Sarah W. McChesney[1][2][3][4] was born c1768 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland,[5] the only known child of Hugh and Joanna Hanan McChesney.
It is possible, but by no means certain that her first husband was an unknown Kimpston. Before 1786 she married her first cousin, another Hugh McChesney, born c 1757, perhaps in County Monaghan, Ireland, the third of six known children and the third of five sons of James McChesney, Sr., and Sarah Patterson. She bore him eleven children (three sons and eight daughters):
Hugh died in the 1820s and by 1850 Sarah was living with with daughter-in-law Juliana McChesney McChesney Hanby and family in Washington County, Virginia (Juliana was also her great niece by marriage[6]
In the 1850 census, Sarah is reported as unable to read and write.[7]
Sarah died after 1850 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.[8][9]
Accessed 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.
“Sarah's parents were Hugh and Ann McChesney. [C]hildren are Samuel,b. 1786; Nancy, b. 1789 m. ? Clark; Susanna K.,b. 1792, m. Thomas McChesney, b. 1778 & m. Thomas McChesney b. 1814; Sarah,b. 1795 m. perhaps Jacob Lathim; Robert,b. 1797; Elizabeth,b. 1799 m. James Lathim, m. ? Priestley; Mary,b. 1801 m. David Miller; Anna,b. 1803 m. Moses Gray; Margaret b. 1804 m. John Gray; Hugh. b. 1805.”
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DNA Connections
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: