"Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNXL-LFF : 4 December 2014), Isaac Denton Smith and Martha Jane Bowers, 01 Jun 1870; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 102, Overton, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD7J-1GX : 15 January 2022), Martha Smith in household of Denton Smith, Civil District 6, Jackson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFQ-BXP : accessed 9 March 2022), Martha J Smith in household of Fount Smith, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 78, sheet 15A, family 312, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1516; FHL microfilm 1,375,529.
"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSF9-19N : 1 March 2021), Martha Jane Smith, 14 May 1927; Death, Putnam, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
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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: