Born in Putnam County, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Bray
and Scinthia Ann (Mills) Bray
Sister of
William Riley Bray and John M Bray
Wife of
Joshua Monroe Sherrill
— married
23 Nov 1851 in White, Tennessee, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth Ann (Sherrill) Dunn, William Jordan Sherrell, John Nelson Sherrell, Calvin Anderson Sherrell, Riley Monroe Sherrell, Eliza Jane (Sherrell) Dunn, Margaret C Sherrell, Dorcey (Sherrell) Howell and Barcelona Dee (Sherrell) Massey
Died
at about age 32
in Putnam, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Mar 2014
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Biography
Martha Polly Bray (AKA Louisa Eliza Martha Bray Sherrell) was born in about 1838 in Tennessee.
She married Joshua Sherrill on November 23, 1851, in White, Tennessee,[1] with whom she had seven children.
Death
She died July 1870 in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.[2] Find A Grave: Memorial #199196229
Sources
- ↑ "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDQ1-38S: 8 December 2014), Joshua Sherrell and Martha P. Bray, 23 Nov 1851; citing White, Tennessee, reference; FHL microfilm 507,886.
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLM2-P4W
- 1860 U.S. Census
- 1870 U.S. Census
- 1880 U.S. Census
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DNA Connections
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:
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:
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Geraldine (Elrod) Pollard 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Pollardg
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Kenneth Shelton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member rkshelton
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Robert Brown :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member robert_f_brown71
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B636614
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Myrtle Mandane Ennis :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Julie Nash :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Sara (Walker) Anderson :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member SaraWalkerAnderson
-
~0.78%
Hugh Mills :
AncestryDNA
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