y-chromosome DNA test that I began researching my great-grandmother in earnest. A Y-chromosome DNA test ("Y-DNA test") is used to explore a man's direct father's-line ancestry. The Y chromosome, like the patrilineal surname, passes down virtually unchanged from father to son.^[17]

We were stunned to see that my father's Y-DNA test results did not resemble any of the Y-DNA tests of other Mullings males--including those of his first cousin. My dad's father, Marshall, had two brothers, and those brothers had sons, so a Y-DNA test from one of these men should have matched my father's. DNA testing also showed that my father and his first cousin only shared about half of the DNA expected for a first cousin--and all of their shared DNA matches were from Jessie's side of the family.

While my dad's cousin's test didn't match my dad's, it did match other Mullings' men's Y-DNA tests. After repeating my dad's test (and getting the same results), I began searching for my grandfather's biological father.

Thanks to the Y-DNA test my father took, we knew that his Y-DNA matches shared the surname "Hutchinson." Unfortunately, none of Jessie's three husbands had that name.

Sources

1. ↑ "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980" database, FamilySearch ( : 8 April 2016), Jessie B. Everett, 12 Oct 1893; citing Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 494,226.
2. ↑ "Everett's Funeral Will Be Thursday," Tues., 30 April 1935, Trenton Evening Times, Obituaries, p. 4. Trenton, N.J.
3. ↑ "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980" database, FamilySearch ( : 8 April 2016), Jessie B. Everett, 12 Oct 1893; citing Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 494,226.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9F2-CQM : accessed 28 June 2017), Jessie B Everett in household of Frank Everett, Precinct 1 Trenton city Ward 1, Mercer, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 56, sheet 1B, family 26, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,982.
5. ↑ "New Jersey State Census, 1905," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM4Q-H49 : 8 November 2014), Jessie Everett in household of Thomas S Everett, Mercer, New Jersey, United States; citing p. 13, line 16, Department of State, Trenton; FHL microfilm 1,688,614.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKB9-LJD : accessed 28 June 2017), Jessie B Everett in household of Thomas S Everett, Trenton Ward 1, Mercer, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 45, sheet 10B, family 230, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 896; FHL microfilm 1,374,909.
7. ↑ Find a Grave, Mary Elizabeth (Slater) Everett. [1] Memorial #38817563
8. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Marriage Index, 1901-1914 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Marriage Indexes. New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey. Marriage by Brides, D-G, Image 206.
9. ↑ Newspapers.com, Trenton Evening Times, 27 Jan 1914, Tue, Page 5.
10. ↑ /Find a Grave, Frank Everett, 1914; Burial, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States of America, Greenwood Cemetery; Memorial #37519979.
11. ↑ Classified Ad, Trenton Evening Times, 25 July 1919.
12. ↑ "Mrs. Mullings Asks Divorce," GenealogyBank, Evening Star (Washington, DC), Thursday, May 19, 1927, page 50.
13. ↑ "Mrs. Mullings Asks Divorce," GenealogyBank, Evening Star (Washington, DC), Thursday, May 19, 1927, page 50.
14. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X34R-N1G : accessed 14 January 2019), Jessie Mullings, Chillum, Prince George's, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 46, sheet 2A, line 14, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 878; FHL microfilm 2,340,613.
15. ↑ Certificate of Death: Jessie Mullings Sands. Filed 28 December 1970. Informant: Thomas V. Mullings [son of deceased]. State of Maryland Division of Vital Records, Baltimore, Maryland.
16. ↑ Find a Grave, Jessie Bianca Everett Sands; Memorial #113540946.
17. ↑ See "Y chromosome DNA tests," International Society of Genetic Genealogy Wiki, last modified December 2016.